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July 28, 2008
Diabetic Jewelry
Back in March I wrote a post about diabetic packaging, and ever since then I’ve been saving up my test strip canisters, thinking I might be able to make them into something. Maybe a new “green” product of some sort.
Initially, what I had in mind was something more polyhedral, but I also wanted to use the lids as snap-on connectors—(more or less as they were designed to be used)—and that seemed to leave only two options: a linear strand or a closed loop. (No geodesic sputnik shapes there.) Then, as I was idly stringing together a four month accumulation, inspiration struck. Diabetic jewelry.
Now ordinarily, what’s meant by “diabetic jewelry” is a medic alert tag with a rod of Asclepius symbol on the front and engraved type on the back that labels the wearer as a diabetic. I already wear one of those. (see photo above, on left)
But my younger brother, Hal, is a successful jewelry designer, whose work over the years has adorned plenty of famous celebrities. Perhaps, I too have a knack for jewelry design… (see photo above, on right)
Besides being a super-chic necklace made entirely out of recycled diabetic packaging, the real beauty part of my new necklace design is that it’s also functional. Each of the containers is like a locket, in its own right. You could keep a lock of hair for every beloved member of your entire extended family—(going back several generations, I should think). Or, properly labeled, it might serve as pill caddy for a whole month. (Personally, I plan to use mine to store all those used blood glucose test strips.)
(a photo of the basic module after the jump…)
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I use “lip balm” every day, usually Chap Stick or Walgreen’s chap stick, and usually cherry flavored for the pink color. I have never seen, or heard of, most of the varieties of lip balm in the photo. I wonder if there are any cautions or health issues about this kind of packaging, such as small children gobbling up a tube of Almond Joy.