Thing 8 - How not to make slide pendants
I’ve been wanting to make these microscope slide pendants for a long time, as you can see I even carefully collected all of the supplies. Months ago. Today I decided to actually try it, another great side effect of this Thing-a-Day.
Can I just say that soldering is fabulous, fun, and has a bit of a learning curve. While I enjoyed making this, I will have much more fun next time now that I know all the ways to do it badly. Most of the ways, at least. I can’t possibly do it worse.
Another thing I did today was get a manicure by a two year old. Her passion for all things girly has extended to my fingernails as well. As you can tell, I keep them short for, well, all the crap I have to do all day. Now they are short and badly painted. Awesome. Here I am showing them off with my badly soldered jump ring.
Now, the clamp thing? Totally necessary, unless you’re into burning the flesh off your fingers. This particular clamp thing? Way stronger than needed for this job. It broke my badly constructed pendant. Lessons learned. Fun had. That’s a thing.
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Looks nice though… sucks that it broke.
Always wanted to make those - very cool.
So pretty though, regardless.
Can’t wait to see more.