There were several different shapes and sizes of plastic bricks, and it didn't take long to come up with some ideas for them that seemed exciting. I wanted to drill the tops out of the tiny, circular parts on the top of the bricks and have something more organic protruding from the holes to give the bricks a little more excitement. This was where I planning on adding some color as well.
The drilling process did not go as planned, with many of the pieces cracking as the drill bit was pushed through the top of the circles. The drilling process did create some fascinating looking little white corkscrews though. With a handful of cracked bricks, and some nice little white, plastic corkscrews I decided to go in a different direction with the piece.
There were also some corkscrews made of wood shavings laying around near the drill press and since they echoed the shape of the plastic ones I had I grabbed them too. They got a coat of white paint since the natural wood color didn't go with what I had in mind for the necklace I was planning.
Once again, gears had to be switched, when the plastic and wood corkscrews proved to be too brittle to work with. After super gluing both together with the bricks they started breaking at the drop of a hat.
In the end, the bricks were stacked in various ways, and strung together with butcher's twine. The twine also formed the "chain" of the necklace.
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