....that these earrings I bought in Guizhou last year have characters written in the designs. I'm not sure why this made me so happy, but it did. So, here are some pictures. The one on the bottom right (but on the left in the picture of both) says 平安 means safe and sound or peaceful/safe/good, and the one on the bottom left (which will not load horizontally!) says 出入which means coming and going. Together it means (as you can probably guess) safe and sound both coming and going 平安出入。
