FREE: 'To Live would be an Awefully Great Adventure' Hand Beaded Clip by Izze & co.

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I have finally completed the Peter Pan Clip.

'To Live would be an Awefully Great Adventure' 3 inch hand beaded clip. Represented here is the big tick tock clock, mermaid lagoon, pirates, London's Big Ben etc......On this clip I used a thimble and acorn as the charm.

Peter Pan did not give Wendy an acorn, despite the scads of interpretations that depict exactly that. According to Mr. Barrie, he gave her an acorn button, which was enough of a distinction to start me wondering. An acorn button began to seem like something so commonplace in the Edwardian era as to need no explanation, but which most of us have no knowledge of now.

And a button seemed so much more reasonable to me. It's this button which Wendy puts on a chain around her neck, which saves her life when the lost boys shoot her down from the sky with an arrow on Tinker Bell's orders. How, I wondered, would Wendy go about putting Peter's acorn on a chain around her neck? Did she pull a tiny drill out of her sewing kit and put a hole through the cap before the sound could wake her parents? LOL.