I work in an IT office, and I come across tons of old computer equipment. So naturally, I had to find something to do with at least SOME of the stuff.

This has turned out to be a very cute, petite necklace. The pendant is a recycled volume knob from a broken CD burner. It's rather neat to play with; it still turns up or down. So if you're bored, you can pretend to turn the volume of people's voices down around you.

The chain the pendant is hanging on is actually recycled cat 5e cable. I've taken out the green pair to use as a nice accent to the pendant. A friend has soldered the clasps on.

My little Sister-in-Law was nice enough to model it for me.

Neat! I'd actually never seen one of these before. It's nice to not have come across an "I can't tell you" before I did.

Very cute! I love the look. You almost wouldn't know they were zippers to begin with.

I immediately thought it was a baby chick.

Perhaps the addition of a small eye could help convince others who don't see it? I'm not sure, aside from making a beak that actually sticks out over the side a bit.

Anyway, it looks like a bird to me. A little odd bird, but a bird nonetheless.

Those are really nicely done! I love all of the colors, and you took great pictures to show them off. I think I may have to try this out, myself.

Does a hair blow-dryer work the same as a heat-gun?

Very nice! Your first experimentation went MUCH better than mine--trust me, my stuff looks a lot worse.

I especially love the ones you did with the backings. The wings and the leaves with green background stand out to me the most. Excellent for a first time!

You could fill them with resin, too, which dries hard.  It looks lovely, though!

I thought about that: I have resin to use. However, I had heard that you shouldn't put things into resin that actually contain moisture, like the live plants I like to use. I don't know what would happen if I did. I'm not entirely sure I want to waste some of the resin to find out.

I have to say, I love the mummy one. And from the looks of it, that one also took you the most time.

That is amazing! Makes me wish that I had gone into more detail in my crochet lessons.

Very pretty. I didn't know that mineral oil would keep the items preserved, or do you add something, like a drop of alcohol?

(By the way, we're actually not allowed to post links to our stores or talk about selling our wares in posts, but signature links are fine. )

Ah. Thanks. I had wondered about that, but I couldn't seem to find anything to confirm it. Perhaps I was looking the wrong places? Anyway, I went back and modified the post to correct that.

I haven't added anything to the bottle besides the mineral oil, and the items inside seem to be holding up just fine. Most of these items were dried already, anyway. They've been sitting here for over a month now, and still look great (I took these pictures just a couple of days ago).

Flower petals, however, do not hold up so well. I like your suggestion about the alcohol; perhaps I can try that next time? I'm a little unsure as to what to do about preserving things in the bottles like that. Especially things that haven't been dried already.

At least I finally found a glue that is actually watertight...