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Spider Web EarringsThese spider web earrings are a fun and easy to put together. They are perfect to wear on Halloween night or to give away as a gift. The only thing that is a little difficult is putting together the little spider, as he is so small it takes some dexterity in your hands to glue him together. I used some tweezers to move his parts around and did just fine. These Halloween earrings look even better in person, they shimmer and are quite eerie. You will get plenty of comments on these, wait until you tell people you made them yourself!  Things Needed: Almost everything you need to make the spider web earrings can be bought here (they offer free shipping too!): Artbeads.com - Your online bead store
1. Begin the spider web earrings by opening up the wine charm rings. Thread on black seed beads all the way around the ring. At the end, add on a jump ring. Then, close up the wine charm ring. The charm rings I bought required you to bend up the one end of the loop slightly with jewelry pliers and insert it into a tiny hole on the other end to secure.     2. Next, cut off about one foot of embroidery floss and unravel it until you have single strands. Thread a single strand of black floss through your needle. Then, wrap this thread around the loop ring, in between two of the seed beads. Tie a knot to secure the thread, and cut off the excess as close as you can to the loop ring.   3. Begin to make the spider web by pulling the thread across the ring loop, in various patterns. Try not to always go directly across the middle, or the spider web will look too "perfect". When the thread reaches the other side, wrap it between the seed beads, and around once to secure. The seed beads keep the floss in place nicely. When you are finished threading, tie the the floss off in a knot between two seed beads, and cut off the excess and close as you can to the ring loop to make it look nice and neat.    4. The next step for the
spider web earrings is
optional, but I really recommend it. Give the front and back
of the spider web loop earring a coat of silver glitter spray paint.
Let it dry between doing the front and back sides.
It really gives it some extra sparkle! 5. Now to finish off the spider web earrings you need to make the spider. First, gather up your parts. The two pom poms will be the spider's body. Cut a tiny piece of black card stock in a small rectangle. You can see the small rectangle in the photo below, to the far left. You don't want the length to be any longer than the width of the two pom pom's side by side (in my case, slightly smaller than 1 cm). The card stock's purpose is to be the base of the spider to glue the parts to, but you don't want to see it in the final product. Then, using your tweezers or jewelry pliers, pry off four staples from a length of standard staples you would load into your desk stapler. These will be the legs.  6. Make your spider on
top of a sheet of wax paper or parchment paper, so it the glue oozes,
you can carefully peel him off safely. Begin by adding a drop
of glue to the card stock. You may want to use tweezers here
to hold down the tiny card stock so it doesn't stick to your glue tip!
Then, glue on two staples across this card stock, in an "x"
pattern, as shown below. Use your tweezers to help
place the staples.  7. Add another drop of
glue on top of the staples, where they meet at an "x". Then, place
another two staples on top of the previous two. Follow the
photos below for help.   8. Add another drop of glue on top of all the staples, and then place the two black pom poms on top of everything to be the spider's body. Use your tweezers for help. Allow this to dry very well. When dry, you can use the head of a pin or a toothpick, dipped in some white paint, to add two tiny eyes, if desired.  9. When you are sure the
spider is nice and dry, thread your needle with another length of one
ply black embroidery floss. At the top of the spider's head,
insert your needle through the head width wise. Try to get
deep enough in the pom pom so the thread will be secure and will not
pull out. Then pull your thread through, and make a knot. Cut
off the trailing end of the floss as close as possible to the spider's
head.   10. To attach the spider to the spider web earrings, wrap the floss around the bottom of the loop, in between two seed beads. Determine how far you want the spider to dangle from the loop and adjust the floss length as necessary (for my earrings the spider hangs 1 cm below the loop). Once the length is determined, secure this by wrapping the thread around the ring loop one more time (in between the seed beads again) to secure it well, then bring the thread back down towards the spider. As you bring the tread back down to the spider, wrap it around the floss a few times. This is done to make it look like only one thread holding the spider instead of two.   11. Finally, to secure to the spider, you want to thread your needle through the spider head once again. Then make a square knot and cut off any excess.  12. The spider web
earrings are almost done! Add a second jump
loop to the first jump loop, using some jewelry pliers or tweezers if
necessary. Then add on the French hook earrings.
Your spider web earrings are now ready to wear! 
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