The Mystery Thing Revealed: The Transparent Faceted Rectangle.

Today, after days of speculation amongst my readers, I shall reveal the answer to this week's Guess The Mystery Thing challenge.  To catch you up: the object was to identify the clear faceted thingamabobble at the center of these upcycled necklaces:

Hmmm...mysterious...

Think you know?  Did anyone guess?  Read on, my friends...

Before the reveal, Mich's Honor Roll of Most Creative (Totally Wrong) Guesses:

Imadorable: A coffin for the mini-Invisible Man.
Lisbonlioness: Erm...it's really quite obvious, but since I was lucky enough to win one of your recent challenges, I won't spoil it for everybody else. It's not like I was totally lost, stumped, without a clue or completely in the dark or anything...*sneaks away to hide somewhere*
Maple Girl: The special block in the glass mountain that allowed the prince to go after his princess.
Beth: Barbie's doorbell.
Periwinkle Dzyns: Definitely, the tears of my high school English teacher, she was so square she cried in rectangles.
Heather M: A lucite belt buckle for small disco dancers?
Carol: Chunks of unmeltable ice from Mars.
Dena: The Invisible Man's dominoes.
Heather: Teeny-tiny longterm cold storage for interstellar space travelers. You know, like from the Alien movies, but for really, really small cosmonauts.
Amy: Barbie's lucite camera?
Lora: Wonder Woman's invisible camera! 
Shannon: Snowman buttons. They are using these instead of coal this season.
Rae: Prototype for glass bottom shoes (like glass bottom boats) so you can see what you're stepping on.
Michele: Clear floatation devices for Liliputians to make their get-away after Gulliver broke all the tiny ropes holding him down. Bet you thought I wouldn't figure it out!
The Boy: Tiny polished windows.
 


Seriously, peeps - those were some of the best ones evah.

Ready to see the answer?  It's going to make you say aha!  Because once again, no one came even a little bit close.  And I thought this would be an easy one!  Just shows you what I know.



Ready?



Steady?



Bam.

The lids from little hotel shampoo bottles.

You can find this style of bottle in various incarnations, often containing cheap perfume...not that I would know anything about that. 

The DIY: with a sharp poky thing, I popped the plastic stopper out of the lid.  Then, using the same sharp poky thing heated over a flame, I melted three holes for stringing, plus another hole right in the center of the bullseye (for the bead accent).

I created the Japa Mala style necklaces using this tutorial.

Winners, winners!  Since there were no correct guesses,  random.org has chosen two lucky ducklings to get necklaces this week.  They are: Rae and Anonymous (CraftyCasey).  Congrats, you two!  Be sure to look for my email, coming soon.


Thanks a zillion for playing, you guys!  That was a super fun one!