How to… Make a Bird Nest Necklace
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Another lovely How To Guest Post for you this week – Bird Nest Necklaces – or jewellery for beginners as I like to think of it!! I love this wonderfully pretty guest post from Sarah. Sarah has a wonderful blog called Sarah Ortega with lots of wonderful photographs but also lots of great DIY and craft ideas.. always worth a good nosey around. I particularly like the “jewellery display frame” idea she has – so quirk and fun and added it to Pinterest! I also love her homemade magnets… and they are SO on my very long to do list!
I have been seeing a lot of bird nest jewelry around lately. They are beautiful and I love the trend so I thought I would try making my own. These turned out to be really easy to make and require just a few simple supplies. This necklace would make a lovely Mother’s day gift, which just happens to be coming up this weekend!
What you’ll need:
- Jewelry wire (I prefer using a 24 gage because it is easier to manipulate but the 20 gage can work well too with the help of some round nose pliers)
- pearls or glass beads
- necklace chain
- jump ring and a clasp
Select the beads you want, string them onto your wire and arrange them as you’d like.
then simply wrap the wire around the beads
wrap some wire in the space between each bead (I like the look of three loops but you could just do one or two if you prefer)
this is what the back looked like. (In the other necklaces I attached a jump ring but on this one I just formed a loop with the wire.)
and this is what you end up with 
I love how each one is so different
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love it! Sharing it!
Oooh lovely! Thank you!!!
Pinning it! So simple and beautiful!
Aah fab, thank you! And yes, I think it is a stunning Guest post!
I love doing wirework and these designs are gorgeous, will definitely be giving it a go. Thanks
I love it too! Absolutely beautiful!
So cool! I’ve always wondered how these were made. Wonderful tute!
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Donna
Oh thank you for the Share!!!
much appreciated!
OOOOOH I love these thanks so much for the tutorial, can’t wait to try it!
These are so beautiful. I’m really really impressed.
Stunning photography too. Thanks for sharing x
Those are so pretty! How hard would it be to make earrings like this?
These are beautiful! Can’t wait to make them as gifts for Christmas
thanks for sharing!
Ooh fabulous! Have lots of fun!
These are gorgeous! What a clever idea!
love love love these pendants, maybe it’s finally time for me to make some! thanks for sharing on Craft schooling Sunday!
Wow, I had no idea they so easy to make. I just might to take a crack at those this weekend. Thanks!
Have fun! And would love to see your results!
Thanks for the tutorial. I have been wanting to make one of these for a while (I saw them on the web months ago and couldn’t remember where I saw it when I next wanted it).
Ooh how fabulous that Sarah agreed to guest post it here then! Yay!
Just beautiful I love it.
You inspire me to give this a try.
Thanks for the tutorial.
Love it! Is there any way you can make ear rings to match it ?
I would have thought so – maybe stick them on an earring “backing”?
They’re great, would love a broach to match!