After racking my brain in part 1 of this saga, I was hit with inspiration from a theme I kept seeing on Craftster - Shrinky Dinks. Apparently Shrinky Dinks are freakin' hot among the Indie crowd. I had no idea.

And the beads said, "GO FORTH AND MAKE 300 PENDANTS OF YOUR LOGO IN SHRINKY DINK. NEVER MIND THAT YOU HAVE NEVER DONE IT BEFORE. NEVER MIND THAT YOU HAVE LESS THAN TWO WEEKS. DO IT NOW. YOU WILL PREVAIL."

The long story short is: 17 hours, approx $250 in supplies.

The picture book version goes like this:

Eric modified the "Freddie" logo (for those of you who don't remember, Freddie is the name of the White Peacock) to fit better on a disc shape. After mass raids of all local Michael's, we pulled together 10 packs of ink Jet Shrinky Dink, destined to generate 330 logos (I believe in spares).

I found the Punch worked much better if I used Eric's paper cutter to trim the edges of the Shrinky Dink sheet first.

320 printouts of Freddie on Shrinky Dink, meet the Marvy Uchida Giga Craft Punch. I flipped it upside-down so I could see the placement and used a towel to cushion the punch and my hands. The punch is a heavy bastage, and sadly my hands were red and sore for over a day after this part of the project. Remember, though, I was defying its shape's physics and using it 320 times in a row.

Then, a simple hole punch to make the hole for the jump ring.

The discs were baked 6 minutes a batch just slightly varying from 300 degrees.

In the next installment, I'll show you what they looked like when they came out of the oven and how they were packaged.