Day 365 - Jo leather

I made it to a year! That's 365 days of non-repeated earrings. This is an appropriate pair for today that I saved especially because they were a present from the woman who posed me the challenge in the first place. Thanks Jo! I had fun. Aaaaaaand

Day 364 - original ellies

I was super excited to realise I hadn't worn these yet coz they're one of my favourite pairs that I've had for ages.

Day 363 - gold flowers

These I'm sure must be R10 specials from Frozen Lemons or a middle-of-the-mall jewellery stand.

Day 362 - silver bangles

These, like those from Day 295 and Day 328 (and, now I think back, Day 121 as well), began life as bangles. But I don't wear bangles, as I've mentioned before. These are particularly fun because they're segmented so you can change the shape.

Day 361 - tigers eye Angels

I bought these from a sweet little shop in Kleinmond (run by a crazy lady who tried to convince me both of the existence of angels and of the healing, good feeling type qualities of bits of rock - to no avail needless to say) and simply had to turn them into earrings. And I wore them today to match my angel wings top. Marvelous.

Day 360 - pentagrams

Another set of pendants that work much better as earrings. I've always liked this shape but obviously, being an atheist, not for the Satan worshipping reason since it's hard to worship something that you believe doesn't exist.

Day 359 - dangly hands

I made these. Not sure what they were originally but they make rather a lovely pair of earrings. The hand and hamsa I had in my random stuff drawer from various other bits of jewellery and decoration so I figured these were the perfect place to reuse them.

Day 358 - minions

I finally watched the Minions movie over the weekend (well, most of it. I did fall asleep) so I wore these with my Minions t-shirt for Monday's pair. Pretty sure they were key rings that I found in Chinatown.

Day 357 - turtles and beads

This a rather cute pair that I wore to Kleinmond on Sunday where we went to watch my little sister play some rather lovely fun jazz in her new band Manouche.

Day 356 - time turners

A total geek out pair this one but I love Harry Potter so I had to have them. I wore them for the closing night of my show, which was, as always, a bittersweet affair. I am so going to miss seeing these people every day!

Day 355 - green and white bait

Like my salamanders from Day 299, these I bought at a bait shop, baited (ha ha) by a crazy friend.

Day 354 - silver cats

A pair from the supplementary collection. I lectured when I wore them though because apparently I wore them the wrong way round.

Whatever, I am amazing. As the latest review of my show would attest:

Read the full review here.

Day 353 - tinkly squares

I like these for a number of reasons - square, simple, tinkly. All kinds of win really.

Day 352 - green and white beads

These are from the supplementary collection and not colours I would usually wear. I do like them though.

A rather amusing confusion happened today. What's On in Cape Town very kindly decided to feature our event on their Facebook page but they got a couple of the details wrong. Like who was actually performing.

What's also quite amusing is the fact that they mentioned the Othello rap, which is the only major section that we have completely rewritten. Yup, there is no way I'm rapping. Nobody wants to see that. Want to see how we did it instead? Get to the Masque!

Day 351 - silver and lace leaves

These are pretty but they do tend to get a bit heavy after wearing them all day. My sister bought these at a Black Friday sale, the same as the one I mentioned on Day 268.

Day 350 - small gold chandeliers

These are like mini-me versions of the pair from Day 95. So I think they must have been a present from someone because I don't think I would but some that are so similar to another pair. But then again, you never can tell.

Day 349 - giant dream catchers

As I said a couple of days ago, I got these in Chinatown. They're quite marvellous as earrings go and got lots of comments.

Day 348 - big gold flowers

I love this pair: lovely and showy! Which seemed suitable for the opening night of our amazing show. A most successful opening night if I do say so myself.

Man, I love these people.

Day 347 - drag queen chandeliers

I love this pair. I bought them for my sister's 21st which had a fantasy theme. I got to wear a purple cape which is possibly the coolest thing in the history of the planet.

I hired that cape and was very sad to have to give it back. But then my fantabulous aunt found me a purple velvet cape so I now really do own a cape. And it is fully awesome. And currently can be seen on stage at the Masque in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), although I don't wear it.

Day 346 - large silver dream catchers

As my sister remarked when I wore these, it would appear that I have quite a lot of dream catcher earrings. Five previous ones in fact: the delicate pair from Day 279, the slightly larger but still modest pair from Day 145, Day 298's slightly larger again pair, the fairy pair from Day 107 and the small in terms of the dream catcher but not in terms of the feathers pair from Day 244. And now these, slightly bigger ones. I also have a rather enormous pair of dream catchers I found in Chinatown last weekend so that's seven dream catchers in all. Yup, that's quite a few.

Day 345 - purple leopard print

I suspect these were another R10 pair because I don't like to think I spent more than that! Having said that, I do quite like these, even if they are not at first glance something I would immediately choose.

Wore them on Tuesday to our first rehearsal with an actual audience. OK, so there were 6 people but it made such a difference. We are so ready for this show.

Day 344 - Kenya circles

I bought these in Kenya, which I visited (and may have mentioned once or twice since) back on Day 129.

Day 343 - purple leaves

One from the supplementary collection. I like these, rather obviously, because they're purple. I left them at the theatre today by accident because I had to take them off for tech rehearsal and then was so mentally and physically exhausted afterwards that I forgot to put them back on. So I ended up at my friend's house visiting the Tribe baby sans earrings. Sacrilege.

Day 342 - silver triangles

I may have mentioned before that I like triangles. Definitely like these ones. Plus they make a lovely tinkly sound.

Day 341 - silver lizards

Another pair I adopted because it not being worn by its previous owner. I think they're really cool. Even though they're not the same shape, they make me think of Shmuzzles. My parents have a couple of those puzzles - they are damned hard but really fun to try and oh so satisfying when you finally get them right!

Day 340 - banana leaf rings

Like the spirals from Day 21, these are made from rolled banana leaves. They are from my supplementary collection so I've no idea where they come from originally. Probably a flea market or similar stall.

Day 339 - red necklaces

More necklaces that work better as earrings! They attended a very uplifting rehearsal today. We even had a bit of an audience which was nice. Plus their feedback was super positive so I am now very excited for this play to open!

Day 338 - gold ladies

This is an interesting pair. I bought it from one of those stands in the mall (Kenilworth Centre actually) because they were R10. I can't resist R10 earrings.

Day 337 - dangly hoops

No idea where these are from, but they're fun. I wore them to the CATAs on Monday, which made me realise we must be nearing a year of earrings now because I distinctly remember writing that about another pair of earrings last year. Well, that and the fact that we are now under 30 days away from 365 ...

Day 336 - green peace signs

If I remember correctly, these were part of my Christmas present from my sister. I wore them to a super energetic rehearsal on Sunday - 6 hours we worked. But the show is in fantastic shape so it was all worth it.

Day 335 - silver chains

Today was supposed to be a pyjama day in which I didn't leave my house or even put on proper clothes. That didn't happen though since I had to take my friend home in the morning so I had to put on clothes. So I went shopping too. Yes, I bought earrings. And things that aren't earrings but soon will be. Don't judge me.

Then another friend dropped by with some pink bubbly wine and Nik Naks so it turned into a whole day. Oh well. Here's to Nik Naks!

Day 334 - pretty colours

These are pretty - and sparkly. I think I got them as a present cause they're not the sort of thing I would buy for myself. I like them though.

The stones on the one kept trying to make a run for it when I wore them. In fact the whole one earring kept falling off my ear. Useless butterfly. I must remember to use rubber stops when I wear these again.

I wore them on Friday to get my hair fabloused by the fabulous Marius:

Pink and blue and purple everywhere. I am a magnificent unicorn.

Day 333 - more butterflies

These are like a morph of Day 3 and Day 181, so a properly Kim pair of earrings. Plus they look sort of Chinatown-eque.

Day 332 - dog tags

I got these when I was about 16 - think my Dad had them made for me. They are actually proper dog tags with my full name, blood type and ID number, but since I stopped wearing any sort of necklace quite a few years ago I decided it was time they became earrings. Pretty cool ones, I think.

Day 331 - colourful triangles

I think I bought these at a shop at Cape Town station. I like them for the interesting colours and also because they're triangles. I wore them for our first rehearsal on the stage for The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), which opens on 25 February. Speaking of which, we have a poster!

We are fabulous.

Day 330 - Bubbly cards

These are what you get your tasting credits on at the annual Franschhoek Bubbly Fest. I obviously had multiple floating around so of course they needed to be turned into earrings. They got a lot of comments, I must say. One person even asked me if I was a designer. Yeah, right!

Day 329 - green T-rexes

The third of the dinosaurs that go with those from Day 209 and Day 241. As I explained on Day 209, these were part of a set of three key rings with augmentations reading "Best" "Friends" "Forever". At the risk of sounding soppy, these were completely fitting for today since I spent the day with four of my very best friends as we built the set for our show, which is happening later this month.

Sort of a side note, since I went home and changed earrings after set build (don't worry, I changed clothes too), I also went to Roxette's 30th anniversary tour concert today. So many memories, and so much respect for Marie. I saw them when they were in Cape Town in 2012 and I am so impressed she is still sticking with the performing. She doesn't have to. But she wants to. I was struck also by how behind her the fans are. You could feel the whole crowd supporting her as she strove to sing, and when she faltered, the crowd was there to take up the lyrics. That's impressive. In fact, it must have been love.

When she was singing "Watercolours in the Rain", there was a drunk group of girls standing behind me that were being loud and obnoxious and we were all shooting poisonous looks at. Someone eventually admonished them to "Shut up!" and, I swear, the whole of Golden Circle nodded in approval.

Day 328 - more gold bangles

Like the pair from day 295, I believe these began their lives as bangles. Well, too bad. I don't wear bangles.

They certainly attracted quite a bit of comment today when I went to the Franschhoek Summer Wines festival at Leopard's Leap. Love that venue: absolutely gorgeous and they make some pretty darned delicious cocktails. We spent a wonderful day there, sampling wine, drinking cocktails and talking kak (as we do), and rounded off the day with some wine-soaking-up carbs at one of my favourite places: The Station pub. Cheers, girls!

Day 327 - bead flamingos

I made these for my mother because she complained she had no flamingo earrings. So when I found these (key rings, unsurprisingly, though I can't remember where I found them), I simply had to buy them and transform them.

I have recently rewatched all five seasons of Boston Legal so of course these make me think of Alan Shore and Denny Crane: