The Mystery Thing Revealed: A Valentine Post.

So!  For the past few days, my readers have been playing Guess The Mystery Thing, trying to identify the mysterious secret ingredient in these upcycled earrings:

The challenge: guess the origin of those little pink hearts-on-a-stick.  They also come in white:

Think you know the answer?  Did anyone get it right?  Read on to find out!

Before the reveal, some ideas suggested by a few of my goofiest readers.  Here is Mich's Honor Roll of Most Creative (Totally Wrong) Guesses:

Amy: Did you dissect a Cabbage Patch doll and take out its heart?
Saraccino: Tiny shield of the guard of the white or red queen!
Angie: They remind me of female parts with a cute piercing.
Shannon: Cruel tongue depressors used by mean doctors.
Betsy: Leftover fondant.

Love these!  Ha!  Thanks a lot, Betsy, now I'm craving birthday cake.  (But then, I'm always craving birthday cake.)

Okay, okay, time for the answer.  The hearts came from a cute little object I found at a yard sale.

Ready?  Here goes...

They're fence posts from a plastic toy corral.  See how I made a pun with the title of this post?  Oh, yeah, I gotta million of 'em...

I think it might be an accessory for My Little Pony.  Whatever it is, it stole my heart and I bought it.  Then I stole its hearts and made jewelry.

Winners?  Winners!  Well, nobody even came close to guessing this one.  Which means I win again, yay!  But the giveaway must go on, so random.org has chosen two lucky duckies to receive some toy-pony-corral-fence-post-heart-jewelry.  (Hee.  Optimize that, Google.)   This week's fortunate waterfowl:  Marisa and  Olivia.  Congrats, you two, I'll be emailing!

See you next time - and thanks as always for coming over to play with me!