Friday, March 5, 2010

Resistors = Bracelets

A few years ago, while in Oregon, I learned about a place called Willie's.........a store full of creative goodness.   Well I visited and bought a bunch of stuff including some resistors.    I put them away and then couldn't find them........came back to Arizona and they were still MIA until just a couple months ago when we caught up with each other again.  

I poured them out in one of the red wagons so you could get a view of them.   They come in all different shapes and colors.   A lot of them have wires at both ends and some of them have two wires at one end.   As to what they really do in the real world, I don't have a clue and really don't care.   All I know is that I could use them in my art world.



I quickly made up a few to use as charms for a bracelet.  You can either cut one end off and just have one loop or you could do a loop on each end.    I know the loops are not perfectly round but I really don't care......kind of like the odd shapes of them.




Then I thought I would quickly make up a bracelet or two.   On the first bracelet, I added some of my things to it like monopoly game pieces, a watch face, a hand, eye glasses, shoes, some bead danglies I made and the resistors.   I put the resistors on first and I just secured them directly to the bracelet doing a wire wrap right onto the link of the bracelet.   Then I added the other stuff with jump rings.




I then made a bracelet with just the resistors and all of them were added directly to the links of the bracelet.   I put one on each link.......no jump rings on this piece.





So that's what I did this morning which was a lot of fun.   And it was a quick little project.

Check out Sherry Goodloe's blog because she is having a weekend giveaway.   I loved the necklaces she did and posted about earlier.   Now she is giving away a bracelet of the same style for a Weekend Giveaway.   She is a wonderful mixed media artist.

10 comments:

  1. Love the bracelet that YOU made today Nanc!! Thanks for posting about my give-away on my blog this weekend *smiles* . . . Good luck sweetie - xo Have an art-filled weekend!

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  2. Nanc - love that resistors - wish I could find store around me like that so I could find all the unique crafty goodness - they make an awesome bracelet!

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  3. These are great! I love dangly kinda bracelets. Julia and I have been having fun collecting charms for Girl Scout bracelets but I love the colorful, funky junky ones. If you can part with some of these I would like to buy some resistors from you or trade goodies for some. I've come across some electrical hardware but not anything like these.
    Marissa

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  4. This is positively cool, Nanc! Love the way the bracelet turned out with all those little goodies. Fantastic! And that's a mighty big pile of resistors! lol

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  5. Love the resistors. Made a very cool bracelet!

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  6. Nancy, love your bracelets. I am definitely going to have to go shopping with you !

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  7. I have some of the little resistors Tim had on the cruise!!! Used them on ATC's. Yours are all so different and yummy. Look like a candy bracelet, yum!
    nancy mayer

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  8. Great use of different kinds of items, very creative and cute too.

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  9. Oh GEEEZ.. now I have another thing to collect. I have a few but never thought to put them on jewelry. Wonderful idea!!!

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