Frog & Dragonfly

Didn't have time to post this one yesterday, but better late than never, eh? This is another crap iSight photo: the dimensionality is a bit under-played while the colours are a little exaggerated, but the details are at least visible.

The background to the pin is painted metal. The next layer up has the painted lily and a real stone, both surrounded by the decorated bronze frame. The top layer has the painted frog and dragonfly, so the pin is truly three-dimensional. Surprisingly for such a detailed piece, the pin's not signed, so I can't tell you anything about the designer/maker.

I picked this because I thought I was going to be the iron fist in Christy's velvet glove at the mechanic's shop, so I wanted a serene scene to retreat to afterwards. After I put the pin on, I heard that there'd be no confrontation because the relevant idiots wouldn't be there. Rather than boil with frustration and rage at the shoddiness of Mazda Escondido's service (and, paradoxically, the lack of same), I stuck with my pin choice and stayed calm and only occasionally irritable.