Very cool K. Now all you have to do is get bold and make one the size of a bus. How do your neighbors feel about the nut messing up the 'hood with aaahrt? Looks pretty sterile where you live. 
Seriously though, you could take that sort off work a long way if you get really into it. Maybe you should post it in the art thread?
Mike
You ain't kidding! For the first two years I lived here, the Assoc. Covenant forbade parking in ones driveway. You had to be in the garage w/ door closed, or gone. Still, no pink flamingos, political signs, or outward appearances that you may be enjoying life to the beat of a different drummer.
There's an art thread? (I know, use the %^#$^% button, right?)
Nice thing about art is you can try an idea, if it works, cool, move on to the next project, if it doesn't work, cool, move on to the next project.
The finished result is a cool thing, but the main enjoyment for me is the construction and also talking to people about how it's made and why I decided to go with bobbins instead of something else and so on.
I like to think about things in non-standard ways, and use items (like the bobbins and marbles) for things they were never designed for. And another fun part is when someone else is looking at the piece and notices those things and you see a light bulb coming on over their head thinking "How cool! What a neat use of a ________" .
Making and enjoying art is a break from reality. As you are designing or making, or viewing, you're not thinking about bills or IRA's or HMO's or the boss or the aching back or other stuff; it pulls you into the immediate moment and there is nothing else, if just for a minute.
Much like motorcycling - you enter "flow", a state of both focus and relaxation.
And that's what it's ALL about.
-K
