{"id":2759,"date":"2011-12-23T08:24:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T13:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/?p=2759"},"modified":"2020-07-21T23:54:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T03:54:50","slug":"beaded-wire-ornament-hanger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/being-crafty\/beaded-wire-ornament-hanger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make a beaded wire ornament hook | DIY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2835\" title=\"beaded wire ornament hangers\" alt=\"beaded wire ornament hangers\" src=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/beaded-wire-christmas-ornament-hangers1.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/beaded-wire-christmas-ornament-hangers1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/beaded-wire-christmas-ornament-hangers1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I stopped in at my parents&#8217; house the other day and was looking at their Christmas ornaments, and noticed that some of them were hanging on some fancy schmancy beaded wire hangers. \u00a0And all I could think was, &#8220;WHY HAVEN&#8217;T I DONE THIS BEFORE?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So now I&#8217;ve made a couple, and it literally took me 5 minutes. I know this isn&#8217;t exactly an <em>ornament<\/em>, but&#8230;it still kind of fits. \u00a0Here&#8217;s how to do it:<\/p>\n<p>You need:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"18 guage silver jewelry wire\" href=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/18-guage-jewelry-wire-silver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">18\u00a0Gauge\u00a0Wire<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Some pretty beads (make sure the holes are large enough to fit on the wire)<\/li>\n<li>Needle nose\u00a0pliers<\/li>\n<li>Something circular that you can use to curl the wire. I just used the cap of my glue bottle, which worked perfectly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Thread the beads you&#8217;d like onto a length of wire&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2827\" title=\"thread beads onto wire\" alt=\"thread beads onto wire\" src=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/thread-beads-onto-wire1.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/thread-beads-onto-wire1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/thread-beads-onto-wire1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<div>And then bend the wire right before and after the beads, in opposite directions from each other&#8230; (It&#8217;s very hard to straighten the wire back out once it&#8217;s bent, so be careful. I wasn&#8217;t&#8230;oops.)<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2761\" title=\"bend the wire after beads\" alt=\"bend the wire after beads\" src=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/bend-wire-after-beads.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/bend-wire-after-beads.jpg 650w, https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/bend-wire-after-beads-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Now wrap the wire back around whatever circular object you are using, to curl it into the shape you want&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2766\" title=\"curl wire for ornament hook\" alt=\"curl wire for ornament hook\" src=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/curl-wire-for-ornament-hanger.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/curl-wire-for-ornament-hanger.jpg 650w, https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/curl-wire-for-ornament-hanger-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the top of the hanger, make just a simple hook shape, so that it will be easy to hang on the tree. (I also curled the very end of the wire using the tip of my pliers.) For the bottom though, you can get a little fancier.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2767\" title=\"make a beaded wire ornament hanger\" alt=\"make a beaded wire ornament hanger\" src=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/make-a-beaded-wire-ornament-hanger.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/make-a-beaded-wire-ornament-hanger.jpg 650w, https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/make-a-beaded-wire-ornament-hanger-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that easy? I made another hook in an S shape, which was even quicker:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2773\" title=\"beaded wire christmas ornament hooks\" alt=\"beaded wire christmas ornament hooks\" src=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/beaded-wire-christmas-ornament-hangers.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/beaded-wire-christmas-ornament-hangers.jpg 650w, https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/beaded-wire-christmas-ornament-hangers-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How cute is that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped in at my parents&#8217; house the other day and was looking at their Christmas ornaments, and noticed that some of them were hanging on some fancy schmancy beaded wire hangers. \u00a0And all I could think was, &#8220;WHY HAVEN&#8217;T I DONE THIS BEFORE?&#8221; So now I&#8217;ve made a couple, and it literally took me&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[330,186,178],"class_list":["post-2759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-being-crafty","tag-free-tutorials","tag-ornament-hangers","tag-ornaments-to-make"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}