monopoly earrings

Upcoming exam brings the promise of procrastination and therefore crafting. I made these babies today.

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Monopoly earrings, ladies and gents! The perfect solution for what to do with the Travel Monopoly set that's no longer in its box (but scattered all over the inside of a chest of drawers).

There's no way I'd ever be able to sell anything like this because of that annoying thing they call copyright, which is a shame because I could probably develop it into something quite good.

The money - two little Monopoly twenties - were trimmed and stuck onto white card, then "laminated" with sticky-backed plastic. An actual laminator would probably work quite well. Then, using a large pin (heated over a tealight) and a pair of pliers, I poked holes in the playing pieces/houses/hotels. I found it's actually neater to poke holes through from the back of the pieces. Then just pop them on jump rings and wah-lahhh! Your very own Mini Monopoly earrings.

I think I need to start investing in more travel board games, this could be the start of something good, people!

Some other plastic toys I've turned into jewellery:

Skittles from a cracker = chandelier earrings.

Compass pendant! It's a tiny little plastic compass, and yes it really does point North...

My personal favourite, a tiny tiny dinosaur on a jump ring. I felt bad poking a hole through his head. That's a 7mm diameter jump ring, for an idea of the scale.

Domino pendant. This one is glued to the pendant hook. I'm planning to make some matching earrings too, as I have quite a few of these - they also came out of a cracker.