The toothbrush bracelet incident
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craftgrrlI just thought I would share this because I know my friends will be laughing at me about it soon.
I had two leftover toothbrushes, and since I have a huge test to study for, I decided instead to make bracelets out of them. So I boiled some water, and got my heavy duty leather welders gloves, and a can of campbells soup to help bend them around.
It all went fairly well, and after about 10 minutes I had bent them into the shape I wanted. I just dunked them in boiling water and fished them out after a minute or so with pliers or a chopstick, and bent them a little bit at a time. So eventually I had them made and they were bent completely around end touching end.
I slipped the still very warm bracelets on my wrist and was very proud. Then an hour or so later, I decided to take them off. Heh. They were easy to slip over my hands while warm because they were still pliable, but after cooling I could not for the life of me slip them off. I finally had to put dishsoap on my hand and then pull them off, leaving red marks.
No one was home, but it's too bad I didn't have the whole episode on tape, especially the last bit of me dancing around trying to pry the damn things off my wrists without breaking them.
I had two leftover toothbrushes, and since I have a huge test to study for, I decided instead to make bracelets out of them. So I boiled some water, and got my heavy duty leather welders gloves, and a can of campbells soup to help bend them around.
It all went fairly well, and after about 10 minutes I had bent them into the shape I wanted. I just dunked them in boiling water and fished them out after a minute or so with pliers or a chopstick, and bent them a little bit at a time. So eventually I had them made and they were bent completely around end touching end.
I slipped the still very warm bracelets on my wrist and was very proud. Then an hour or so later, I decided to take them off. Heh. They were easy to slip over my hands while warm because they were still pliable, but after cooling I could not for the life of me slip them off. I finally had to put dishsoap on my hand and then pull them off, leaving red marks.
No one was home, but it's too bad I didn't have the whole episode on tape, especially the last bit of me dancing around trying to pry the damn things off my wrists without breaking them.
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