Over the years, it’s become a bit of a running joke that if I can get it to hold still long enough, I’ll wirewrap it. 

The list includes:

• an arterial line guidewire (unused) in a wedding necklace for a heart surgeon
• a bare silicon chip (for one of the chip’s developers)
• pieces of kevlar, carbon-fiber, and solar panels from a solar-powered car (for the person who helped build the car & race it across Australia)
• rattlesnake vertebrae
• cremated human ashes
• a lit candle (while performing onstage with SJ Tucker)
• locks of hair
• coins from all over the world
• ivory beads that someone's grandfather brought back from Africa
• shards of broken glass and mirrors
• acupuncture needles (unused)
• subway tokens from Russia, NYC, and Boston
• a labradorite elephant
• tiny My Little Pony figures
• a shower curtain ring
• guitar strings
• stones, shells, seaglass, and driftwood gathered all over the world including Lake Erie and Loch Lomond
• a family heirloom engagement ring
• a Braille elevator button
• many, many pieces of poems & books
• prescription eyeglasses
• tiny paintings
• ethernet cable
• 100+ year old nails from my house
• broken Mardi Gras beads picked up from a crack in the sidewalk in New Orleans
• pieces of black plastic garbage bags
• used artist’s paintbrushes
• pieces of a broken flute
• a video game cartridge
• ritually-spun handspun yarn
• a necklace containing 17 large electroplated leaves
• my great-grandmother’s birthstone ring
• many pieces of heirloom jewelry
• a diamond drill bit
• dog hair (on purpose)
• dog hair (accidentally)
• bits of dictionary pages, postage stamps, maps of Middleearth, & other ephemera 
• a story recorded onto cassette tape, audio cd, & video DVD
• vintage pen nibs, watch gears, keys, & assorted metal objects
• a small metal tin that originally contained thumbtacks
• seeds, acorns, twigs, & other assorted plant materials
• tektites, fossils, & other interesting/rare rock-like things
• various & sundry pieces of broken technology
• chandelier crystals
• vintage art deco giraffes
• a trilobite
• burnt matches
• Mikki Kendall’s hair
• Silver Hawthorne’s hair
• my own fingers
• a 2000-year-old "Widow's Mite" coin that was in circulation before the second Temple was destroyed
• a lot of really beautiful 2000+-year-old broken glass
• several 1000-year-old Chinese coins
• dandelion seeds
• the Sh'ma
• the final lines of the Mourner's Kaddish
• Eilat Stone
• my ear (ear not included)
• meteorites (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 so far)
• dinosaur prehistoric reptile teeth
• my own fingers, again
• a vintage fountain pen nib from the USSR
• my own fingers, a third time
• the tailpipe of a 2010 Subaru Impreza
• fossilized dinosaur poop
• fossilized dinosaur bones
• my thumb (are you noticing a trend yet?)
• a hagstone
• bog oak
• resistors
• gargoyles
• strands of LED lights
• Haskell pearls

…I don’t remember if I actually took the dare to wirewrap a marshmallow peep. I know I seriously considered it.

Also, multiple people forbade me to wirewrap the staples from my skull after I had brain surgery. Kinda still sulking about that.

Got something weird you'd like me to wirewrap for you? Let's chat!

Photograph by Brooklyn Logan/Mindful Mama.