Elastic Jewelry Rings

You can never have enough jewelry. You can never have enough jewelry, and you can also never have enough of what you’ve made by hand. It’s different. Whatever you make yourself, especially if you’re following an idea and not a template, is a part of you personified into your creations. You can make anything. 

The most fun part?

Finding ways to use what could be garbage, but isn’t, and does make you something you’d love to wear until it falls apart. Some things last longer than you think.

For me, it started off as a ring I’d kept on my ring finger to remind myself that waiting for myself to find or have what I need, and then fall in love, is okay. It started off as a reminder that I deserve to love myself before loving anyone else. So, I created an elastic ring and stuck it on my ring finger. Someday, I’ll trade it for an empty ring finger, or for something that will last longer.

Until then, I have the elastic ring on my finger, and I realized that I could make as many of them as I wanted, and wear them on other fingers. These pieces of jewelry could adorn any of my other fingers, and even replace the one on my ring finger sometimes when I get bored of wearing the same thing on repeat.

All you need is some elastic cord. Wrap it around your finger to see how big or how small you want it to be, tie it off, snip off the ends, and see how it works and looks! 

My original used two different types of string — one very stretchy, one not so much. One day, I found a piece of elastic that I didn’t want to throw away. I wanted to use it. There are many, many things you can make out of elastic, so throwing out a necessary supply didn’t make sense. It was also one of those days where I hadn’t really made anything for a while. My brain was finally in the right place to be able to make whatever I wanted to. And so, the several rings became created.

After making them, I realized they were all the same color. That’s where paint mixed with a little bit of Mod Podge comes in. All you have to do is just dab whatever color you want on, and you have a ring of whatever color you want on whatever stretchy string you want that’s the size you need it.

Do they look homemade? Yes, they do, for the most part. But, that’s what’s so much fun about them! The fact that you’re wearing jewelry people can tell you made, but that also looks so cool when you wear it. Sometimes, letting people know you made something just by it existing allows you to go, “Yeah, I did make this.”

As somebody who’s always been a creative and has been bullied throughout every year of school since I was a little kid, I can honestly say, allowing yourself to exist outside of the box is the biggest gift you can give yourself. If you make something you love, allow yourself to love it. You made it. Loving something you made is a part of existing outside of that box. Don’t let anyone ever tell you otherwise. Art is art, and making art makes you be able to be yourself.

So, with these rings that obviously look homemade, allow them to look homemade.

It’s one of the biggest ways to stand up for yourself and your art. And, they’re fun, easy, and look really, really cool. 

Don’t forget: you can also add beads or fancy knotwork if you like!