ICAP: One Necklace...Like an Ostrich

I'm slowly working on the "one" necklace for this project.  This weekend, I started by stamping the lines of the poem into copper.  For some reason my brain snagged on the line "like a ostrich" and I kept humming "Like an o-o-o-o-strich, touched for the very first time...."  Thank you Madonna, for scarring my brain.  Then I cut out a 1 shape as well as strips of copper with the words from the first stanza stamped on them.  Initially, I thought I would go with this design:

But I don't really like the way it looks.  Even though it does look birdlike...like an ostrich!  I decided to cut out a second "one" and use the ones to make a v.  I have two ones instead of one one in the designs.  Maybe no one will notice it's now an Eleven necklace.

Today I was working on texturing the components.  The changes I made are very subtle.  I used a center punch to mark where the holes would go in the poetry strips and punched the holes. I used a "1" stamp to create a line of ones in the big copper ones.  It reminds me of the seam in a baseball, which is ONE continuous seam.  Ha.  It's a one.

I may still use the bubble hammer on the big copper ones.  I also need to put holes in the big copper ones so I can attach the poetry strips.  I'm not quite done with this one (ha!  see my bad pun?)  My plan is to walk away and work on the 2 necklace for a while before finishing this piece.