Button Earrings

Last Saturday, I went to JoAnn's armed with my too-good-to-be-true 80% off any one regular-priced item coupon.
I was SOOO excited to finally buy the fabric for my living room curtains at 80% off!

Yeah. Literally, too good to be true. Practically EVERYTHING was on sale, meaning my coupon got used on fusible interfacing that only cost $2 a yard to begin with.
She's a sneaky one, that JoAnn.

So since I couldn't make my curtains after all, I decided to finally do a cheap project I've had on my list for awhile, that I saw in this post from Trey & Lucy, in my craft blog list.

Earrings made from buttons!

I don't know about you, but when I look through the button aisle, I'm filled with longing, because they have some beautiful, adorable ones, yet I'm not creative enough to know what to do with them...nor do I have time enough to be crafting all day long. So this was a great solution!

Here are the buttons I chose, with a certain shirt in mind to wear them with.
(My camera's not so great. They're even prettier than they look!)

You'll need some of these post pads with butterfly shanks (aka "earring backs").
I believe the original price of this pack of 8 sets was something like $1.59.
Even I can afford that! :)

Tanya, who originally did this, used a button shank remover for taking off the backs of the buttons. If you want to make these a lot, consider getting one.

I used pliers, which worked ridiculously well for this first set. However, the second set was a long, slow, smelly process (as I had to melt them with a lighter multiple times before trying to pry them off).

Place a dab of hot glue (or something stronger, if you like) on the post pad, and adhere it to the button.

That's it! Voila, you have new earrings!

(Yeah, mine are a little big. Any opinions? Should I make them danglies instead?)

Look out for the next button sale and use it to add to your jewelry collection! Enjoy!