I wanted to make a pair of earrings with some things I had, but didn't have appropriate ear wires to go along, and I couldn't find them at the store. Silver, gun metal, copper, gold--nothing really goes with natural brass like itself. And I wasn't running around town all day looking for them.
Since it rained all day my dog acted like a little kid, wanting me to entertain her. Nothing that an occasional play session couldn't help, though. She discovered she liked to sit at my fidgeting feet under the dining room table while I was hunched over oddly-shaped wires and stick her nose out from under the tablecloth at me, eyes hidden. I think it was some form of canine hide-and-seek.
Patting the dog with one hand, and using needle nosed and flat nosed pliers with the other two, (huh?) I gently bent 22 gauge wire into an ear hook shape, making an eye and then wrapping the excess around the base of the eye at least three times, snipping off the little bit of leftover.
I filed the rough cut edges until they were nice and smooth. Nobody wants sharp wires jabbed into their lobes or anything else.
Of course I made two of them, and worked to get them both the same. Not microscopic the same, but certainly enough that someone looking at them together would likely say, "Yep, they're the same, all right."
Now I was able to use those pretty light color turquoise beads and natural brass bead caps and pretty little yellow sparkle beads to make a bona fide pair of earrings.
It's neat how sometimes something you make turns out a little different than you pictured, but you like it just the same. I was thinking these earrings would be good winter ones. The turquoise beads in those beads caps ended up reminding me of little robin's eggs. Maybe it's good to wear them in winter and be reminded of the warm days to come?
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