Gallery: Jewelry

Style: Recycled/Upcycled Tech
Item: Connector bracelet
Made by: Em
Date: 2010 (Tekkoshocon)
Notes: This series of jewelry is made out of recycled/upcycled (as the crafters say these days) computer parts, sanded and double-sealed when applicable (see the circuit board pieces below for more on that). This bracelet is made out of wire and connectors.

Notes: Another shot of the connector bracelet, demonstrating the closure.

Style: Recycled/Upcycled Tech
Item: RAM chip bracelet
Made by: Em
Date: 2010 (Tekkoshocon)
Notes: Circuit boards grind into hazardous dust when cut, so Em used proper precautions when handling it! (Don't try this at home without the same precautions, kids!) This bracelet is made out of RAM chip segments and is closed with a pair of lobster clasps.

Notes: A second view of the RAM bracelet above, fastened.

Style: Recycled/Upcycled Tech
Item: Charm bracelet
Made by: Em
Date: 2010 (Tekkoshocon)
Notes: Another RAM chip bracelet, this one with RAM charms on a chain bracelet.

Notes: A closeup of the RAM charm bracelet (above).

Style: Recycled/Upcycled Tech
Item: CPU fan pendant
Made by: Em
Date: 2010 (Tekkoshocon)
Notes: By fans, for fans, with fans? This pendant is made of a CPU cooling fan on a black woven cord.

Style: Recycled/Upcycled Tech
Item: Heat sink necklace
Made by: Em
Date: 2010 (Tekkoshocon)
Notes: This pendant is made of a heat sink, accented with wire and clear beads (see below for more detail).

Notes: A closeup of the heat sink pendant (above).

Notes: A much closer closeup...

Notes: ...and a shot of the edge of the pendant.

Style: Recycled/Upcycled Tech
Item: Pentium II chip necklace
Made by: Em
Date: 2010 (Tekkoshocon)
Notes: All of the parts used in this series of jewelry came from some obsolete computers that Em got through her work - for instance, one bearing this Pentium II chip. It's doing more good as a pendant, I think. It's wrapped with and hanging from a rawhide cord.

Notes: A closeup shot of the Pentium II pendant (above).

Style: Recycled/Upcycled Tech
Item: RAM charm necklace
Made by: Em
Date: 2010 (Tekkoshocon)
Notes: Another RAM piece, this one with RAM chip charms on a silver necklace chain.

Notes: A closeup of the RAM charm necklace (above).

Notes: The back of the RAM necklace (above).

Style: Recycled/Upcycled Tech
Item: RAM pendant necklace on wire
Made by: Em
Date: 2010 (Tekkoshocon)
Notes: This RAM necklace sports one focal piece of hardware, set off with black and silver beads on thin wire.

Notes: A closeup of the RAM & Wire necklace (above).

Style: Recycled/Upcycled Tech
Item: Choker with wire & connector
Made by: Em
Date: 2010 (Tekkoshocon)
Notes: This choker would, actually, match the Connector Bracelet (above), or just be colorfully geeky on its own.

Style: Recycled/Upcycled Tech
Item: RAM earrings
Made by: Em
Date: 2010 (Tekkoshocon)
Notes: French-hook earrings with RAM dangles, one of a few sets made in this series, each slightly different.

Notes: The back of RAM Earrings #1 (above).

Notes: The second pair of RAM earrings.

Notes: The back of the RAM earrings, pair #2.

Notes: A third pair of RAM earrings, with horizontal dangles.

Notes: Finally, we have the back of the third RAM earring set.

Style: Recycled/Upcycled Tech
Item: Red wire earrings
Made by: Em
Date: 2010 (Tekkoshocon)
Notes: These dangle earrings are made of recycled wire and beads in red, black, and white.

Style: Recycled/Upcycled Tech
Item: Yellow USB earrings
Made by: Em
Date: 2010 (Tekkoshocon)
Notes: These earrings are made of yellow plugs/connectors (USB, I believe) accented with wire and beads.

Notes: Another angle on the USB earrings (above).

Style: Recycled/Upcycled Tech
Item: Pentium II keychain
Made by: Em
Date: 2010 (Tekkoshocon)
Notes: Your keychain could run a late-'90s PC, if it weren't disembodied and wrapped with gold wire.

Notes: Another angle of the Pentium II keychain.

Notes: All of the RAM jewelry in a group shot, of sorts.

Notes: All of the tech jewelry, other than the RAM stuff.

Style: Board Games
Item: Trivial Pursuit "Pie" Earrings (3 wedges each)
Made by: Em
Date: 2010 (I Made It! Market)
Notes: We often dabble in nostalgia, and for this craft market we turned to another childhood favorite for many - board games. These earrings are dangles crafted out of Trivial Pursuit game pieces. Everyone's got their best categories...

Style: Board Games
Item: Trivial Pursuit "Pie" Keychains (Filled)
Made by: Em
Date: 2010 (I Made It! Market)
Notes: For the overachievers, there are About-to-Win keychains, with the full complement of wedges.

Style: Board Games
Item: Trivial Pursuit Wedge Keychain / Cell Charm
Made by: Em
Date: 2010 (I Made It! Market)
Notes: (Photos forthcoming!) These take just the wedges in a more linear cascade of plastic glory.

Style: Board Games
Item: Trivial Pursuit Wedge Bracelet
Made by: Em
Date: 2010 (I Made It! Market)
Notes: Taste the rainbow of mid-'80s TV and Secretariat!

Style: Board Games
Item: Scrabble CRAFTY Hemp Necklace
Made by: Em
Date: 2010 (I Made It! Market)
Notes: Fashioned out of a deluxe Scrabble set, wood beads, and hemp cord, this necklace spells it out for everyone.

Notes: A closeup of the Scrabble CRAFTY necklace. "AF," in particular.

Style: Board Games
Item: Scrabble WOOT Chain/charm Bracelet
Made by: Em
Date: 2010 (I Made It! Market)
Notes: Seven points...or total win?

Style: Board Games
Item: Game Piece Earrings
Made by: Em
Date: 2010 (I Made It! Market)
Notes: These pieces remind us of the Sorry! game, although they came from elsewhere. These ones are set into dangle earrings.

Style: Board Games
Item: Game Piece Cell Phone Charm
Made by: Em
Date: 2010 (I Made It! Market)
Notes: Another of the classic pawn/game token pieces on a cell phone charm.

Style: Geekery
Item: Lord of the Rings Risk - Goblin Necklace
Made by: Em
Date: 2010 (I Made It! Market)
Notes: These next few are at the intersection of Games and Geekery, made out of game tokens from LOTR Risk. This chain necklace is festooned with goblins and matching red beads.

Style: Geekery
Item: Elf Earrings
Made by: Em
Date: 2010 (I Made It! Market)
Notes: Disclaimer: Not actual elves.

Style: Geekery
Item: Ringwraith Earrings
Made by: Em
Date: 2010 (I Made It! Market)
Notes: Intimidate easily intimidated folk with tiny plastic harbingers of doom.

Notes: A closeup of the Ringwraith earrings.

Style: Geekery
Item: Cave Troll Keychain
Made by: Em
Date: 2010 (I Made It! Market)
Notes: Never lose the keys to your giant eagle (or...Giant Eagle) with a tiny plastic cave troll.

Item: Button Bracelets (Group)
Made by: Em
Date: 2010 (I Made It! Market)
Notes: Faced with a gigantic box of random buttons, some vintage and some newer, Em matched up mixtures of buttons into elastic cuff bracelets. Here's the group shot. Closeups of each one follow, starting clockwise from the top.

Notes: This combination has a citrus/springlike theme, with lots of warm pink, coral, and yellow.

Notes: This one features blue, yellow, and deep green. The complementary color scheme - learn it and love it!

Notes: This bracelet mixes up military-style, faceted, brushed-metal, and more in a gold/brass-toned theme.

Notes: Black and white go with everything, even one another. This one is all black and white buttons of various shapes and types.

Notes: This one also takes different textures and shapes in one color, and this time it's silver. This is one of the thinner bracelets, too, with almost a single file of buttons.

Notes: The Wood-themed bracelet is a mixture of shapes, textures and colors, including toggle buttons and non-wood buttons in complementary colors.