223 Beaded Jewelry

223 Beaded Jewelry

Object: Hand made daisy chain chokers (and a bracelet)

Acquired: Unknown

From: I made them

Notes: I learned how to make beaded daisy chains like this at summer camp, and as you can see, I made a whole bunch of them, some better than others. I actually prefer to wear chokers over other necklaces, so most of these I wore at least a little before I stopped.

I hope you can forgive me for putting them all in the same shot, I just didn't think we wanted to live through seven posts all of the same thing. Not that we haven't before, but I like to learn from my mistakes, too.

194 Name Bracelet

194 Name Braclet

Object: Bracelet spelling out my name

Acquired: Unknown

From: Made it myself

Notes: Guess who this belongs to.  I could have slid the "is" beads around to sit next to the others, but the elastic is old, and there is something very, very creepy about old elastic, and I don't want to mess with it.

192 Bracelet

192 Bracelet

Object: Plastic pastel-leaved bracelet

Acquired: Unknown

From: I might have made it, actually

Notes: I used to wear chunky plastic girly jewelry on occasion back in fourth grade.  I think I made this, but it would have been one of those occasionally-worn bracelets.

141 Watch

141 Watch

Object: Minni Mouse watch

Acquired: Unknown Christmas

From: Unknown

Notes: This was my first watch, and I wore it for years until the battery died. Then  we got the battery replaced, but not too long after I lost it at my grandmother's condo.  We found it a year or two later, and I think it was still keeping time, but by then I'd moved on to other watches.  It's ironic that I can barely read face-clocks anymore.

You might notice that the clasp has been removed from the end, that's because I used the buckle-thing in a craft project--or I was going to use it, which is really the same thing. You can't buy watch-buckles like that in craft stores, did you know? You can buy watch faces, though.

140 Watch

140 Watch

Object: Magic 8-ball watch

Acquired: Unknown Christmas

From: Aunt Mariella

Notes: My mom's sister always gave us the strangest gifts. Occasionally they were useful as well, like this watch, for example, I wore it for years before the battery died, at which point I think I had it replaced.  Actually, I cannot now recall why I stopped using this watch. It was awesome, really, because it had this magic-8-ball function where it could answer yes/no questions in ...I think seven different ways? Not sure. But I had many a conversation with this watch.  Also, it had a 'screen saver' function where triangles would blink slowly on the screen. Good times.

139 Bracelet

139 Bracelet

Object: Silver and turquoise bracelet

Acquired: Unknown

From: Mom

Notes: I dropped this one day and cracked the stone. I think it was more a loaned-to-me thing before that, but I can't give it back to mom now because she'd know I broke it... Or such was my reasoning when it happened eons ago. It's actually sterling silver, so if I wore it it'd clean up to be shiny.  Sterling silver is so awesome.

138 Watch

138 Watch

Object: Harry Potter Watch

Acquired: Unknown Christmas

From: Mom and Dad, I believe

Notes: I liked Harry Potter. I think this is from before the movies came out, because the art changed after they did. I believe I got two watches that Christmas, and since the other one was digital, I never really wore this one. Eventually I did wear it for a while, and it was fun to sit in class and watch Harry almost catch the snitch once every minute, but really I can barely read face clocks, so I never knew what time it was. And by the time I wanted to wear it, the battery was already on its way out.

095 Bracelets

095 Bracelets

Object: Two gel bracelets

Acquired: Spring 2010

From: Camp Miniwanca

Cost: My soul and self-esteem

Notes: These are from my last outdoor ed job, which was a horrible terrible no-god very-bad job. To summarize; I couldn't do anything right, but never understood what I was doing wrong and ended up fired just before I was going to quit.  I tossed out nearly everything else I got from them, but I thought I might want these later in life. At the very least they serve as a focal point for my lingering anger and resentment.

I actually had three of these for awhile, but the bunny ate one of them. I felt it was fitting.