Sterling Silver Nest Pendants

You know when you have something in mind and your brain needs work out all the details before you can execute the plan? Well, I've had this idea marinating in the back of my mind, but it took me a while to find the perfect beads and get up the nerve to actually attempt it. My main concern was that I would end up "wasting" a lot of wire in the process, but that turned out to not be the case. Here are my two different attempts at making a bird nest pendant as a gift for my sister-in-law's birthday.

I used sterling silver wire for both of them, and the eggs are some really beautiful glass drop beads from White Fox Bead Studio. One turned out more realistic, and the other more stylized...but I think both are really pretty. In the end, I let her choose...because I wasn't sure which one she would like better.