Vintage Clip-on Earring turned Cocktail Ring

My husband and I visited South Hampton, Ontario last summer with his family and absolutely fell in love with its charming downtown. During the summer months, the town comes to life on Thursday nights with an antique car show and used jewellery sale. These two events really create a festive vibe in the downtown core. It is lovely to see everyone taking in the old cars and perusing the jewelry, while the sun sets over the water. The jewelry sale is amazing. There are literally tables and tables of unique and vintage jewelry pieces and what makes the sale even sweeter is that all the proceeds go to charity.

I ended up purchasing three pairs of vintage clip on earrings at the sale with plans to re-purpose them into some new jewellery pieces. I decided to break up one of the pairs and create a cocktail ring – check out my instructions below on how to create your own custom cocktail ring!

• You will need:
• 1 ring base, I purchased mine in the craft section of my local superstore but almost any ring will do
• 1 earring
• Glue
• Pliers or wire cutters to remove the clip-on back

Step 1

Remove the clip-on back from the earring.

Step 2

Apply some glue to the back of the earring and to the base of the ring.

Step 3

Stick the earring onto your ring base and press the two together and TA-DA – you just made a custom cocktail ring!

Note: you may need to hold the two pieces together for a minute or two to allow the glue to set.