Make Your Own Feather Jewelry!

[Astrid660]

Items I use:

hot glue gun
hair pin of some sort
3-4 medium length feathers
a piece of a bracelet/necklace or anything that matches and can cover where the feathers are glued to the clip. I use little butterflies from the dollar store, or random pieces of accessories I find in my jewelry box.



for the chopstick hair clips, I put small dots of glue on the stick while wrapping the ribbon around, and then choose a big bead and 3-4 feathers that match.


for the earrings I use:

small piece of fishing line (doubled over through the hook)
2 matching beads and 2-4 feathers
hot glue
trim fishing line ends close to the feather afterwards.


Feather Fans

Grab a popsicle stick, enough string to wrap it with, and a lot of molted wing/tail feathers. Glue all the feathers in place at the top of the stick. It helps to lay them out first. Wrap the string most of the way up the stick, covering up until the feathers and using glue to hold it in place along the way. I do a criss cross on the back with the string, as you can't keep wrapping it past a certain point. Then I grab something to put on the front, like a pin, ribbon, or fancy button.

Hope this helps someone in their craft endeavors!

[angelicarboreals]

Wow, you shouldn't give your secrets away like that, you could be making money from these ideas!!!!!

[Astrid660]

I go to local craft markets. I do make money from them. I mean, not much, but I charge a reasonable price for them. If someone else wants to make earrings and make money in their town, more power to them

[Astrid660]

this is not my idea originally, I have googled how to make them in the past . Here's a link to a thorough 'how to make feather earrings' site: Carotte & Lychee: How to make feather earrings

[LovelySydney]

thats awesome!!! I think my birds have feathers that are too small.

[MissV]

Sydney - you could pair up the smal feathers and make fluffy bunches!

Looove those earrings, and the hairsticks (chopsticks) are a fantastic idea! I'm so making those!


One of my best friends makes jewelry and accesories out of animal bones (yes, all of them have died from natural causes) and I've promised her feathers...so I'll be divying them up now so I can keep some for projects. ^^

[jenniferag]

Holy crapola! :) Those are really good ideas! I never think of anything creative so I love having people who do!!!

I'm going to make a pen for my work with my babies feathers!!

[Astrid660]

^sounds great! yay I inspired people to get crafting.

[prettypenguin]

Feather jewelry is getting pretty popular around here. We save all of the non fluff feathers- maybe I'll make hair stuff!

[Raha]

Fabulous! Thanks for the info!