productivity

yesterday and today were awfully wonderfully productive days
(I'm talking about physical manifestations of production)
so

yesterday, in a fit of zest, i baked and baked and baked:
12 banana cinnamon walnut muffins (which were simple and fun to make, but they yielded picture perfect, mouth watering results. i actually did take some photos with the old digital camera but due to my lack of technological know how, they remain in the camera's memory)
about a gazillion chocolate and walnut chip cookies (which took forever to make because there was about 3 or 4 batches of about 11 to 12 each time. good god, if you do the math that's 36 to 48 cookies!!!)

and then, because the creative juices were still flowing i decided to make earrings, having already bought 6pairs of earring hooks from spotlight in plaza singapura

so i flipped through the old national geographic magazines, found pictures i loved, cut them out and proceeded to create

i made 3 pairs of earrings:

one looks like 2 large green jewels in a golden setting thing but its really actually 2 spider eyeballs, magnified about a gazillion times. it amazed me that spiders had such perfectly round eyes, and green, and so i decided to use those

another is 2 geisha's (one on each ear) one is carrying part of a parasol (the other part was snipped off mercilessly by my scissors) the interesting thing is that the nape of the geisha's kimono's are pulled lower than a traditional conservative Japanese woman, which was considered quite alluring. another interesting thing is that the red skirts they wear are actually their underwear and so basically, their behavior is altogether shocking. i love that they defied restrictive cultural norms to have fun (they were wading in some river thing) and i was also intrigued at how what was considered rebel behavior in Japanese society would be considered prudish and conservative dressing today as their skirts were full length and the nape of their kimono wasn't even that low.

the last pair is of 2 crabs holding up what appears to be 2 large black pearls, though they are actually also spider eyeball. the crabs are different, one is white, the other, black, and i thought it was a reflection of both our earth's precious biodiversity as well as the colour stigmas in society. you see, when one looks at the black crab and the white crab, you think oh look, 2 crabs. but if one looked at a black person and a white person, one might think, oh look, a black person and a white person, instead of  oh look, 2 humans. it's funny how we lump animals into one indistinguishable category while humans are segregated into many classes and compositions. sometimes i think class/race distinction is a good thing as long as everyone is equal, so there remains a diversity of culture, bu this is hard to achieve i suppose because  of the cultural differences that seem to instigate a reflex assertion of superiority.

after sticking them on cardboard backings and fastening them to the earring hooks, i had to varnish them, a process which i left to this morning.

apart from varnishing the earrings hourly, i also made a headband according to the instructions (well, mostly) of a most fabulous fashion DIY website called P.S i made this. (the earrings were also inspired by the website) the head band was made with part of a broken necklace chain, a string that came with a bag i bought once, and some bygone ribbon that is remnant of a class cheer in one of my 4 years in SC. it  was harder to make than the earrings, albeit faster, because i had to break the necklace chain by twisting one chain link open, and use a knitting needle to screw holes in the bag string thing.
but it came out quite pretty and i was proud of making it.

but i think that's probably the limit to my creativity this holiday, or at least today, and it's back to humdrum life tomorrow.