Archive for July 19th, 2010

• My Favourite Fidget Gadget

  Date: 2010.07.19 | Category: Uncategorized | Response: 0

  At next weekend’s Portobello West Market (July 25, 2010), I will be introducing my favourite fidget gadget, the “Stress Ball” aka a chainmaille concoction called a dodechahedron. I could get technical with the definition of a dodechahedron (and yes, I’m kind of a math geek type) but in general I just call it a sphere. It is made from 96 rings and in this larger size, assembled one ring at a time. In the centre is a mysterious big glass bead that lets its colour shimmer through every so often. Attached to a long chain, it makes a fabulous and conversation eliciting piece. The aluminum rings make it very light weight, the glass bead adds just a spark of colour and the long chain makes it a fun fashion statement. You have to come and give it a feel. The rings move ever so slightly and at about a 1″ diameter, you’ll find yourself placing it in your hand and fidgeting with it. The fidget factor makes it my idea of a stress ball.

  I also make these in a couple of other variations. There’s one that’s slightly larger than my standard size and that houses a glass marble in the centre and then there’s the dainty little sphere that I’ve created in colourful combinations as cell phone charms and in sterling silver, sometimes mixed with colourful anodized niobium as delicate little pendants on a much shorter sterling silver chain.

  See you at Portobello West next Sunday!!!!