I love Steampunk!

I am pretty sure I say this about every single pair of earrings I make but I think I have a new favourite. I got a little bag of watch parts and made this new range of earrings which is already up on Etsy. I first got into and inspired by steampunk about a year ago through some friends and my love of sci-fi. I started to explore the style and these earrings, along with many other clothes and jewellery purchases of my own are what resulted.

The first pair that I created for myself as a bit of an experiment, using the first bag of parts I got. With one earring as bunch of cogs and the other the main frame of the watch that I have since found is a treat to get within a bag of parts.

The the cogs and other parts are incredibly tiny and delicate, perfect to turn into light weight earrings. I love creating so much that I created a whole section within my Etsy shop from them, which you can find here! 

To begin with I made simple single cog studs and then went onto a long chain going from the biggest to the tiniest of watch parts. I used a mixture of finding colours to match the different watch part colours which also allows them to be diverse enough to go with both silver and gold jewellery. I can see myself making many many more of these earrings, with other parts like clock hands to play with.