Hearts Wings and Stars

I made a bunch of new designs last week using Copper Clay. I created some different bails using rolled out snakes of clay and attaching them to my pendants with little round balls. The problem I discovered is that when the copper clay shrinks (and it shrinks a lot), my little bails pulled away from the pendant. One of them actually broke off (winged heart) and two separated on one side but I have repaired them. I'm slowly learning about some of the limitations/nuances of the copper. Shrinkage does weird things!