[Magdalen] Grrr....

Molly Wolf lupa at kos.net
Wed Aug 3 16:37:41 UTC 2016


No: it's lacquer.

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain

> On Aug 3, 2016, at 11:30 AM, Charles Wohlers <charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> Is it *real* cinnabar (mercury sulfide)? If so, perhaps you can hope your original customers get mercury poisoning.   ;-)
> (Apparently, real cinnabar isn't used in jewelry today - at least, one would hope not, for Molly's sake, if nothing else).
> 
> Chad Wohlers
> Woodbury, VT USA
> chadwohl at satucket.com
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Molly Wolf
> Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2016 11:18 PM
> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Grrr....
> 
> 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



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