Hex nut jewelry

I ran across a neat book recently called Hardwear that I like a lot, but probably won't buy because it's overpriced. It has instructions for making jewelry from materials obtainable at a hardware store, and it has a lovely delicate necklace using hex nuts¹ that I just have to make, and that I also just have to make for someone I knew from my last job. Anytime geeky meets pretty, what can I say, I'm there. The only sad thing is that I can't get crimp beads at my hardware store, so I'll have to go to a craft store anyway.

I lost my wallet on Friday afternoon, which kind of sucks; mercifully, I had a new ATM card at home in the mail, so after cancelling my credit cards I activated that, and took it to the gym and was able to get a new gym card. I can still fly next Friday because I still have my passport. So, that's the important stuff, and the rest is just a pain in the ass. Didn't stop me from lending $50 through Kiva to Ruth Njeri, a Kenyan woman who is a single business owner because "her husband married another wife when Ruth failed to get many children". Grrr. You sell those vegetables, Ruth! And by the way, your husband is an asshole and I'll be happy to tell him so, any time. With my fists. >:(

Lots of zine news today. I'm all set to take PayPal through my pen name now, so I posted on zine_scene to advertise it, and simultaneously heard back from a distro that they want to distro it! Squeee! So it will be on someone's table at Zine-A-Polooza later this month, and who knows where else.

¹Not the one on the cover; that's a different hex nut necklace.

Jewelry-making success

Oh wow. I had time to run to the bead store, and that necklace I was going to make out of hex nuts came out SO nicely. I'm extremely pleased! I feel a little bad now for not buying the expensive book in which the pattern was published, but it was just too easy to memorize... and I didn't like the other patterns enough to bother with them.

( Anyway, you know you want to see pictures! )