‘Beat the High Street’ challenge

Each month we will be setting ourselves a ‘Beat the High Street’ challenge.  The challenge will be to select jewellery from popular high street stores and make our own version for less.

It’s a little known fact that making your own jewellery can be much cheaper than buying from big high street stores. Little independent stores such as ourselves will never be as cheap as Primark, but we can guarantee your designs will be unique, higher quality and still affordable. 

The necklace we made has plenty of metal spikes, all attach with jump rings to plated chain.  The necklace we found in Urban Outfitters was very light and made of plastic; this necklace has weight to it so it hangs better and made out of metal it looks more expensive.

It is so simple to make, you could add as many or as little spikes as you wanted, that is the beauty of making your own jewellery you can have it exactly how you want!

Here are the products we have used:

35mm Spike Charm
Plated Chain
Trigger/Lobster Clasps
Extension Chains
Jump/Split Rings