From pearls to pachyderms
A friend in Southern California used to make jewelry and one of my favorite pair of earrings was from her – pearls dangling on a silver frame. Unfortunately, I dipped the whole thing in silver cleaner and stripped the luster right off the pearls.
So I stopped in The Bead Shop on Magazine today and through some sort of surreal process wound up having the woman make a new pair of earrings right in front of me – wooden elephants dancing on a ball that I found in a large bowl of wood carved animals. I hung the elephants from a dangling silver chain and attached them right to the silver frame my pearls were on.
Then she made me a long sterling chain to put the pendant L, man of mystery, gave me.
So after a day of gift buying – remote control truck, plaster shotgun house art, cocktail napkins with pithy sayings, one blown glass water pipe – mama came home with something something too.