Guess The Mystery Thing: Attack of the Lenticular Hyperboloids

Ready to play a round of Guess The Mystery Thing?  See if you can guess what I used to make these open-structured little pendants:

Here's another version, done up as a flower:

The Mystery Things are the curvy coral-pink shapes.  What are those mysterious items?  Something you've seen before?  Something you have never met in your entire life?  Or something from another dimension in time and space?  Hmmmm...I wonder how many of you will get this one.

You know the rules.  Absolutely NO peeking until you have your guess firmly in mind.  

Got your answer?  Okay - now you can scroll down to see the reveal.

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Ready?  You still have time to change your guess...

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Okie dokie!  Here it comes.

Behold the Mystery Thing!

The inner parts of these vintage plastic hair rollers!  Rescued from the 'free' box at a recent yard sale.

First thing I did was wash them in a solution of water and bleach.  You know, because of reasons.

Then I snipped slices from the inner rollers, using garden shears.

Cutting the slices had the effect of squishing the ends, forming that pointy-ended shape that looks like an eye.  In two dimensions the shape is called a lens.  When expanded into three dimensions, it is called a lenticular hyperboloid.

But you knew that.

Once I had a bunch of lenticular hyperboloids, I began to play.  Stringing them together through the existing  holes, in various combinations - seeing which way the shapes would hang together.  Much fun!  And I always love taking advantage of ready-made holes in things.

I'm quite pleased with my funny pink pendants.

I also did a Christmas ornament version of the flower, look! 

Without beads in the center, it's nearly weightless, and so darn cute!  I'm going to use up a whole bunch of rollers making these. 

So - who guessed this one?  If you thought it was something different, what was your idea?  Do tell!

Next time, another hair roller idea, something so completely awesome that...well, you'll see.  Click right here to check it out!

Until we meet again...