Wire Olympic Rings

2012 London Olympic Games will start today. It's the biggest world event in 2012.       I am looking forward to the Games and will watch on TV.

Olympic rings is the symbol of Olympic Games.

"The five Olympic rings represent the five continents involved in the Olympics and were designed in 1912, adopted in June 1914 and debuted at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics." ----from Wikipedia

It's for fun. The wire Olympic rings consist of five colorful jump rings. They are blue, yellow, black, green, and red from left to right.

The way we unite.

If you repeat the five color jumps rings several times, you get a bracelet.

Turning the broken ear hook into a finding

Do not just throw your broken jewelry parts away. If you have the sense of "Do it yourself.", you can turn broken objects into useful objects easily.

Even you do not have ideas what to do with broken parts. If the jewelry are made of precious metal, you can sell them to precious metal merchants at good price by collecting them.

The ear hook is broken. Use round nose pliers to round the wire, and get a jump ring.

The broken ear hook

Customized jewelry findings: close jump rings

Handmade findings is unique but time-consuming. When it comes to sell or buy crafts or jewelry, artisans will not sell items that take much time to make. Because time is precious, adding up time value, prices will be too high to sell.

If you do want something special, you might have to do it yourself.

Use one piece of wire to make close jump rings.

It's wrapping not twisting.

close jump rings

close jump rings

In the picture, a 18 gauge wire flower is in the left for comparison.