I love having things that other people don’t so that we don’t all look the same, so when it comes to earrings I tend not to buy from high street places. (also because spending 15 pound on a pair is out of my budget) A simple solution could be buying from charity or vintage shops but again this could be expensive, especially if you’re like me and you don’t do matching. So here’s a good way to have different, individual earrings that no-one else will have.
All you need is a small-ish plain stud - you can get them cheap from anywhere. Then take either an old necklace or bracelet with charms on - one that you don’t wear. Twist the charm until it breaks from the necklace etc but MAKE SURE it still has the loop that it was attached with. Simply put the stud through the hole at the top of the charm, put it through your ear and attach the back and you’re done! You’ve made a plain stud into an original creation J Here are some of the pendants that I’ve detached from their original form and used for earrings.
And it doesn’t even need to be something from a necklace or a bracelet, you can use anything you find lying around.
My friend found this in a classroom in college and told me to make it into a necklace, but I have one from Paris so thought I’d make it into an earring - obviously I washed it first!
This is a stud from a cricket shoe that an ex boyfriend gave me when it came off. I twisted the ring off an old earring, threaded it through the hole and clasped it together again with pliers. I don’t think he expected me to do anything with it but, at the time, it was sentimental because it was a little bit of him.
This is actually a belly bar charm without the belly bar. I loved how cute and tacky it was and it broke when my friend was giving me a piggy back - so I kept it and recycled it, I wasn’t going to pay 12 pound for jewelry and not use it in one way or another! 
I have a massive obsession with snakes and love snake jewelry. This snake pendant I bought in Ventamilia, Italy, from a market. Because it’s just a pendant I sometimes wear it on a black string but also can attach it to this earring by opening and resealing the metal loop with pliers. (Be careful of doing this too often as it can weaken the metal and can eventually snap.)
Finally, me and my friends love dressing up and tend to go all out, so here’s a couple of themed earrings I made for recent parties. Nowadays feather earrings are very accessible, but if you don’t have the time or the money before a tribal or festival style party, you can get some normal feathers (best not to get them from actual birds) and used something to hold them together at the top - some earrings have a small tube type thing with the earring on the end that you could rip off at slide the ends of the feathers in. It can be tricky but with a bit of fiddling and creativity you can have some festival style earrings no one else does! We recently had a Hawaiian party and none of my flower earrings were extravagant enough. So I scoured my draw of crap and found a phone charm flower that my Auntie and Uncle bought from Bali. Because it doesn’t fit on my phone I cut the elastic off and slotted a flower stud through the hole in the charm. It looked appropriately Hawaiian, I’d recycled something foreign and pretty and again, no one else had the same.
