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A crimp in my day -quite literally

Feeling a bit stupid, but able to chuckle about it as the strand is long enough to make 2 short necklaces out of it:

Being on vacation (on island, so I have all my supplies) I finally have some time to tackle one of the designs that I've been carrying around in my heads for a few weeks, a 4 strand 30" necklace. So I cut my 4 strands (of SoftFlex), start crimping, and find that instead of crimping the 4th strand I put another crimp on the end of the 3rd. Sounded like a really good waste of both beading cable as well as crimp beads, but at least it's long enough to cut into 2 pieces and still be able to make something out of it.

In the mean time I'm almost done, but rather close to the end decided I really needed a break from stringing a large number of 11/0 seed beads (and some others) - of course sitting in front of the computer isn't much better for the eyes and shoulders. Will post a link when I'm done.

Am I the only one who does things this stupid?

Aloha, Maren HiloBeads: Beads - Beading Supplies - Hand-made Jewelry

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Heh, every bracelet I've made in the past three weeks - I finish it with the clasp attached...and then notice I missed a spacer somewhere.

Cheers, Carla

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I've got you both beat. Twice, I closed off a necklace with the wrong end of a clasp. Thus giving me two bars and no toggle!

-m.

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I knew there's a reason to use split rings on the ends ... (or jump rings, for the jump ring people).

I actually managed to finish the whole thing without putting an extra twist in somewhere (much to my surprise).

Not feeling quite so stupid anymore now (in spite of that I left all my silver color clasps at home except some rather large base metal toggles).

Aloha, Maren HiloBeads: Beads - Beading Supplies - Hand-made Jewelry

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Realizing I don't have all my supplies I put on one of the few clasps I had with me:

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The color didn't come out very well, it's a transparent rather dark green. They call it olivine but it's much darker than the olivine we have here.

- And it really escapes me why bead makers think that peridot and olivine are different colors. Living on a volcano that emits that kind of matter: peridots consist of olivine.It's volcanic glass. -

Shoulders hurting again, this time from sitting in front of the computer for too long.

Now having taken up both wire wrapping and stringing I really don't know where I'll go from here, all I know is that it won't be chain maille.

Maren HiloBeads: Beads - Beading Supplies - Hand-made Jewelry

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Haven't done any dumb jewelry mistakes lately, but I'm having to face the fact that my short term memory is going. On Friday, I had to go to work without my purse because I couldn't find it. rofl. Fortunately, my keys are on the hook by the door, so I drove the 2 l/2 miles to work, obeying every traffic law I could think of. The penalties for having a license, but not having the license with you while you are driving are more money than driving without a license at all. Does that make any sense? That's NJ for you.

After I came home, I found my purse buried under some clothes I was sorting. I have since made a specific place to put my purse when I come home...it's too big to put on one of those eyeglass chains....which I probably will need to make soon as well. Of course, I hardly ever wear my glasses, so they are usually in my purse...ah yes...we've already covered that.

Patti

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