gratuitous presents post

[ursula]

glasseye commissioned earrings from Bill Dawson for my birthday, based on fifth- and sixth-century Germanic jewelry. They're silver hoops with truncated cubes at the bottom, which makes them geeky in at least three different ways.


The earrings:



Fifth- and Sixth-Century Originals:

East Germanic, fifth century:



Danube, second half of fifth century:



Danube, second half of sixth century:

Comments

[ex-greythist387.livejournal.com]

Very nice.

[aryanhwy.livejournal.com]

Very pretty! And they definitely rank high on my geek-o-meter. This is the first time I've heard "truncated cube" after my abstract alg course two years ago!

[reasie.livejournal.com]

my god that's hawt! Does he know you well or what? :)

Once again proving that men named Brian are the best lovers. :)

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

Nifty!

[ornerie.livejournal.com]

dawsons work is awesome as always and your boy picked the perfect ones for you :)

[ursula]

He didn't just pick them out, he found the photos of the originals based on my vague description of "this cool thing I saw at the Met" :)

[ursula]

Just as long as you don't try to trade ;)

Cool

[(Anonymous)]

I like them... even thro I don't wear earrings... I also seen a pic of your then interst me... if you AIM or an E-mail I would like to talk with you a bit ^_^ Hope you don't mind...

~Sildra

AIM: Sildra SD
E-mail: sildrasd@lycos.com

[lingbo.livejournal.com]

Very nice! And just a random thought, I still remember you guys were together waaayyy back when I was like, thirteen/fourteen or so when I first knew you. That means it's been a very long time. :D Kudos!

[ursula]

Er, thanks!

(You know, when I saw you talking about college visits, my thought was more like, "Wow, I've been in grad school a long time!")