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Photograph: Rachel Essex</p> </div> <p>I started making jewellery when I inherited my Romanian grandmother's sewing box. Jewellery-making had been a hobby of hers, and it contained her tools as well as broken necklaces, lengths of chain, old charms, semi-precious beads and tiny Russian dolls. Wishing to give these treasures a new lease of life, I incorporated them into pieces for friends. </p><p>This grew into a commercial enterprise, but it is fantastic to be able to make pieces for myself, too, as I come across vintage bits and pieces that are crying out to be recycled. A Bakelite cherry zip pull becomes a pendant; some 1920s appliquéd flowers are turned into a brooch. </p><p>Nowadays, I can choose whether to trawl car boot fairs or find things without ever leaving the house by scouring the internet. For contemporary components, I sometimes go to the jewellery shops of Hatton Garden in London, but most bead and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090801125332/http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/craft">craft</a> suppliers have websites. </p><p>The great thing about these cluster earrings is that the same process can be used to make any number of different styles, depending on what beads and chain you have available. I have used a gold chain for these ones, plus vintage beads in three sizes, corrugated bead caps, and semi-precious turquoise beads that have been dyed pink.</p><h2>What you need</h2><p>Round-nosed pliers, flat-nosed pliers and a pair of wire cutters<br/>Some beads, bead caps and/or charms of your choice<br/>An equivalent number of headpins<br/>One pair of ear wires<br/>A short length of chain, perhaps from a broken bracelet or bought from a craft shop, that your headpins can be easily threaded through</p><h2>What to do</h2><p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090801125332/http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gallery/2009/jul/07/making-earrings-guide?picture=349888302">Follow our step-by-step picture instructions for more guidance</a></p><p><strong>1. </strong>Cut two lengths of chain (mine were 6cm.) Your eventual earrings will be half whatever length you choose, plus your beads.</p><p><strong>2. </strong>Thread a headpin through your first bead and bend it at a right angle. Use your wire cutters to cut the end off the headpin, leaving enough wire to make a loop at the top of your bead. Use round pliers to make an open loop and thread it onto one link of your first length of chain. Use your flat pliers to then close the loop. </p><p><strong>3. </strong>Continue doing this until your chain has enough beads to look nicely crowded when you double it up, holding the two ends together. </p><p><strong>4. </strong>Do the same with your second length of chain. You can choose whether to make a symmetrical pair or not. I used exactly the same beads and bead caps on each earring and attached each bead to the same link of the chain (eg corrugated bead cap on link three, pink bead on link four, etc).</p><p><strong>5. </strong>Finally, use round pliers to open up the loop at the bottom of your ear wire, thread the two end links of your chain onto it and use flat pliers to close it. Repeat with the other earring. </p><p><strong>6. </strong>Well done! 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