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My Little Hill

I sit atop a little hill of half finished projects, all of which must be done by tomorrow night.

Craft Update: Recycled Aluminum Spiral Necklace

Recently I acquired a large amount of salvaged wire from my Dad. Most of it was copper, but some of it was aluminum wire from an old lightning rod system. The first piece I've made using this wire is a chainmaille spiral necklace.

I've got a new project in mind.

I plan to make a simple system flute.

After having looked over my wife's flute and realizing that the keys are completely unlike my penny whistle, I knew I could never play the thing. However, a simple system flute uses the same fingering system as a penny whistle.

I've found several sets of instructions for these flutes, on the interwebs. Tomorrow I will procure the materials and begin the design process.

Craft project finished

I've been working on a crochet choker for Sparkly lady and I just finished it. Here it is.

Today I went to Laramie and worked with my Dad. My Dad is the foreman for Laramie Telephone Exchange. What he does is wire and set up phones, networks, low voltage electric, satellite, speakers, and all sorts of things. Today we were "fishing wire" through an elementary school. I imagine many of you have some idea of what fishing wire entails, but you have probably never experienced it like we did today. You see, for phone networks, you have to use CAT5 or CAT6 wire for pretty much every phone on the network. If you don't know what one of these wires looks like, take a look at your internet cable. Now, lets say you have 45 phones in a building, you need 45 of those cables. Obviously you don't want to have all that cable cluttering up the place so where do you put it, above the ceiling. That's where fishing comes in. You get a couple of people up on ladders and you give them this fishing tool.

They run the tool across the space where the wires are intended to go and drag a heavy strength ribbon behind. The ribbon is connected to the bundle of wires pulling from the source spools. Today we ran 3 sets of 15 wires, so we had 15 spools going at one time. Our set up was a little different, but it pretty much looked like this.


So, that was my day today. Tomorrow I will go to Laramie and do it again.

Happy 100th

According to blogger, this is my 100th post. I'm not going to have anything fancy, just a little crafty update.

This is just a prototype of an X-ray necklace I'm trying to cobble together for my schools fund raising efforts.














This is a Byzantine weave bracelet I was inspired to make after visiting a friend (Ducky) working with the same weave. I didn't have the right size mandrel for the wire gauge I wanted to use so I ended up using a size 10 knitting needle to make my coils on. I think it turned out ok.