Jewelry Tech.

[cyberspice]

I'm doing crafty activities again. One of the activities I've started is making earrings. There is a fantastic store called Yum Yum Beads in Leeds. It is a complete cornucopia of all things dangly. One of the things I wanted to do was make a pair of earrings which reflected my inner nerd so I have made a pair of Magic: The Gathering D20 earrings.



They are made very simply by taking a pair of the giant spiral containers, which are usually intended for holding semi precious (or otherwise) stones, and a pair of earwires. I simply slipped the wires on to the spirals by opening out one end of the spiral but I need to close the end off with a touch of solder.

The great thing is that the D20s are removable and so can still be used :-D

Comments

[steer.livejournal.com]

You have failed your saving throw against being a geek girl. :-)

By the way, are you in SF for the first week in August?

[cyberspice.livejournal.com]

Doubtful at the moment. It all depends upon the client but I suspect not.

[steer.livejournal.com]

Doubtful at the moment. It all depends upon the client but I suspect not.

That's a shame -- I was hoping to have someone with local knowledge to show me around.

[cyberspice.livejournal.com]

If I am I'll show you around!

[steer.livejournal.com]

It's always good to have someone with local knowledge so I hope you are there when I am. Sounds like you really like the city.

[gesundyke]

ooooooh pretty.... *makes grabbypaws*

[gesundyke]

you should so totally take commissions to make these...

[mayamaia.livejournal.com]

In admiration of this idea, I took the stone out of my spiral container pendant and replaced it with one of my d20s.

[cyberspice.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[mayamaia.livejournal.com]

Got a lot of compliments for it at the Maker Faire yesterday too!

[cyberspice.livejournal.com]

Nice :-D Its one of my ambitions to go to the Makefaire in the Bay at some point. The one in Newcastle-upon-Tyne was good but not great.

[patzilla]

Did you use D20s or the spiral countdown life counters usually found in fat packs? Hella cool, I like that you made the die removable for use, because you just never know when a save roll is going to come up. :-)

[cyberspice.livejournal.com]

They *are* MTG life count down dice found in fat packs :-D

[patzilla]

Sweet, you just earned some serious geek chic points in my book. ;-)

[cyberspice.livejournal.com]

Why thank you *curtseys*

[patzilla]

You're welcome (you look cute with pigtails, btw).

Now to figure out how to work D30s or D100s into something fashionable. *chuckle*