My stock of beads is not huge, but selected: mostly ancient stone beads. I have been seriously purchasing beads from 2000 C.E., not so much as a collector, as to avoid hoarding unvaluable (inherited) cash. Now I am bound to use them on my own designs (a no-nonsense way to enjoy aging) to meet my living expenses.
My metalsmithing skills are virtually nil. It was my good karma to purchase 18 years ago (after I came back home) an apartment less than 100 yards away from the workshop of a traditional silver/goldsmith. This 60 y.o. man (a saint) takes care of the highly esoteric task of smelting, soldering and similar chores demanding professional training and/or machines. My job is musing, sometimes helped by a little drawing... and then of course spending days and weeks filing away unwanted grams of metal, till that expected, suspected, dreamed-of shape is unearthed from the rough metal slab. I am attaching examples of drawings used in the making of a couple of rings -- with the finished piece next to it.
Most of the time fire is required in the first steps only. Welding is minimally used, and never on the really good pieces: these are carved out of solid "bricks" or rods of metal. Stone bezels are often joined to the ring by metal wires passing through the bead's perforation, when it is the case; when no perforation is there, the stones are attached by a metal frame to the ring.
The organinc feeling comes as a side effect of unthinking: going on and on, enjoying it, till the poor thing says "Enough for today!".