Insomnia and Metal
What happens when you can’t sleep and you like to make jewelry?
Jewelry that you can’t take off without damaging it.
I couldn’t sleep. Not because I had anything on my mind. No, I just lay there in my bed. Not. Sleeping. It was starting to get to me. I looked over to the end table next to the bed and saw a bit of jewelry that I’d started years ago. A small length of 18k yellow gold chain. I had taken 18gage wire and wound it around a metal rod, then cut the coil using a jeweler’s saw. It was originally supposed to be a necklace, but I wound up without funds and then moved. In the move I lost the rod that I’d been using and the supplier I have no longer has that wire in stock. (Special orders COST!)
The bit of chain had been sitting in my minuscule gold stash for about five years. It dawned on me in that moment of exhaustion-induced “clarity” that it would fit my wrist perfectly. I took up my pliers, and using the metal butt-end of a folding knife in my left hand, closed the links around my wrist.
Here you go!
Gold chains are priceless. Well done Adam!
Thank you, Goodman Drogo.
I did actually take it off (With a little help…).
Now its got a toggle clasp and I’ll eventually post it.
Priceless indeed, but priceless doesn’t fill a belly.
If only we could find a way to make priceless fill a belly…
You could put something priceless in a stomach, but unless it is an edible priceless thing it would be worse than not filling a belly. I think the secret may be in making something priceless edible, and making it last for many meals would make something edible also priceless. Spam?
It’s pretty, and priceless, and now I’m hungry.