The ill Humored

I make jewelry in my spare time. I prefer semi-precious stones and gold or silver. Sometimes I use shells in my designs as well. My main expertise is wire-wrapping and what I like to call wire-smashing. Basically I take 12-gauge silver wire, bend it into strange shapes, smash the heck out of the shapes with a chasing hammer, drill holes in them, and then link up the shapes with chains and beads. I don’t know how attractive it actually is, but so far my friends and family have been very diplomatic. So maybe my jewelry isn’t all that bad. The great thing about making jewelry is that it channels my more aggressive impulses and keeps me from taking them out on my coworkers. So I consider it a win-win situation.