[Magdalen] Grrr....

[Jay Weigel]

Molly, that is the best ever! I don't make the same necklace twice ever
either.......but something like that would inspire me to. <wicked grin>

On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 11:18 PM, Molly Wolf <lupa at kos.net> wrote:

> I ordered the same cinnabar beads from Panda Hall.  PH = bulk and cheap.
> I've got 100 of the lil darlings on their way.
>
> I never makes the same necklace twice.  Until now.
>
> Molly
>
> The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no
> other way. -- Mark Twain
>
> > On Aug 2, 2016, at 11:12 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I can imagine how that must have made you feel, and you did gud, not
> > getting caught up in this.  I play in a group, and sometimes I just wish
> I
> > could go home due to some attitudes, but of course I don't.
> >
> > Maybe the positive vibes in your opus will exercise a positive change in
> > these people.  You never know.
> >
> > And of course the best revenge (bad word! Slap the hand!) would be to
> > create a few hundred pieces identical to that one.  So one day they'll be
> > showing off their new wonderful thing, and another person will go, "Oh!
> You
> > mean, like THIS?" And pull out the same thing. "And we liked it so much
> we
> > gave one to our daughters too. Hey, Meghan!  Amber! Caroline! Dottie!
> Liz!
> > Felicity! Georgia! Show these nice people your jewelry!" And the girls
> all
> > hold up their own ...
> >
> > Ah, but vengeance is not nice.
> >
> >
> >
> > James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> > *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> > except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
> >
> >> On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 10:19 PM, Molly Wolf <lupa at kos.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> I need to whinge and fume.
> >>
> >> As many of you know, I make jewelry (hi Jay!).  Unlike Jay, my stuff is
> >> strung beads.  I sell at a lovely shop in Alexandria Bay, NY, called Bay
> >> House, an artisans'/artists' co-operative.  I work shifts there, like
> most
> >> of the other members, and I was on duty this afternoon.
> >>
> >> Last week, I took in a set I was especially happy with: rhombus
> >> (square-on-diagonal) cinnabar beads with Czech druk beads (glass) and
> seed
> >> beads:  necklace and matching earrings and bracelet.  I don't have a
> >> picture of it, more's the pity.  But it was a lovely little thing.  I
> sold
> >> it this afternoon to a couple from Ohio.
> >>
> >> Normally, it's a joy to sell my stuff: partly to get it out of the shop
> so
> >> I can make more, and partly because it's like giving a kitten to a good
> >> home.  But while I was ringing up the sale, the buyers got into a
> >> conversation with other customers, about the current U.S. political
> scene,
> >> and it turned out they were ardent Hilary-slandering
> liberal-media-bashing
> >> frothing Trumpites. (Although even so, she expressed the wish that he'd
> >> shut his mouth. Dream on, lady.)
> >>
> >> I am a professional.  I did not snatch my lovely little cinnabar set
> back
> >> from their undeserving hands and bellow "you can't have it!" I completed
> >> the sale, took their money, and bade them goodbye pleasantly.  But I'm
> >> still fuming.
> >>
> >> I just bought a whole bunch of those cinnabar beads from Panda Hall and
> I
> >> am going to recreate the set and sell it to someone who deserves it.  So
> >> there.
> >>
> >> Grrr.
> >>
> >> Molly
> >>
>
>