Fun with Organic Chemistry

So I took on the Mad Scientists of Etsy Team challenge of Organic Chemistry for May, and it was a challenge let me tell you! Organic chemistry is the study of chemical compounds containing carbon and hydrogen. Chemists often use a sort of 'short-hand' to represent how chemicals look. Carbon for instance can form a ring, often with hydrogen attached - when there are six of these carbons they are usually represented by a simple hexagon. Hence the inspriration for my item!


This pendant is about 2.5" long, and has a very cool looking Bronzite stone bead in the middle that moves!

I created a pendant out of 16 ga copper wire that I shaped, then wire wrapped a very fine gauge wire around it. Suspended in the middle is a hexagonal cut Bronzite stone bead. What I love about this pendant is that the Bronzite bead moves from side to side or even spins! My fingers have never been so sore - not even after a day long rock hunt! Wire wrappers I think you definitely don't have to worry about me - I can't see me doing it that often, lol The pendant can be found in my Etsy store here.

A length of soft brown sude cord really compliments the pendant and works well with the color scheme.

The team had quite the response to this challenge! So many that we ended up with not one but two treasuries on Etsy!

The first of two treasuries which can be found here.

The team's second treasury, featuring challenge items as well as a few other fun items from the team as we didn't have quite enough for the second treasury. Check it out here!

New Etsy Team for Scientists!

We're in the process of forming a team for scientists on Etsy - check out our thread for more details at: http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=5521620

Currently we are discussing the team name, so far the favorite seems to be Mad Scientists of Etsy! There is also a discussion about team membership - a poll is available on the left side of this blog to voice your opinion about it! (Please only vote if you are interested in joining the team!)

If a team name and membership options can be decided on in the next few days, then the info will be submitted later this week to Etsy so we can become official!

Please feel free to contact me with questions or suggestions!

EDIT: Names have been narrowed down, and a new poll is available for final name selection! Both polls are open until 3/21/2008 at 6pm central time.