here's another keepsake crafts video for house of gems today we're making a pair of earrings with great rustic appeal shaping and hammering wire so the first thing we're going to do is shape the small round loop at the top of our wire and i'm going to use these pliers and i'm going to put the wire a little past and i'm just going to wrap and you just keep tightening as you twist and then loosen to move i want my loop to be round all the way around because there's a point that you reach where you can't make it round anymore you see where this is straight here so i made sure i made it round past that so i can cut off that straight bit so i'm going to use a fairly large oval in this set the 26 millimeter by 20 millimeter and i'm going to place the top of my loop right up here and just wrap around the mandrel and just like in the loop i'm going to go past where i want to be so that the wire is rounded nicely cut the wire right where it meets that loop and then i'm going to repeat up here on the loop now the next step is to bring in your bench block and your chasing hammer and then it's just a matter of pounding all around to flatten this out going until it's flattened out and you have a nice even thickness all around and if you like you can use the rounded side of your hammer and give it this nice hammered finish pounding all around and you'll have to do both sides to do that once that's done you can take your file and go in and file off those ends and you may have to use a pair of pliers to twist that end in so that it meets the frame neatly so now that you've hammered to your heart's content have shaped your frames the way you like them and have filed those edges smooth it's time to add beads so now for the beads we need our fine gauge wire and we're going to take one end of our piece of fine gauge wire and we're going to wrap it around the end of the frame with the split three or four times nice and tight and then trim off the excess wire and then string on a bead and hold the bead to the outside of the frame and then the way i like to to wrap wire on a closed frame is i poke up a loop with my finger and that way you have much less chance of getting kinks if you find you have a loop crossed over itself stop right away and uncross that loop because a loop is a kink waiting to happen so then we're going to wrap around two full wraps between each bead and then string on another bead so once again hold the bead and then again poke up the wire and then wrap and just repeat going all the way around your frame and then when you end and the way you began with three or four nice tight wraps so once you've finished all your wraps you just need to add your ear wire use a pair of chain nose pliers to twist it open insert the loop of your frame twist the ear wire closed and you're done