Art: Earrings

[coraa]

When I get stressed, apparently I make jewelry.

Behind the cut: five more pairs of earrings with fanciful names!



The Moon in Formalwear (Birthday present for jmpava's mother)

From Jewelry May 2009

Kore's Doorway (Mother's Day present for my mother)

From Jewelry May 2009

Dynamics of Snow and Ice (Named after some of ceph's coursework)

From Jewelry May 2009

The Serpent Hetaera (Named after an off-the-cuff comment in istgut's journal)

From Jewelry May 2009

Rain Drums (Part of my 'weather in seattle' earring series :D)

From Jewelry May 2009

Comments

[coraa.livejournal.com]

:D Yeah, that's my usual 'brain is going on the useless anxiety hamsterwheel' solution -- I do something with my hands, often cooking or baking bread, sometimes making jewelry, occasionally, on really bad days, total mindless work like chopping four pounds of herbs for freezing. It works wonders!

Although I also have been resorting to a Discworld reread

[cwendy41.livejournal.com]

Oh! That reminds me, I need to figure out how to harvest oregano and store them. They started growing like crazy and we're not eating them fast enough.

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Well, what I do with fresh herbs is chop them fairly finely, pack them into an ice-cube tray, cover with water and freeze. (You wind up with about a tablespoon and a half of fresh herbs per cube, in a standard ice cube tray.) The herbs come out with their flavor totally intact when you defrost the ice cubes, although a little limp.

You can also dry them, but I've had trouble drying them without getting them dusty.