Sometime in the past 15 years I developed an allergy to nickel so severe my dermatologist was alarmed by my recent reaction to a patch test. One month later, a red square lingers on the oh, so delicate skin on my back. The doctor assures me it will fade in time, but since I can’t see it, who cares? Oh yeah, that would be my husband, who points it out regularly.

Anyway, now that I have confirmation that wearing any of my old earrings (and a favorite watch, siiiigh) is out of the question, I decided to turn my lemons into lemonade and convert the earrings into pendants! I know I’m hardly the first person to think of this, but I am proud that it occurred to me at 6:15am as I was getting ready for work. So now I have a cute little pendant that’ll be great with that deco trend Lucky promises will be So. Big. This. Fall. And now that the pliers are out, who knows? I may not need to buy necklaces again for at least another year. That’s four whole shopping seasons!

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