Ha! Fooled you! This one IS a pin; it's a pin-pendant. It can be worn either way.
I'm also wearing the matching earrings but they aren't visible. Hey, it's hard enough for someone who's always been non-photogenic to show off my lumps and bumps and wrinkles by showing my neck--you're definitely not going to get a full frontal view of the face!
Anyway, the set is a souvenir of one of our trips to the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, probably ten or twelve years ago. I do remember that we took the motor home and the pugs (at least Lightning and Bert and maybe Bluto, too) and spent three days at the Fiesta in Balloon-Awe. We've been twice and this reminds me it's probably time to go again.
That's the most amazing event, held each year in the first weekend of October. Hundreds of hot air balloons are brought to the Albuquerque fair grounds by both private individuals and corporate entities. It's amazing to see them all tethered to the ground early in the morning, straining at their ropes as the winds pick up.
It was several years later that we finally got our first (and hopefully not our last) hot air balloon ride, that one over Phoenix, but this pin always makes me think of that amazing feeling of floating high above the ground in the equivalent of a wicker napkin basket.
By the way, it's sterling silver with turquoise, malachite and lapis and is signed but I can't read the signature, of course.
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