At any party, especially at Christmas, it is easy to get carried away. As the food, wine and merriment begin to flow, it is even easier to lose track of which glass belongs to whom.
It is also tradition for dinner party hosts and hostesses to offer their guests a small favor. By making your own wine glass charms you can prevent any glass-related confusion and give your guests a classy little gift.
Here is what you will need:
- 22mm diameter memory wire rings
- Decorative beads or charms
- Magnetic jewelry clasps
- Jewelry wire cutters
How To Make Wine Glass Charms
Step One
Firstly you will need to take your memory wire rings, memory wire is really useful as it is generally supplied already in rings and keeps its shape well.
For our wine glass charms, we are using 22mm diameter rings, which you can get in coils of ten rings for just over £1.00 from Beads Direct. Cut one complete ring off of the coil.
Step Two
Take one side of a magnetic jewelry clasp and feed this onto one end of the ring with the larger diameter facing the end of the open end of the ring.
Step Three
Use some needle nose jewelry pliers to bend the end of the ring back on itself, preventing the first part of the clasp from coming off.
Step Four
Add beads or charms to the ring to personalize the design. It is a good idea to make each one different so that your guests can use them to tell their glasses apart.
Step Five
Add the second part of the jewelry clasp onto the other end of the ring, again with the wider hole pointing towards the other part of the clasp, and bend the end back on itself using your pliers
Step Six
And voila! The two parts of the magnetic clasp will attract together allowing your guests to quickly and easily attach and detach their charms from their glass. Cheers!
