Working on “bird” earrings, I’ve found myself thinking “it’s for the birds.” Most people know and perhaps use this phrase, but I never thought too much about it. It is an idiom of American origin and means worthless or undesirable. Sometimes the phrase is intensified by adding “strictly” as in something is “strictly for the birds.” It seems that there is more than one reason that the phrase took hold. One is that birds eat bird seed which some think is worthless. Another has to do with the fact that they peck at other animal dropping to get seed from them. This is definitely repulsive and the next time I hear someone use the phrase, I mustn’t assume they are thinking of where the birds hunt those seeds. Yuk!
Below are some of the new bird earrings. They look pretty simple to make and certainly should be; however, my difficulty as it always is with earrings has to do with getting two birds that are the same shape.
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In light of the connotation for the title, I think I’ll rename the top two pair of earrings with the phrase “shake your tail feathers”; yet, I guess that, too could have a bad connotation. Perhaps I need to just stop with the phrases while I’m ahead. However . . .
I’ll fly from this birdy post with just one last phrase . . . “Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie . . . “ Do you remember that nursery rhyme? Below, is the valentine chocolate pie I baked for my spouse today, but I assure you it isn’t “for the birds” and there are NO birds in it. Happy Valentines Day to You! (This day is NOT for the birds!)
