Year of Jewelry Week 9

The theme of the week is Birds, and I did manage to develop according to the theme:

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The pin was entirely constructed with 16 ga sterling silver wire and hand-coiled with hair-thin 28 ga sterling silver wire, which was also used to attach the beads.

Although this week's theme is absolutely wonderful for the techniques I am currently working with, fate didn't want it so, and I had to content