Origins.

I'd like to share a find from last weekend's thrift store escapades:

Firstly, to lay some ground work, I'd like to explain a collection I've started. I (not for fashion, per se, but for comedy and my own strange pleasure) have grown a liking for earrings of the animal variety. When I go to thrift stores or garage sales, my eye is on the proverbial hunt for any kind of animalia ear trash.

Just last Sunday, bless my lucky stars, I found a treasure trove. Let's have a look, shall we?

"Coastal Classics"


That's right. WHALE EARRINGS.

So, no matter how awesome you think that this post already is...just you wait. When I said I found a "treasure trove", I wasn't kidding.

I found my purchase at St. Vincent De Paul's, my favorite thrift store. I was pleased as punch to see these sitting in the middle of the jewelry cabinent, practically calling out to me in their grandeur. After purchasing, I put them in my purse. Later, I got them out, and was preparing to take them off the card they were attached to. Lo! I found a "note from the artist" typed in gold lettering on the back.

Please, listen and revel to the message written on here, which I have entitled Origins.

"From the finest clays of the earth comes the porcelain. From the vast array of colors in the minerals of the earth comes the pure mineral paint. From the sea and the shore comes the awesome subject matter. From the artists' hand comes the image painted this exact size. From the intense heat of the kiln comes the firing process that makes this fine art on porcelain last through the ages. May you enjoy owning this fine piece as much as Julie enjoyed painting it."



I think I shall enjoy this fine handcrafted jewelry as much, if not more, as Julie did when she created it.

Thank you, Julie. Thank you.