260: The Glass Necklace

Explanation

Here, Cueball, instead of just buying a necklace, makes the actual necklace. Sometimes glass necklaces are considered cheap, but here (as the title-text says) he actually worked hard for it.

In the first drawing, Cueball is making a blueprint. In the third, he is colecting sand, which glass is made from.After pouring it inside his "canister," he ties it to a hot air balloon and flies it during a thunder storm ( similar to when Benjamin Franklin made his experiment with his kite) hoping lightning will strike it and provide the extreme heat needed to fuse sand into glass.

Later, after the storm has cleared, he finds the canister, removes the glass, admires its natural beauty, and takes it to a jeweler. (White Hat) He sets it and turns it into a proper necklace, for Cueball to give to Megan. This shows how hard he worked, and, in the title-text, to give some actual meaning for it.