My precious

The kind of jewellery I like is the kind you can put on and forget - earrings small enough to sleep and shower with, necklaces strong enough to not break when caught carelessly on clothing, and - rings. My first ring was a cheap piece of colourless metal with a small uncut tigereye glued on it. Then my hand got slammed under some weights in Phys Ed and that was the end of that. The second was a loop of some copper wire I found in an electronics classroom. The metal had a beautiful red coating - not plastic insulation, just some sort of translucent lacquer. I twisted the ends into spirals in imitation of a ring I saw on a female classmate. Lost that...got several meters more copper wire for free from an electrical repair shop in Melaka...made another. This one was two rounds of the wire with the ends twisted around the loop. Lost that too...made another one, since I had plenty of wire. A few iterations later I ran out of my supply.

Oh yes, I'm an idiot...drew this as practice with my drawing tablet, didn't realize that making the background transparent wouldn't be a good thing for a blog with a dark blue background.

Recently I went to the nearby Ace Hardware store to see if they had anything I could use. I found some 14 gauge stuff. The salesman had a very funny "WTH?" look on his face when he asked me "How much?" and I said "Three feet." You must have a very small house, lady...

As I'd suspected, 14 ga was too thick to manipulate into the knotlike configuration I'd used before, so I left it for a while. Then I got some flat circular tigereye beads from a craft shop. It's the first time I've made any jewellery in a long while.

Note I normally wear rings on my right middle finger, not left thumb - it was just an easier position for taking pictures. It seems to balance the sensation of the wristwatch on my left arm. Having a ring to fiddle with also cuts nail-biting somewhat as a displacement behaviour =P

Making things for myself is fun...but it makes me feel selfish. Sometimes I think I should make presents for my female friends, but i'm afraid they'd find them too tasteless to wear.