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Are you singing the song yet? You should be. [link] :D

Ever since I've been wiring, friends have brought me shiny things to play with, like broken suncatchers and pretty pebbles. :) I swear, I may be part crow but I am the laziest one I know. ;P

My friend Alex especially tries to find nifty things for me. One day, he pulled this pale-pink stained glass heart out of his pocket, and explained that his gramma had told him to give it to me, because the parts had fallen off, but it was still pretty. For years, it's hung from my lamp on a strand of elastic hairbanders, because I liked it as it was, and couldn't figure out how to wire it and keep it sturdy enough to not fall out of the weak metal holding the glass together.

Last week, I got my hands on a spool of 14ga galvanized steel wire (I think I'm just in love with 14ga in general) and had some fun. Galvanized steel is NOT easy in the hands, at least compared to electrical copper, but it's a lot of fun. A workout for the hands and arms, at the very least! :D I've found that 14ga steel doesn't bend as readily as aluminum, but it does curve nicely without kinking when you have good pliers. The thinner wires are 26ga steel (NOT galvanized ;P) To give you an idea of the size of this, it's something like 6 inches by seven inches.

At first, I had thought to leave it with the clear glass drop, but I thought that the center looked naked. I decided on a prism, but the only prisms I have are pink plastic hearts. I'm not all that fond of plastic, but I think it worked out well. I also did my best to do the same things I do with my pendants, making the back look presentable and not just the front. Now to find a window for this shiny object! :D

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InTheStarryNightSky's avatar
Wow, very pretty Razzi. Very pretty.