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Lampwork bead enclosed with chains to make it look like a hot air balloon. Cool idea for a pendant.

Ah. It never occurred to me that one could use a whale-tail pendant as the toggle part of a toggle clasp. It may only work with a leather or textile loop, since other loops might not be large enough or flexible enough, but it's still a nifty idea.

Blue glass marble and wire woven _snails_ jewellery. The link has a tutorial you can buy for 10 dollars, and more pics. I like the colors and ethereal effect, and if one isn't crazy about snails, one can think of them as seashells.

Cool way of wrapping a diamond-shaped stone (or a bead) so that the frame is a leaf and the _veins_ of the leaf are what cages the stone.

Beads strung on stiff wire, and then wrapped with wire in a spiral along the whole thing. Lovely. (original listing gone)

I've never seen rubber maille rings used so prettily. I like this! (could not track down the page, link points to artist's blog)

The idea here is to take a cord and make a crochet-like chain on one side of the necklace, and leave the other side plain. That's an interesting texture/chunkiness contrast. In this example, the cord happens to be a beaded crochet cord, but the idea would work for any pretty cord. (original page gone)

Maille pendant done with Cloud-Cover/Four-Winds units, with a large Mobius in the middle, and the whole thing held rigid by attaching to a large outer ring. Pretty cool. But you'd need to have exactly the right ring sizes in order for the tension to be held properly.

_Silk Road Gypsy Hoop Earrings, Small, Eclectic, Teal and Red, Silk Wrapped Copper Earrings_ Interesting idea: wrap a hoop with silk strips (recycled sari silk, most likely) and then bind it with wire and beads. (original listing is gone)

Cool idea: spell out a word in Morse Code with long and short beads. Adds a (hidden) meaning to the work.

Dark cherry leather with a Dragonback strap. Dragonback stats: All aluminum 16ga. 5/16ths rings attached with 18ga. 3/16ths rings as well as on the edges. What I find notable about this is that the seams of the bag are _stitched_ with rings rather than thread or thonging.

Celtic Triskele copper wire wrapped pendant by GypsyMoonArt (original listing is gone)\012A different method of making a triskele; three hammered spirals bound together.

What I like about this is the way that it uses heart-shaped beads for the leaves of the shamrock.

There are multiple things of interest in these earrings. The main body of the earrings is done with black yarn, then the beads on the edge are attached with thinner thread (not sewn, it's clear it's still crochet). Then, looking at the earrings sideways, one can see that the top part of the earring is done as a fan/half-circle, and the lower part is two turns of a spiral; this is interesting because it wouldn't have occurred to me to not make the entire thing a spiral, but the two parts of it make it much better looking.

Wire wrapped pendant with beads. The interesting part in the middle seems to be made from shaping two wire ends into paddles and then lashing them to another wire which goes between them.

I like the way this makes a yin-yang shape with just one piece of wire.

Beautiful wrapped stone pendant; swirls and swoops which are slightly off-centre which makes it dynamic; border all around the outside holds two jump-rings for the chain to attach to, so that the pendant will sit properly and not twist around.

Turquoise donut pendant with satin cord Kumihimo braids on each side attached to it. What makes this interesting is that I think the braids started from the pendant, given the way the cords are wrapped around it, though I could be mistaken. But I like that idea, anyway.

Goldstone and copper wire and copper beads, all go so well together. Wire and beads cover only half the donut, giving some interesting a-symmetry and negative space. Also, the beads are not on every turn of the wire, only every third turn, again avoiding uniformity.

A _GoGo_ donut with three strands of square wire coming up through the hole and swirling in a loop and vanishing again. Pretty cool.