Morse Code Earrings

     These asymmetric earrings make a statement - literally!  I used the seed beads to denote the dots and the tube-shaped beads for the dashes.  The big beads at the center of each earring are also dots, made larger to distinguish them as a new letter.  See if you can figure out what these ones say (there's a typo in the first earring; there should be one fewer dots in the first letter), and have fun coding your own jewelry.

Materials:

*Two different types of beads, one to denote dots and the other dashes

*Head pins

*Ear wires

*Round nosed pliers

*Needle nosed pliers

*Wire cutters

Directions:

*Pick a short message to encode.  Each of the earrings I made spells out one three-letter word.

*Translate your message into Morse code.

*Add beads to a head pin to spell out your message.  If you want your message to read vertically from top to bottom, you'll have to put the beads on in the reverse order in which you would read them.  For example, if your message ends with the letter "A," which is dot dash, you'll want to put the dash bead on first and then the dot.

*Cut off all but about 1/4" of excess pin.  Curl the tops of the head pins using round nosed pliers and clamp onto the ear wires using needle nosed pliers.