Mom's Bird Earrings

Supplies: (I used all silver, keep the metal uniform)
-2 french ear wires
-2 jump rings
-2 Swarvoski channel set links, in crystal, 60 mm
-2 bird charms
(also, you will need chain-nose pliers)

Here are all of the supplies together

Assembly:
1.  Open earring wire by using chain-nose pliers

This is what the earring will look like once you bend open the wire.  To do this, look closely at the earring wire, and you will see a break in the wire.  Bend this open.

2.  Slide on one Swarovski link onto ear wire

3.  Close the ear wire with pliers by bending the wire loop back into its original position.

4.  Bend open jump ring, slide on channel/ear wire and bird charm.

5.  Bend close the jump ring.  Repeat these steps to finish the other earring.  Voilá!

Simple, but unique!

A wire-wrapped ring

Here is another wire-wrapped ring that I have made.  You make this ring in a similar manner to my "how to" on wire wrapped rings as mentioned in a previous blog, but add a few tweaks.  First, you will need a lot more wire, since it will be wrapped more than the ring mentioned in the blog.  Make sure when you anchor the stone, one side should be significantly longer.  You will be using the long end to wrap around the entirety of the ring (this is step 6 in the "how to" blog), and wrapping up and around the stone, ending with a decorative coil achieved by bending the tip of the wire, then using chain-nose pliers to hold the wire while you twist the wire into the coil.  This ring has quite a high profile.  I added a 5 or so inch long wire to the other side of the coil to even out the wrapping (to do this, I bent the end of the wire around the wire coming out of the stone, then tightly wrapped the wire around the ring to match the other side).  Voilá!