Wraps and Coils

Here are some more designs from my ever-growing collection!

tiger's eye, Chinese crystal, gold-non tarnish wire

grey-ish shell chips w/ sterling silver stretched coil

sterling silver coils, pink agate beads, Chinese crystals

Chinese crystals, prehnite nuggets wrapped in sterling silver

purple agate beads, copper coils, purple craft wire coils

Blue Rock Ring

I was messing around with some funky wire designs and thought this came out kinda cool...

CRAZY for Turquoise

Turquoise is one (ok, my #1) FAVORITE stone when designing and making jewelry. Here are some of my turquoise pieces: 

blue vein turquoise w/ gold seed bead spacers and coral "finger" beads

green turquoise on gold non-tarnish wire w/ magenta teardrop beads

green turquoise chips w/ gold floater spacers and orange coral beads

green vein turquoise disc beads w/ copper spacers and copper coil bead accents

Feeling Inspired...

I was feeling "inspired" to try something NEW and start making wire wrapped rings with some of the beads and wire that I have in my inventory. I came up with this design after taking a look at a pair of gold and pearl earrings that hubby bought me for Christmas last year. Here is what I came up with after about an hour of trial-and-error:

I used a 10mm Swarovski white pearl and about 2 feet of 18 gauge non-tarnish gold wire

This design reminds me if a little bird egg tucked away in its nest!

I made it a size 8 to fit my middle finger...perfect fit!

Rule of thumb (no pun intended!): always wrap your ring 1 size larger that the finger you are going to wear it on. If you are going to add more than a couple of coils on each side of the ring, starting wrapping at 1.5 sizes larger.

Materials Used: 10mm Swarovski white pearl from Artbeads and 18 gauge non tarnish gold wire from Bead Smith.