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One Bakersfield Woman's Blog to Mankind
Monday, August 28, 2006
What’s Your Type?
Did you ever wonder what happened to old manual typewriters? Well some really cool people have taken old broken manual typewriters, (working old manual typewriters they donate to children of Mexico without computers or electricity so they can learn to type), and turned the keys into wearable typewriter jewelry.
This was the perfect jewelry booth to be at a writer’s conference… the women bought wearable typewriter jewelry in scores! It became my new hobby to guesstimate how ‘to do’ a woman was by how much wearable typewriter jewelry she bought.
When I was in high school, I learned to type on a manual typewriter, the next year I had to learn to type all over again because the school had received electric typewriters. As an office manager with assistants that grew up on computers, I had to teach both of them how to use an electric typewriter and about spacing. They probably wouldn’t even recognize an old manual typewriter.
If I ever find an old manual typewriter in working condition in an antique store, I will definitely buy it for nostalgic memories…
Wearable typewriter jewelry…
Typewriter key bracelet
I bought one like this only with a 'M'
These are just two samples from their product line, If you’re a writer and love custom jewelry, check out What’s Your Type.
Did you ever wonder what happened to old manual typewriters? Well some really cool people have taken old broken manual typewriters, (working old manual typewriters they donate to children of Mexico without computers or electricity so they can learn to type), and turned the keys into wearable typewriter jewelry.
This was the perfect jewelry booth to be at a writer’s conference… the women bought wearable typewriter jewelry in scores! It became my new hobby to guesstimate how ‘to do’ a woman was by how much wearable typewriter jewelry she bought.
When I was in high school, I learned to type on a manual typewriter, the next year I had to learn to type all over again because the school had received electric typewriters. As an office manager with assistants that grew up on computers, I had to teach both of them how to use an electric typewriter and about spacing. They probably wouldn’t even recognize an old manual typewriter.
If I ever find an old manual typewriter in working condition in an antique store, I will definitely buy it for nostalgic memories…
Wearable typewriter jewelry…
Typewriter key bracelet
I bought one like this only with a 'M'
These are just two samples from their product line, If you’re a writer and love custom jewelry, check out What’s Your Type.
A friend sent me a baggy full of the keys off of an old typewriter that she had bought from EBay with a note saying "be creative." Over a year later the bag sits in a box (minus the G key which I sent back to her) with ideas still fermenting in my head.
Oh Mel, what a treasure trove... better get to creating! If nothing else they'd make great sock monkey eyes or buttons or accessories. :)
Cute!
cdarling
That's such a neat idea! Very different! Hey if Mel doesn't do anything with them she should give them to you and you can throw them at your annoying neighborhood cats! hee hee.
i learned how to type off of an electric typewriter. :) when i finally saw an old manual one, i was in awe at how ancient it was and how hard it was to work with. thank goodness for computers.