peachy keen livin the dream

This pair of earrings has two hand-folded miniature paper cranes in peach (the color peach, not inside of a peach), lacquered for strength and durability (very sturdy! Carefully lacquered paper maintains a bit of flex, so they’re reinforced but not brittle), arranged vertically between pink and yellow glass beads, with a small bronze-colored glass tube bead accent, on stainless steel hardware. The wingspan of each crane measures just shy of ¾" (super tiny!), and the bottom of the earring hangs just about 1.5" from the earlobe. Paper cranes are lightweight but substantial, and a few glass beads give these earrings a real good dangle.

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Ever been mailed a fruit?
    The thing was so plastered with postage stamps, I could hardly tell what it was (would your first guess have been “someone must’ve mailed me a fruit”?) They overlapped and were curling up in places, like the scales of a molting dragon, or the sun-blistered shingles of an old weathered house, or any number of those old sayings about when there is way too much postage stuck on a fruit. I was intrigued; “something fancy about a fruit y’gotta unwrap twice,” I thought to myself, and got to work peeling stamps.
    My effort revealed something that was definitely a citrus, but not one I’ve seen before or since. Kind of like an orange lime about the size of a grapefruit. Underneath the very last stamp was a pull tab? Like on a soda can? So then I opened? The fruit? The fruit opened, anyway, with a light effervescent puff, and fell into ten perfect segments; these very earrings stood in the middle like the stamens of this mystery citrus snailmail sodacan fruit wedge flower. I plucked them to safety, and pondered what to do with the wedges. I only have one friend who might know what fruit this is, but I would have to… well, I’d have to mail it to her. It’s in the freezer for now, but not before I harvested a few of its seeds. I think I’ll plant them.