Ceramics Class Pass: Steer into the Grid

Bull as a China Shop Necklace

Top: Pink Republic, Kohl's
Dress: Xhilaration, Target
Shoes: Shoe Carnival
Bag: T-Shirt & Jeans, Kohl's
Bag charms: Staples
Sunglasses: JCPenney
Belt: Belt is Cool, Amazon

So, first things first about this Bull as a China Shop Necklace. 1) It's a steer, not a bull (I can tell because a bull would never consent to become an accessory), and 2) one floral pattern does not a china shop make.  In other words, this entire pun is built on a lie.  Still, there's a message in it.  As in, don't ever let anyone tell you that all good crafts don't start with castration.

I was never a big fan of ceramics class.  For one thing, I didn't like the clay.  I hated working with the cold, wet sludge, coaxing it into coils that looked like dead snakes or a gargoyle's innards just to make some boring tchotchke.  But I like the look of finished ceramics, especially those wrought by a hand much more skilled than mine.  Maybe that's why I was drawn to this steer head.  Sure, it's not exactly ceramic, but some kind of synthetic enamel fused in a factory.  Yet it still has a homespun charm that's just glam enough to be interesting.  I guess that's why I made it the star of this here rhinestone necklace -- then posted it on the blog.  Which is as sure an act of, ahem, steering into the skid that the hook-me-to-the-grid-forever Internet has to offer.  And that's no bull.

I knew I could ram a real pun in there.