I gotta change my Jewelry icon.

Or at least get a better pic of that pendant... anyway, I have two pieces to show off today. I'll put the other one up later. For now, here, an experiment in ear climbers. Ear crawlers. Whatever, there's like five names for the damn things.

( They are like unto earrings, but they go through the hole and a long piece of metal goes up the back of your ear, and another goes over the front of your ear, and they hold to your lobe as if you had multiple piercings, but you DON'T, *gasp* *amaze* )

Herkimer diamonds- double-pointed high clarity quartz crystals, which legally aren't supposed to be called Herkimer diamonds unless they were mined in Herkimer County, NY, but I don't know how much that rule gets obeyed- 28 gauge silver-filled wire, and 21 gauge Argentium silver wire. For reference, Argentium silver is also called Argentium sterling. It's basically sterling silver, but instead of copper, they use the same percentage of germanium, producing a form of silver that experiences little to no tarnish.

Here's the other one.

( I did this design in copper and then verdigrised it. I still need to seal the other one so it's safe to wear next to the skin. Meantime, here, have some shiny instead of some mottled greenish. )

Sweet baby Eris, fourteen gauge jeweler's brass is painful to work with. Physically. I don't have machinery or vises for this, I work with pliers, so a fourteen gauge piece of stiff metal is basically a wrestling opponent for my thumbs.