Wild, Weird Jewelry

In celebration of April Fool’s Day, I bring you a selection of some of handmade jewelry’s wildest, weirdest designs. Compiling this list was way more fun than trying to pull a prank like declaring “I’m never blogging again!”. As if that would ever happen.

I started by searching "weird jewelry" on Etsy, and after finding more than a few interesting themes, I ended up going off on a keyword

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