Day 30 - Sarasota squares

I bought these from a little shop in Sarasota, Florida, during a trip I took with my roommate in 2008/2009. We stayed with her uncle, who took us to Sarasota one day.

The rest of the days we spent at Disney World. A friend of ours got us free tickets because he had worked there during a previous summer. Useful person to know! It was my first ever trip to Disney World, as evidenced by my "first visit" badge:

I think I was the oldest person wearing that badge by about 20 years.

But what's the point of going to Disney World if you can't act like a kid? So I did. I even met Bolt and Rhino who were, at the time, my absolute favourite Disney characters. It was FULLY AWESOME, even though the guy in the Rhino suit laughed at me when I high-fived him.

Day 29 - aquamarine drops

This pair was a birthday present from my maternal grandparents many aeons ago. It's simple but pretty and in order to make more out of them, since they are a little on the small side, I wear big hoops with them. That's a trick I use with a lot of my earrings that, like these, are too small to be "real" earrings but that I want to still wear for various sentimental reasons. So I have quite a few plain hoops that I don't wear by themselves but rather use for accenting and accentuating. And it's fun to play mix 'n' match with the various sizes and colours.

Day 28 - candy lightning

Nelis calls these my candy earrings cause he reckons the coloured bits look like sweeties. They’re certainly quite fun and make the obligatory clinking noise when I move my head so they’re proper Kim earrings. 

They made lovely clanking noises today as we headed off in a boat from Hout Bay harbour to look at (and smell) the seals on Duiker Island because a) we hadn't done that in absolute years and b) we had a Brit to look after and needed to show him a proper last day in Cape Town. That was great, until we got a smidge soaked. Or, in David's case, rather a lot more than a smidge. But that's part of the fun of a boat trip, and the beer afterwards at Lookout Deck made up for the knotty hair and chilly wet top. Plus, David's advanced state of moistness gave us the perfect excuse to make him almost a proper tourist at last (we had spent the day unsuccessfully trying to persuade him that it is customary and indeed vital to the economy that all tourists leave SA with a wooden giraffe):

Day 27 - Arabian nights

Another nice tinkly pair, also, I think, from Woolworths. I told you, it used to be a problem.

Day 26 - silver octo-rings

These I definitely got from Woolworths. It used to be a serious problem for me that the Woolies  near where I work had the earrings display set up so that you had to walk past it to get to the food section. Since I generally go in there to buy lunch, this meant that nine times out of ten I’d end up buying a sandwich or salad and a pair of earrings. I swear they just leap off the shelves (wait, earrings aren't on shelves … rails?) into my hands without the intervention of my brain. The earring display has now moved so I instead walk past the shoes on my way to the food, which poses much less of a burden on my bank account, although I admit I own my fair share of Woolies shoes, particularly stacked flip flops and boots.

Day 25 - red thread circles

These are red and round.

Seriously, that's all I got. I cannot recall a single detail about where I got these or when. I have a feeling that this will not turn out to be a unique pair in that regard.

I have a couple of pairs made with thread. It works well as an earring material because it's very light and you can get very pretty patterns quite easily. It does make the earrings slightly delicate, though, so in my "care" they tend to fall apart quite quickly.

Day 24 - Chinatown discs

A pair of Chinatown specials. I love Chinatown - it's like Kim earring central. They have cheap stuff that is generally different and unusual. Without fail when I shop there (usually for "yuck" presents - those secondary presents you give to specifically elicit the reaction "dafuq?" - or bits and pieces for a costume or fancy dress outfit), I invariably find two or three pairs have spontaneously jumped into my hands while I'm in the queue to pay. Luckily, though they usually take up large amounts of my storage space, they tend to only add 15 or 20 bucks to my bill.