Earrings and Bracelet: Fun with hammered copper washers

Ok...those copper washers have been a lot of fun to mess around with lately. Workin' another pair of earrings with pretty red garnets, and finished a bracelet with the washers, and some hand-wrapped copper wire connectors. I'll oxidize them in liver of sulfer, then polish in a tumbler...muuuuch easier to polish in a tumbler with silver shot than doin' them by hand.

 

This bracelet was fun to do, and I really like the all metal look and feel of it. I hammered the copper washers so much that they became rather sharp, so I had to file the outsides of them so they wouldn't cut into a wrist. The connectors are simply all copper wire wrap