Dr. Joe Sramek is a neurosurgeon at Wyoming Medical Center who uses tiny clips to secure a brain aneurysm that has hemorrhaged into the space surrounding the base of the brain. It's delicate and complex work.

Kathy Humbracht is the business manager for the hospital's operating rooms and keeps track of tiny, little life-saving stuff like trays of unusable titanium aneurysm clips.

Yvonne Wigington is director of financial planning and analysis at Wyoming Medical Center. She also makes jewelry and sells it as Casual Creations by Yvonne out of her home.

So give Sramek and Humbracht an idea, put $85,000 worth of clips that cannot be used for medicine because they are not in their original packaging in the hands of Wigington, and you get 51 pieces of truly one of a kind jewelry and 28 sets of six wine glass charms.

They will be among silent auction items at the "Wine with a View: Looking Past the Pain," fund-raising event for the Wyoming Medical Center Foundation from 6 to 9 p.m. on Oct. 24 at the Boys & Girls Club, 1801 E. K St.

"Dr. Sramek went to Kathy about the idea of wine charms, and Kathy had the jewelry idea, and it all came together," said Chandra Burgess, associate director of the foundation.

All proceeds will benefit the foundation's work with cancer patients through the Angels Program, as well as Masterson Place, where patients and their families stay at an affordable rate while receiving medical care in Casper.

Not only did Wigington devote more than 100 hours to creating her jewelry, she also grouped the pieces, which will be sold individually, into collections with names and inspirational messages.

For example, the "Angel of Hope Collection" 20-inch necklace contains nine clips and has become a favorite of staff members and volunteers with its sterling silver chain, white porcelain beads and Swarovski crystals. Its inspiration is "The WMC Foundation Angels bring hope to cancer patients and their families." That collection also includes an 8-inch bracelet and sterling silver wire earrings.

The jewelry ranges from dressy and formal beads, pearls and crystals to the more casual "Western Hospitality Collection," which is turquoise and coral.

All of the silent auction items will have affordable minimum bids, according to Burgess, perhaps in the $25 range for a set of earrings and slightly more for the sets of wine charms and bracelets.

The evening also includes the more than 20 original window pane paintings donated by Wyoming artists ranging from stained glass and landscape to florals and a retro downtown Casper scene featuring the Rialto sign.

More than 200 wines will be available for tasting from Poplar Wine & Spirits, and Gegi's will provide four hors d'oeuvres and dessert stations.

Tickets are $30 each or two for $50 and available at the Foundation office, 1139 E. Second, or at Poplar Wine & Spirits.

For more information, call the Foundation at 577-2973.

Reach Community News editor Sally Ann Shurmur at (307) 266-0520 or sallyann.shurmur@trib.com. Read Sal's blog at tribtown.trib.com/Sal/blog and follow her on Twitter at www.twitter.com/WYOSAS