How to Make Lantern-Like Ball Earrings with Stuffed Mesh Beads

This year the Valentine’s Day bumped into Chinese lantern festival, which just happed 2 weeks ago. Take your time and make the lantern-like ball earrings with following instructions.

Necessities for lantern earrings:

Orange  mesh wire  beads
8mm orange agate beads
Blue shell beads
Earring hooks
Head pins
Round nose plier
Flat nose plier
Wire cutter

How to make ball earrings with mesh beads:

Step 1: slide glass bead and mesh bead onto head pin;

Step 2: stuff shell beads into the mesh bead;

Step 3: slide another glass bead onto pin and make a wire wrapped loop with rest pin;

Step 4: attach earring hook onto the ball dangle.

Finally the lantern-like ball earrings look like this:

Tada! “how to make ball earrings” ceases here. If you had given her a pair of lantern earrings on that festival, she might be amazed by your knowledge about Chinese traditional holidays.