I finally put together a wind chime using all of my slumped-until-they're-flat insulin bottles. I was disappointed that the glass ended up ...

I was impressed when I saw this at work. The things you could do with old insulin vials. This patient was pretty good with his hands and had...

Happy Independence Day America! A few weeks ago I attended a birthday party for my niece at The Scrap Exchange in Durham. My kids had to drag me kicking and screaming out of there because

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I finally put together a wind chime using all of my slumped-until-they're-flat insulin bottles. I was disappointed that the glass ended up being so cloudy, but I heated the heck out of them, so I guess that's an unfortunate side effect. The spirals at the end of the copper wire are sandwiched between the layers of glass. That was the inspiration for this project - fusing a wire inside the flattened vials so that they could then hang from that internal wire. I tried recording a couple short videos to show the nice clinking sounds that these little bottles make when they knock against each other, but unfortunately the sound didn't come through well at all. I just love these flattened little bottles. They are just over 2 inches long when flattened. Hmmm...I just realized that they are kind of the shape of an old-fashioned hot water bottle. Luckily when the bottles aren't slumped so extremely they seem to stay clear. Stay tuned for one more slumping project with these babies that I'm still playing around with. And I have an idea involving LED lights, but that's a whole new direction for the future.

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