Butterflies and Hurricanes

The muse struck, so I started working last night and on the subway this morning. I just finished earrings V.3.1:



Yeah, not the greatest shot, but it's annoying when you can't see what you're trying to take a picture of. Since I'm wearing butterfly earrings today, I decided I just had to work in the Muse reference. Here's a better shot:



It makes me think of cows trapped in a tornado, haha. Completely unintentional, but if I ever find miniature cow beads, I'm totally doing it.

And then there was one

Like I said a couple of posts ago, earrings and scarves just don't get along. Or is it earrings and hoods? Either way, on the way home last night I discovered that one of my earrings was gone. I was upset because this was the pair I made myself!! Not to mention this was the second earring I had lost in a span of maybe a week or a week and a half. My big comfy scarf pushes the hooks/posts out of my ears, sigh. So here's what I was left with.



Here was the one I lost last week. Luckily it was easily replaced after a trip to Express.


And there was a happy ending to this story as well. It just took a little more work, and the right supplies.


So far so good...


Success! I have a pair again! Apparently my jewelry-making skills haven't improved significantly from my first go at it, but at least that means they're pretty symmetrical.

No, that's not a stitch counter

Yeah, so apparently earrings and scarves don't mix well. I had a little unbundling mishap when I got to work this morning...



Wait, here's a closeup.


Noooo! It's a yarn emergency!! Now, what I don't understand is how these things can hook themselves on so easily, yet be such an ordeal to remove. This probably the 5th time this has happened (same scarf, different earrings) and each time the earring won't let go without a fight. You can see the battle scars from this bout:



Not so bad from afar, but still...! I know it's there.