The Paris Pendants

When the gals in my knit group found out I was going to Paris, they all chipped in and gave me a card with some spending money. It was a really sweet thing to do and eased any worries I had about the extravagance of the trip. I wanted to do something to thank everyone but I couldn’t very well buy them anything as I was supposed to spend the money on food, and drink and fun stuff. So I came up with a plan.

I decided to make collaged pendants using the metro tickets and other ephemera I collected while on my trip. My friend Therese taught me how to do this a couple of years ago and it’s lots of fun. You assemble these little paper collages and then sandwich them between two glass slides, like microscope slides. Then comes the harder part. You have to tape them together with metal tape, apply a coat of flux and then solder them with a soldering iron. It takes some practice and I’m not super good at it yet but I really enjoy the process.

I had tons of fun making the little collages and even more fun assembling them one evening with Therese and Meara. We had a bottle (or was it two?!) of wine and started an assembly line with Meara taping and Therese and I doing the soldering. There was a lot of laughter that night and I got to have great fun with these friends while making gifts for some other friends. I am truly blessed.