365 Day Challenge: Day 27 (Bonus: How to make cellphone charm holes for smartphones)

So.... exhausted...

Sorry, been asleep nearly all day long!

I have to go to this grill out in about half an hour so I have to go run and take a shower right after this post!

I wonder if I'll pass out......

But otherwise, today, I decided to add holes onto my cell phone case!

You see, when I was in Korea in the winter, I picked up all these tiny cute cellphone charms but...

No cellphone charm holes anywhere.

Got my new phone, and it's a smart phone.

No holes in sight either.

So what else can a girl do?

Make them herself! (Or... himself.)

Here is how! ^-^

Cellphone Charm Holes

What it is: Typically a small part on a phone that lets you put on a charm, in this case, putting two actual physical holes onto a cellphone case to do the same
What Bunneh likes: You can customize your phone any way you want!

Materials Needed:

Sharpie

Needles (yes, you'll need more than one)

2 small nails (you know, stuff you hammer things with?)

Jewelry wire (precut with a loop or just a really thin bendable wire)

Candle(s)

Scissors or a sharp tool

Pliers

Matches or a lighter

Hard plastic cell phone case (cannot be soft)

First thing you do is take your cell phone OUT of your cell phone case.

Just a thing, you're actually making the cellphone charm hole on the case, not the phone.

Please don't set your phones on fire..... I hold no responsibility....

Make sure the case is hard and plastic, not a soft material or a squishy one!

That way the holes don't tear, etc.

With a sharpie, mark where you want to make the two holes.

Once you do that, light a candle with either matches or a lighter....

(If you can't use either of them, ask someone else who can to do that for you... if it helps, I had to ask my younger sister to help.... I'm a wimp >___< but better safe than sorry!)

Grab one needle and clamp onto one end with your plier.
I actually personally used an IV needle... just cut off the plastic parts and the tubing... long story....

Put the open end into the fire and wait for it for a few seconds to get hot.

Once it's been there for a few seconds, immediately put the end on one of the dots you made earlier on the case.

Repeatedly do that, twisting the needle into the case over and over until your needle goes through.

You may go through a few needles, I personally went through half a dozen....

Once it's through, take it out, and get one of the nails.

Clamp it with your pliers, and heat up the pointed end in the flame.

Put the heated nail into the hole you just made.

It will literally enlarge the hole, and you'll go like "WTF whoa, am I going to burn this thing?'

Twist it around in there, and leave it in the hole.

Repeat the same process on the other dot you made earlier.

Leave the nails in for 5-10 minutes.

Take them out, reheat them again, and do it once more for another 5 minutes.

By then, the holes should stop closing themselves in.

Scrape off the plastic that grew around the holes.

Now, you're done!

To get a cellphone charm in the hole, just use jewelry wire, open up the loop, put in the cellphone charm, and use it like a needle to get your charm through the holes if it is too hard to do it by hand.

(It saved me time, trust me)

DONE!

Day 27:

(P.S. I'll take a picture of my phone and upload here, I actually changed the cellphone charms ^-^
I'll add in pictures of the materials I used too
Edit: First picture in this post is the pic now :D)

-hugs and smiles-

Bunneh ♥