This month's AJE Component of the Month challenge was from Rebekah Payne of Tree Wings Studio . She makes awesome polymer clay beads, but recently she has been making hand painted leather feathers. For this month's challenge, we could choose either a single larger feather, or a pair of smaller ones. I chose the smaller blue pair. I wanted to make some bicone beads to match these feathers, but as soon as I got back from Bead Fest I started working my other job again, and quite honestly have not wanted to even look at my torch right now. I had these pretty round swirl beads that matched perfectly, so I went with them! I knew I was going to make earrings, and wanted to figure out a wire wrap, instead of punching a hole in the feather. It took me a few tries, but this is what I came up with. If this is a technique that's already out there, please just bear with me! Here's what I came up with: I folded over the ...