In pursuit of gold

how's that for a huge nose stud?

All fixed!

On my last trip to Kenya I got my nose pierced. My nose healed nicely and, when a friend gave me a gold stud for my birthday (to match the style most women with pierced noses here have), I pulled out the old one and put in the new one. The new one didn't fit very well, so I pulled it out and adjusted it with a handy pair of pliers, then put it back in.

Three weeks later, I rubbed my nose and the nose stud broke! I'm guessing I killed its' structural integrity when I amateur-fixed it. Now, I've been told that nose piercings close up pretty quickly, so I put an earring in to keep the hole open. Unfortunately, I own zero stud-style earrings. My housemate was kind enough to loan me a pearl stud so I could go out of the house without a dangle earring in my nose. I went off to a nearby town to look for either a new nose stud or a jeweler to fix my old stud.

The goldsmith at work

After a couple re-directions, I ended up waiting on a corner for the goldsmith to show up for work. He finally showed up at 11 AM, looked at the nose stud, and spent less than 10 minutes re-making it. And I even got him to make it fit my nose better! All in a "normal" morning off. Whew!