I'm out of small coral beads, and couldn't wait for another order to arrive. I just had to see how a pair of "double helix" hoop earrings would look like. So I made them (two more days of wrapping) with another one of my favorite gemstones: Peridot. I realize now that I've made only two pairs of hoop earrings over the past two and a half years, since I've started making jewelry.
These hoops were painstakingly woven with 28 Ga over 20 Ga copper wire. When the frames were ready I added those really tiny Peridot beads I was sure I couldn't do anything with (they're about 1.3 mm in diameter), twisted them in a double helix, formed the hoops then oxidized and carefully hand polished them.
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