A Spanish Spring

Holiday shopping is the best shopping you can do. Why? Because when faced with the terrible decision of whether to purchase some little tidbit or not, you can, with a clear conscience, ask yourself “when am I going to be in Barcelona/Sitges/Marrakesh/Saigon/Hong Kong/Dubai again?” and then you can quite happily go ahead and buy the thing. Of course, you might run into trouble when your bag starts getting fat and you still have miles to go.

Oh, you don’t know where Sitges is? I threw that in because that is where I sprang upon this delicious coil of lipstick red leather. Sitges is a little Spanish coastal resort town full of twisty streets and positively stuffed with tempting boutiques. Like most coastal resort towns it is quite expensive, but I managed to find some souvenir bargains. I don’t remember the name of this particular boutique, but I do recall I didn’t like much else in the shop (or maybe it was just outrageously expensive and I convinced myself I didn’t like it), except for this snakeskin bracelet. So the spring was sprung.

It looks like a little sculpture, doesn’t it? I don’t know how or with what the designer treated it, but it has quite a lot of tension in it that does not seem wholly due to its shape. If I stretch it out it – ahem, if you’ll excuse the pun – just springs back to its original form. Cute, si?

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