Day 174 - homemade mosaics

I made these.

I found a super awesome, super dangerous craft shop at Long Beach Mall in Noordhoek. Seriously, I could spend all my money in there in order to make more earrings. I flipping drive there all the way from Kenilworth (I've gotten very Capetonian about distances: 25 k's is very freaking far for me now). I got all the stuff I made these with from that shop. And I will go back. As I said, it's dangerous.

And, yes, the different colours are deliberate, because too much symmetry is boring. And, yes, also, I did just reference a Jim Carrey film. Because it's pretty damned hilarious.

Day 173 - silver fan chandeliers

So it turns out 173 is too many for me to hold in my head. I had to do a complete reorganise of my collection to separate those pairs that I've worn from those that I still haven't worn. The result is that the ones I've worn almost completely fill my storage area:

Compare this to the beginning.

But I still have a substantial number that I haven't worn yet so I have had to call in my super handy creative friend Mandy to come up with a new storage solution for me. Stay tuned.

Day 172 - mismatched whale tail

I've managed to lose the partners of both these earrings so I paired them together on Friday. Makes life more interesting I think.

I seem to be following a trend with recent posts, going from shells and Finding Nemo to mesh hoops that made me think of whales to today's whale tail. Totally not planned.

Day 171 - mesh hoops

Well the title pretty much says it all - these are silver mesh hoops. They sort of put me in mind of a whale's mouth: the baleen. Since I already mentioned Finding Nemo in the last post, I feel I should make a different reference to whales at this point. So I will mention a Sierra game I replayed (for about the trillionth time) recently, King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella.

Holy hell, but climbing that damned whale's tongue was a pain in the butt! And the twinkly fall-down-oh-no-I'm-dazed-now sound effect got to be really freaking annoying after the seventh time.

Looking at the picture now I see this whale has teeth rather than baleen, which is a bit odd. I had in my head the notion that only sperm whales had teeth (I think QI lied to me about that), but a quick Google visit has relieved me of that misconception.

Day 170 - shell hoops

Another pair I bought in Kenya. Simple yet effective, just the way I like 'em. And the shells give me a nice, if tenuous, reason to throw in a clip from Finding Nemo, because I watched it the other day and was reminded of how much I love that film:

Day 169 - silver leaf diamonds

A familiar layout here with the 1-2-3-4-3-2-1 arrangement like the blue ones from day 97. I like the arrangement because it's simple and effective and with light, fun shapes like these, you get a pleasing sparkly end product that also makes a fun tinkling sound. Perfect Kim earrings, really.

Day 168 - silver sprays

I haven't the foggiest clue where these might've come from but I really quite like them, if that's not an oddly oxymoronic combination of adverbs. They do tend to blow about a bit and poke me in the eye sometimes, but what can you expect from long pointy bits of metal?