Thank you for your lovely comment – and I’d love to see the photo. You can
submit your photo here.

Wonderful, Pat! Looking forward to it. 🙂

Bula Rena! I tried to make some and added a few twists of my own! i will try to send you pictures which are on my phone.just have to figure out how! ..lol Pat from Fiji

Bula Pat! It’s nice to hear from you again. Yes, please feel to! To decide on your pricing, I recommend using my free Jewelry Pricing Formula. Wishing you all the best at your upcoming craft market!

April, thanks for your lovely comment! And I’d love to hear how your jewelry making goes! 🙂

Linda, thank you so much for your lovely message! And I wish you fast healing for your feet. Many of us have found “therapy” in making jewelry – or even in just looking at tutorials and running our hands through jewelry supplies. I hope the silver lining for you is that you’ll have opportunities to create and explore things that excite you about jewelry. Hugs to you! 🙂

Laurie B, you’re very welcome! And I love your idea of packaging these earrings with a little wardrobe of dangles. 🙂

Thank you, Val! 🙂

Vicki, you’re very welcome! And thank you for your lovely comment. 🙂

I am like Lynda where I am bad with measuring … just start working. But, I will try making these WITH the measurements marked! Wish me luck! ????

Thanks again Rena!!

Thanks, Kathy! 🙂

Barb, thanks for asking! A rubber, plastic, or nylon head hammer won’t leave the texture (dents) or flattening that a metal-head hammer would create. Try both types of hammer heads on a piece of scrap wire, and see the difference between the rubber, plastic, or nylon type of hammer head, vs. the metal type of hammer head. 🙂

My pleasure, Trish! 🙂

PS. Lori, try a seamstress tape….inches and cm both together, and easy transport, too.

Hi Deb, thanks for asking! Here are the specs for my round nose pliers (Wubbers Classic Round Nose):

Total Length of Pliers: 6.5 inches
Width of the Jaw at the Tip: 1.5mm
Length of Jaws from Tip to Box Joint: 25mm
Box Joint Dimensions: 8.0mm Deep by 13.75mm Wide by 19mm Long

I hope this helps! 🙂

Lori, thanks for letting me know you have difficulty with millimeters and centimeters.

The reason I often use metric measurements in my tutorials is because they’re simpler and more accurate with the sometimes tiny measurements in jewelry. You may have noticed that many jewelry components are measured only in metrics – such as beads (4mm, 8mm, etc.). I try to include both metrics and inches in my tutorials, but sometimes I forget to include both.

Do you have a ruler that has inches on one side and metrics on the other? If so, you can use the metric side of the ruler. It should show about 30 centimeters (cm) on the metric side. The tiny lines between each centimeter are millimeters (mm). There are 10 millimeters in each centimeter.

Alternatively, you could also use an easy online tool that converts centimeters or millimeters to inches. Simply go to Google, and type in a search for “centimeters to inches” or “millimeters to inches”. This will show you a box where you can enter the metric measurement and immediately see the conversion to inches.

I hope this helps, Lori! I do encourage you to get familiar with the metric side of your ruler, since so many jewelry components are measured with that system. If you don’t have a ruler that shows metrics on one side, you can easily find one in any store that has school supplies or office supplies (Walmart, dollar stores, etc.).

Thanks for asking, Kristina & Millie! We want our finished wire jewelry to be sturdy and strong, and not easily bent out of shape. That can be an issue, particularly with thinner gauges of wire. So if you use a nylon, plastic, or other non-metal hammer to pound your finished wire jewelry piece all over, you’re “work-hardening” the piece, making it sturdier and stronger. 🙂

Maria

Thank you, Gail! 🙂 I would contact the manufacturer of the wire you’re thinking about using, and ask whether they recommend it as safe to use in ear piercings.