It's the sprog's 18th coming up and I've got my eye on a couple of lovely south sea baroque pearls which are a close match. I want to attach them onto 18ct gold wires. Thing is, I don't really 'do' earrings. I just wear the same old hoops so I'm really unsure how to go about it. I imagine I should get them drilled all the way through and have the end of the gold wire heated into a blob, and I really like the idea of them being super simple and the gold just being in one piece from the back of the ear to the end of the pearl, but would that work? Would I be able to get the wire bent correctly after the pearl is on?

It seems like such a simple thing to make but for some reason I can't decide how to go about it!

Advice gratefully accepted!