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Ring-A-Day: Bedbug Ring

I made a second bed ring when I thought about putting a bug (not a real bed bug) on the memory foam. This coccinellidae, a.k.a. “ladybug,” was in one of my plants. You can actually buy a live bag of them for your garden from Sears, Kmart, and ebay. You can check for the real bedbugs, a.k.a. Cimex lectularius, before renting a hotel room in NYC at the Bedbug Registry.

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Ring-A-Day: Ed Bed Ring

Our friend, Eddie Bridges, has a fun project. He’s asking all of his friends to request Tempur-Pedic’s 8″ x 6.75″ x 1.5″ free sample to make a couch. He’s even posted the project on Tempur-Pedic’s Facebook page. Today’s ring is in honor of Eddie’s project. It’s a tiny sliver of the “memory” foam on a laser-cut wood bed and wood ring shank.

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Ring-A-Day: NYC Subway Token

Our subway turnstiles often still say NO TOKENS, even though they have no token slots. Yesterday, we checked Hopstop for our trip out to Tortilleria Nixtamal in Queens and got a surprise stat: CO2 Saved: 3.21lbs. I love not having a car, and being able to read in transit. What I never connected before is that for every gallon of gas you burn, you blow out 20 pounds of CO2 from your tail pipe. Pretty surprising.

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Ring-A-Day: 100th Ring!

Today’s ring is the 100th ring in the series! I wanted a wax seal kind of ring. What I ended up with was a rubber stamp signet ring, since we don’t often have a sealing wax candle handy in these modern times. I cut a perfect rubber stamp on the first try — except that it was backwards. FYI all you G-men from the Treasury Department: the cut is 125% larger so I don’t get in trouble with you, and the original scan came from the interwebs.

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