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[Girlinhat]

I go for smaller, I enjoy making more detailed things, but that's a persona preference/insanity on my part.

[Girlinhat]

Squeeee it came =D  Package from TRL.org, regular mail (not UPS) waiting all fine and dandy in the mailbox~

For the curious:

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That's the package and some medium-duty scissors (for scale I guess?) and the contents.  These arrived individually bagged, but my first order came in one long strip that had been vacuum-heat-sealed to separate the different rings.

That's black rubber, blue rubber, and white rubber, all 16g 1/4".  Then black, gold, green, pink, purple, red, violet, and white anodized aluminum, all 18g 1/4".  And additionally 2 ounces of bright aluminum 18g 1/4" and two bags of 20 6mm obsidian beads.  I was slightly disappointed that the obsidian was polished and bright, it looks like any other bead once you polish it, but it has a smokey quality to it, a sort of "grey aftertaste" in the stone.  It's not bad, but awfully small!  I dunno what I plan to do with them, but obsidian is dwarfy so I couldn't resist.  $1.20 for a bag of 20, meh, I can handle that!

[Girlinhat]

And then:

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Some leftover aluminum rings, which are identical to the new ones I got, and blue rubber.  I'm a bit sad the blue rubber isn't brighter, I like pastel blue...

[Eidolon]

Wow, nice. How stretchy are the rubber rings? I'm making someone a spiral chain bracelet, and the black rubber o-rings I picked up from a home improvement place are rather hard.

[Girlinhat]

Are they washers?  Those are terrible!  These are EPDM, extremely stretchy.  They can unreliably stretch to about twice their size, and it helps that there's a lot of them as it distributes the stress rather evenly.  They're also fairly strong, more-so than a rubber band, it takes a -tiny bit- of tugging to pull it on and off my wrist.  I'm used to rubber bands and bony tail hickers, these rubber rings are rather firm and secure.

I think I might make a collar for our newest kitty.  She's a stray kitten who started living under our house.  Some food and a cold night, and she came clambering in   She'd look adorable in pink aluminum and white rubber~  Plus, cats actually have a bad tendency to strangle themselves with collars, getting hooked on chain link fences or exposed nails and choking themselves.  Elastic collars are much preferred as it lets the cat slip out if they really get caught.  I worry slightly about pinching hair, but the metal rings are fairly slick and don't really "cling" much.  Even if hair got between the rings, there's not really enough friction there to pull.  Maybe a little against the rubber, it's got some texture, but it's still very smooth and such.  Either way, kitten is a short-hair, shouldn't be a real issue.  I'll see how it works!

[kisame12794]

Beware. Its just one now but just you wait, there will be more.....

[Girlinhat]

We've been over this countless times, that's why we have 3 owned cats (including the kitten), one who sleeps with us and eats with us but hasn't been to the vet so we hold no legal responsibility... and two tomcats who hang around.  Plus assorted raccoons who eat leftover catfood *shrug*  We had the kitten spayed and vaccinated and whatnot about two weeks ago.

[Hitty40]

Hey Girl, if you ever have any spare rings, send them my way.

[Girlinhat]

You can clearly see that I have some 5,000 rings.  I intend to use them all... at once...  it shall be a glorious tapestry depicting a dwarf and goblins in aluminum.  The image relates to the battle of Tholtig and the death of everyone else.

[Thief^]

[Girlinhat]

Some new photos~
A bracelet I made for myself, blue rubber and bright aluminum:

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A Christmas themed bracelet, it's become a bit bigger than this picture.  White rubber with green and red aluminum:

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A friend got me to make a set of bracelets for him, both black rubber with violet rings.  The rings were hard to take a picture of, as all cameras turned it blue, but I got a few decent ones.  Here's various stages of the production:

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(The last two are completed.  When a bracelet is laid flat, it manages to fan out like that.)

And here's a valentine's theme that I'm not entirely fond of.  The pink is very light, pastel...

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Because it was a friend, I charged him $20 for the both, and that's including shipping ($5 and change for flatrate boxes) but I think I'd be charging some $15 a piece for ones like that, maybe closer to $12, mostly gotta get feel for the market, y'know?  He also tested out my paypal, which is new and works pretty well, so I am confirmed "in business".

*turns on the OPEN sign*

[CatalystParadox]

\o/

In business, go you!  Gorgeous stuff, by the way.

[kisame12794]

Got my scales in. All 16 pounds of them. Kinda small but whatever, scalemaille is awesome. I may need thinner rings than the ones I got now though.

[Girlinhat]

16 pounds @.@

Is that 16 lbs or £16?  One is considerably more impressive than the other.

[kisame12794]

16.79 Pounds. As in weight. Got six thousand of them. Cost me 150 dollars Canadian.