Recycling and jewelry making: keyboad pendants tutorial

Write your own jewelry!

Hi!  Last time out, I showed you how to design cute computer key pendants by making one hole in the center of the key.  Like this:

Today, a couple of other ways to play your keyboard.  (Hee hee.  I’ll be here all week.)  As before, you need to remove the long post that sticks up in back.

I used a heavy duty wire cutter, but my friend Ruth, Mistress of Geekery, recommends a hacksaw.   (I’m sure she’s right; the backs of my keys do look pretty gnarly.  But they feel smooth when worn and really, who’s gonna know?)

Okay, first project: single initials!

With a heated poker or piece of wire, melt two holes on top and one on the bottom of each initial, like so:

 

In each hole, insert a headpin, bend it sideways and snip it off short.  Then turn little loops.

Now you have three loops on your initial…

And can create a super sweet custom initial necklace, simply by adding any charms, beads or dangles that take your fancy.

Next up: wordplay!

I used the same method of melting holes, and simply strung craft wire through each computer key, with little beads in between.

Make loops at the top…

Look what I wrote.

There is much fun to be had when you write your own jewelry.  F’r instance, here’s one for a friend of mine, who toils valiantly before a computer, days, night, weekends.  Poor darlink, I know she sometimes feels there is…

Okay, my budding novelists.  Go pry some keys off your computer, write something meaningful and wear it proudly.  Pull no punches!  Tell people how you really feel!  Even (or especially!) when you are

Recycling and jewelry making: keyboad pendants tutorial

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