Dia de los Muertos

Talisman earring.................................................

Working on some

Day Of The Dead jewelry.

I know, rather subdued .

This is a single earring because I find that's

all I seem to be wearing these days.

I will probably make a very short one with 

just a bead and skull to wear with it occasionally.

SO.....................................

I am standing at the jewelry counter at my local Goodwill,

waiting for a "lady"

to get through looking at EVERY single

piece in the counter.

(I go every couple of weeks looking for pieces to take apart)

Finally, realizing she's going to be a very long time,

I asked if I could look with her, after her.

Before long I see her pick up a necklace, and immediately put it down.

I asked the clerk if I could please have a look at it.

I start looking at it, and the lady says VERY loudly, 

"Oh, I could never wear that I am a Christian". 

I realized she thought it had skulls on it. 

I told her....."It's not skulls, it's elephants".

Not listening, not hearing, not caring,

she still went on and on about how she was a Christian and could not wear "it".

I am starting to feel like I have a blinking light

 over my head  flashing HEATHEN!!!!

I turned to the clerk and said "I'll take it please".

                                                                    

This is my new necklace that I am pretty sure is Ivory,

even down to the tiny clasp.

 I now happily own it because she "could never wear that".

I quickly realized that lady had far more problems than I could ever hope to address over

the jewelry counter at the Goodwill.

Cute huh!!

This is my favorite rosary.

It came from a nuns estate in Montreal.

It hangs on my bedpost and when I am particularily

troubled I hold  it in my hands to just feel it.

I am not Catholic but it still comforts me.

I like to think about all the prayers it has heard, and

feel how worn all the many medals are from those prayers.

Oh look..... 

what's that I see at the bottom of the crucifex?

A skull??

I'm pretty sure the nun whose fingers

wore these metals almost smooth was a

CHRISTIAN