The Mystery Thing Revealed: Purple Passion Pendant

Time for the reveal!  If you're just popping in, we have been playing a round of Guess the Mystery Thing featuring this upcycled necklace:

My readers have been trying to identify the purple and black focal piece.  What the heck is this thing?

 I also made a crazy ring and an extra-long giant version of the pendant - let's see if showing them will help at all...

Think you know the answer?  Did anybody get this right?  All shall be told in a minute.

First, here's Mich's Honor Roll of Most Creative (Totally Wrong) Guesses:

Betsy: Where did you find purple lady bugs? 
arisraver: Part of a hair brush handle.
Angeline:  I truly admire your bravery! How did you manage to grasp the technology to enlarge the body of an ant, behead it, and dye it purple?!
Jill:  Looks like part of a pen my daughter owns.  Wondered where it had disappeared to!
Rebecca:  The bottle from those little favour sized bubbles.  If so, I hope to see a cool unique pair of earrings made with the bubble wands.
Dena:  Grapes. Wear it now, eat it later.
squarefeet:  Easter bunny pellets.
Jessica:  Beads from an abacus.
Amy: Barbie's jawbreakers.



Hahaha!  Great work, team!  Angeline's guess is too cool!  Hey, squarefeet, are 'Easter bunny pellets' what I think they are?  If so, hilarious.

Here comes the answer.


Ready?



Steady?



Alright already.



It's...

From the dollar store, of course.  (Query: do 'Easter straws' appear in the King James Version, or the New American Standard Bible?  I'm sure there's a scholar somewhere who can point me to the verse.)

Anyhow, they are weirdly cute and I doctored them up with a black Sharpie.

Winners, winners!  This week we have two lucky  prize winners chosen by random.org: Rebecca Anne and Arisraver.  Congrats, you two!  Look for my email, coming soon.

Note: player Bonnie B guessed "part of a bumpy straw," and would have been the winner, but didn't include an email.  Sorry, Google-plus people, I can't email you directly from your profile.  Bonnie, if you send me your address I'll send you a consolation prize.

Thanks for playing, everybody.  See ya!