At work, in an effort to stave off boredom and burn off some creative energy, I decided to try to create an uber-trendy scarf out of paper clips. I had a vision of this glittering chain mail scarf trimmed with black binder clips. I saw myself as the next great thing to hit Project Runway and expected high fashion experts to be flocking to my front door any day now with offers to fund my latest line of office supply daily wear.
Well, there's a little problem with the whole paper clip scarf plan. You see, linked together paper clips don't really know that they are supposed to stay all flat and fabulous. I mean, I told them to do that, and even helped them believe in their potential to be flat and fabulous. And the paper clips were looking kinda cool sitting on my desk all glittery and edgy lying nicely flat in their properly assigned rows.
Then I picked up my carefully crafted creation to reveal... the biggest cluster ball of knotted paper clips I've ever seen.
I cursed under my breath as I untangled some 300 paper clips and gave up on my dreams to be America's next top fashion designer. I couldn't even bring myself to photograph the disaster for your viewing pleasure. Just picture a huge mound of unfabulous paper clips and you've basically got the right idea.
| May 12, 2008 03:36pm | 
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