It's an, um, it's a...BEADED DOOHICKEY!

Once in a great while I will be overcome by the urge to try something different, to put down the knitting for a minute and head to a different section of the craft store.

This time it was big shiny glass beads and wire that called my name. I wanted to try one of those garden suncatcher glass thingamabobs that museum and garden stores everywhere sell for a meelion dollars.

Instructions, minschmuctions. Needlenose pliers are my friend. I had fun making it, whatever it is. My husband says it looks like beads stuck to a bunch of bent-up paperclips. But it is not made of yarn, and that is a plus.