* My First Pair of Earrings

Feeling somewhat better today, although I must say it comes and goes.  One minute I think I'm cured, the next I am coughing, hacking and finding it hard to swallow.  I know, this tooooo shall pass.

Experimenting with earrings today.  I don't have the proper supplies, however, I had harvested some beads and findings from old jewelry I had.  The day of the dead charms are new.  Actually, I'm waiting for a Catrina charm ... then I want to make pairs with the man with the guitar on one earring and the Catrina on the other.  Fun.   (Interesting ... female Day of the Dead figures are called Catrina's ... what are the males called?)

So here's my first attempt.  Tricky getting that wire wrapped neatly.  Will have to practice.

Round the centre of the covered market, where there is a basin of water, are the flowers: red, white, pink roses in heaps, many-coloured little carnations, poppies, bits of larkspur, lemon and orange marigolds, buds of madonna lilies, pansies, a few forget-me-nots. They don't bring the tropical flowers. Only the lilies come wild from the hills, and the mauve red orchids."
- - - D. H. Lawrence " Mornings in Mexico "