This is no April Fool's post

 

As I explained yesterday, "Failed to Publish" is still here.  I have a slew of comments in queue ready to be published.  I check at least three times every day in hopes my comments will be published.  Thank you for understanding.  You have NO idea how stressful this has become.  

I was surprised at how well received this post was when I first shared it back in 2017.  As you can tell from the title, I named it:

 This is no April Fool's post.

Today begins my first post leading up to bEARTHday, April 22.  And it's no April Fool's post either.

I've been hanging my sheets, towels, blankets and clothes on my clothes line every day because it was 80 F (~ 27 C) or higher for several days.  The winds were often over 40 to 50 mph, though, and once when I went out to get an afghan and a towel, they were twisted all over the line and one of the clothespins had come apart.

I tell you this because, not to be confused with a clothes peg of single wooden construction,

it doesn't matter if your clothespins are plastic, old, or new (as shown above left to right)

they all have the same construction.  And when they come apart, like they often do when the wind batters them, we often throw them away.  Now I have saved the wooden parts in the past, thinking I would use them for doll legs or picket fences in an assembly,

but I never thought to save this metal spring before.  Now I'm sure many of you with lots of grip could reassemble one of these clothespins, but as is often the case, one wooden side may be missing.  As I looked at this spring, I thought it looked a bit like an elaborate jump ring for a bead.

So I took it to the basement to see if I could find a bead that it might fit in.  I picked three.  My favorite was the one on the far right, but it was too wide for the metal spring.  Although I tried to spread the "jump ring," my fingers weren't strong enough and the angle was wrong when I tried to assemble it.  I will need to play around with the angle once I get my needle nose pliers, all of which are, for some strange reason, now on the main floor of my home.

I had absolutely no trouble getting the round polymer clay bead to fit in the jump ring spring.

Here it is ready for someone to wear.

Today was Day 1 of 22, where instead of sending this metal spring to the recycle bin, I turned it into a necklace.    I'm sure there will be more to come as my clothespins often come apart now that I'm hanging my laundry on the clothesline.

Thanks for visiting.  I am glad you joined me for this first day of April (no fooling).

Actually, this is Day 20 of 22 and I recycled a post from April 1, 2017.  If you aren't crazy about the metallic tech look, I suggest stringing the spring with a colorful ribbon.