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We found a strand of these darling mother-of-pearl bird beads at a bead
show and we thought that these would make a delightful pair of earrings so
we're going to show you how to make the pair to this earring. Essentially it's a
hodgepodge of beads, a leaf charm and some bicones and we're going to show you
how easy it is to make this. The first thing you want to do is take a head pin
and we're going to use this head pin to make the first of our three dangles. I've
got my bicone crystal bead here. This is just a four millimeter bicone crystal
bead and I'm feeding it onto a head pin and I'm going to make a wrapped loop to
make my first dangling component. So to do that I'm using round-nose pliers, I'm
going to grasp the wire of my head pin right above my bicone crystal here and
I'm going to bend the wire toward me 90 degrees. Then I'm going to reposition my
pliers to the top of that little bend so that I'm grasping it at the 90 degree
bend but I'm going to bend that wire up and over the top jaw of my pliers, away
from me. And that makes the start of a loop. Then I'm going to take my pliers
and put the bottom jaw in that loop and finish pulling the loop around to finish
the loop like that. Then I'm going to grasp the loop across with my round-nose
pliers and I'm going to wrap the tail around the neck of that head pin two
times. And what that does is it secures that loop so that the bead won't slide
off and the loop won't open. Now I'm going to take my wire cutters and I'm
going to trim that wire and I've got a little end sticking up. This happens a
lot when you're doing wire work. I'm going to use my chain-nose pliers and
I'm just going to press that little end down just because we don't want any
pokey little pokey ends. And there's our first little beaded component,
see it there. And we're going to make two more of our little dangling components.
This time we're going to use wire. This is just 24-gauge gold wire. I'm going to
cut about a three-inch length of wire and I'm going to I'll start with the
leaf for fun. I'm going to feed the wire through my leaf, just like that. And then
I'm going to pinch the wire up over the top of the leaf so that my wire sort of
crisscross like that I'm going to bend one of them 90 degrees and then the
other one sort of straight up. And I'm just using my fingers and fingernails
for this. It just makes it easier. Then I'm going to make a wrapped loop and to
do that I'm going to use my round-nose pliers and I'm going to hold on to that
crisscross and I'm going to take the wire that I've bent at a 90 degree angle
and I'm going to wrap it around that neck like that and that way that wire
won't, or the bead won't, come off. I'm going to use my wire cutters to trim
that little end there. And then I'm going to make a wrapped loop in the top of
this. So to do that I'm going to do what we just did with that bicone bead, I'm
grabbing the wire right above where I made that first loop, I'm going to bend
the wire 90 degrees toward me, reposition the pliers, wrap the wire up and over
that top jaw, reposition to the bottom jaw, pull the wire around to finish the
loop, and then I'm going to wrap the loop by grasping the loop across with my
pliers and pulling the wire around two times, like that. And these wires kind of
overlap each other from the other loop or the other wrap and that's just fine.
I'm going to trim and then I see I've got a couple ends sticking up here so
I'm going to use my chain-nose pliers to press those ends down so they're not
sticking up. There's my second little dangling component. And for my third one
I've got a briolette bead and it's kind of similar to the leaf, so we're going to
do it the same way. I'm going to cut about a three
inch piece of wire here. This is of our 24 gauge wire. And I'm going to feed it
through the hole in my briolette. I'm going to do the same thing I did with
the leaf which is pinch the wire up and over the top of that briolette so they
crisscross. I'm going to bend one of the wires 90 degrees like that at the
crisscross and the other one I'm just going to use my fingernail make it kind
of stick straight up and then I'm going to wrap this the same way we've been
doing. I'm going to use my round-nose pliers to grasp that little crisscross,
pull the wire around the neck like that to make a little wrap, and then I'm going
to trim the wire. And then I'm going to make a loop: grasp the wire right above
where I just made that loop, bend the wire 90 degrees toward me, reposition the
pliers to the top of the bend, pull the wire around the top jaw, and I'm bending
that wire away from me. I'm going to reposition the pliers to the bottom jaw
and then pull that wire around to finish my loop. So I've got a finished loop
there. I'm going to grasp the loop across with my round nose pliers and I'm going
to wrap the wire around two times. And again I'm kind of overlapping or meeting
up with that initial wrap that I did. And now I'm going to use my wire cutters to
trim and then I'm going to use my chain nose pliers to press down any ends that
are sticking up, like that. I'm also going to straighten up my loop a little
bit. Here we go. So that's my third little dangle. Now it's the super fun part we're
going to assemble our whole earring with our special bead, our bird. To do that I'm
going to cut about a four inch piece of my 24-gauge wire and I'm going to make a
wrapped loop at one end of this piece of wire. So I've come down
probably about an inch there, a little over an inch, and I'm going to bend my wire 90
degrees like I've been doing, reposition the pliers, pull the wire up and over the
top jaw, reposition again to the bottom jaw, and pull the wire around. Now I've
got a loop. I'm going to grasp the loop with my pliers and then wrap this little
tail around the neck two times. And that's my wrapped loop. I'll use my wire
cutters to trim and I'll use my chain nose pliers to press that little end
down, so I've got a little end there. There we go and now I can assemble my
little center component here. We're making this piece that we're going to
add these dangles to. So to do that I've got my bicone first and I'm going to
slide on my bird and then my second bicone.
And now I'm going to start to make my wrapped loop, but I'm not going to wrap
the loop yet. So I'm grasping my wire right above that bead with my round-nose
pliers. I'm going to make a 90 degree bend, reposition the pliers so they're at
the the top of that bend, I'm gonna pull the wire up and over that jaw away from
me, reposition the pliers so the bottom jaw is now in the loop, and pull that
wire around. But I'm not going to wrap this loop yet. Instead I'm going to feed
on my dangles. So to do that I've got my briolette first then I've got my leaf
because I kind of want my leaf in the middle and then my bicone crystal and
now I'm gonna kind of pull them down into that little loop make sure they're
down in my loop like that. See they're nestled down in there. I'm going to use
my round-nose pliers and I'm going to grasp the loop across just like I've
been doing all along. It's a little bit trickier with my dangles there but you
can just make sure your dangles are down at the bottom of the loop like that. And
now I'm going to wrap the loop by pulling that tail around this neck two
times. And I'm going to trim and I'll use my chain nose pliers to press that
little end down cause I see I've got a little end sticking out. There we go. And
now to make this into a proper earring we've got an earring wire. And what I'm
going to do is just slide the loop under the earring wire and then when I get to
the part where it won't go past I'm going to use my chain nose pliers to
just slightly open that loop until the bird earring falls down in that little
little loop and then I can close it back up. And now I've got a darling pair of
Birdy Boho Earrings.