LOL yeah I get that a lot. I started out with a desire to make my own chainmail pieces for Renaissance Festivals and when I saw all the colors available jewelry just made sense.
The first piece I made is attached to this post first on the left. Its a galvanized steel dice bag and the purple yarn was replaced with black suede (yes I know I am a nerd).
I also attached a few pics of my other other hobby (my wife says I have too many hobbies). These are custom swirl painted items. Got the original idea from Steve Vai's DNA guitar and spent months researching how to do the process (not easy when only one person in the world was doing it at the time and he sold to major guitar manufacturers.)
I did a stint in chainmail manufacturing myself (member of the SCA at one time)... I never bothered with soldering the ends shut because it was too time consuming.
And I played D&D for many years (original rules, before 2nd edition stuff came out), so there are plenty of multi-sided dice around here somewhere. No need to announce the nerd flag, we're all over.
The swirl stuff looks like some of the paper I did way back when. Float the dye on the water's surface, then gently lay the paper across the surface. Afro combs worked really well for getting a good, even spike pattern :biggrin: That wasn't a hobby I continued much past the initial stages, either. I'm a bit OCD for collecting info, which also means I tend to try a lot of different hobbies... some I enjoy (like lasers and lathe work), others I let go of (like cross stitch and papermaking).
