How to make art out of chaos (photos)

"heavy metal chaos"

Ever have one of those moments when you are
just not in jive with the universe? The day I did this was one of those days. I was working on some jewelry for an arts and craft show that was coming up.

After finishing up as I was putting  things away, I dropped the whole container of jewelry findings on the dining room rug. So onto the rug went hundreds and hundreds of tiny bit of metal bric a brac, findings, pins, clasps, beads. there are 17 compartments in the container, each one holding different types of jewelry findings. Needless to say, it was a big mess.

what was left in the container

It took me about an hour just to half-way sort through some of it. But before all that, when I looked down at it and saw the skull sticking through, I thought, "hey, thats kind of cool." So I took a few pictures of it before tackling the mind-numbing task of sorting through about a 1,000 assorted pieces of metal.So I guess this is one of those, "when life gives you lemons" kind of a story on a small scale. 

I called this "purple chaos"

After uploading it, I played around with in on my photo program and came up with the "purple chaos" photo below.  Got an idea of a story, interview, or photos? Let me know, I'm always looking for interesting things to post and would love to hear from readers!