I have made one and a half pairs, actually. My son asked me to make a pair for his mentor/coworker (he works for the same company at a different store - safety day is company wide) but I am tired. I hope to finish four pairs total, one for my boss and one extra in case someone else wants to wear goggles and chem gloves in their ears.
I actually can’t stand wearing earrings but I don’t like the way they look as a necklace so I’ll put up with it and the crusty ear holes afterward.
Oh and here’s the safety board I created. We are actually supposed to change it once a quarter and no one ever does until the district safety coordinator gets on our case and my boss or someone does a minimal effort thing. So when I was asked to take over, I was super excited. I have a bunch more ideas but I can only change it once a quarter!
This are both adorable and hysterical! Thanks for sharing how the gloves were made, but now I’m super curious about the goggles! I’m also curious what kind of workplace had a fog tank that can cause such burns.
For the goggles, I carefully cut around the edge of the eye and popped the backing off, leaving me with a plastic oval “bubble” shape. The Rainbow Loom bands fit exactly inside them! So I cut out a little curve for the nose piece and super glued around 3/4 of the rubber band, leaving the nose area unglued. Once that dried, I put a smidge of glue at the top of the curve and pressed the unglued part of the band into it with tweezers. Then I cut open another band and took off about a centimeter to make it the right length. Then I super glued the ends onto the goggle body.
It stands for fat, oil, and grease. It’s basically a very hot chemical bath where we can put baking pans, oven parts, basically anything metal that gets gross. It sits in there for about 24 hours and all that stuff gets dissolved. We have had a few injuries in the company so they overhauled the training and safety protocols for it. There was one where someone reached in, they were wearing the protective gloves, but reached too far and the liquid went into the glove. They still have not returned to work. I am a store-level safety coordinator so I got to see the gnarly photos at our quarterly meeting
I love that you shared the process with all the materials because you used everything in such a creative way! Would never have known these started life as balloons or googly eyes. Well done.
That’s worth crusty ear holes I’d think.