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I really have to remember that no matter how much I love reading Amitabh Bachchan's blog and even leaving comments, most of the commentors (the "EF") are totally insane. Or some are totally insane, many are partly insane. Anyway, I am often stupid enough to let some of them bother me, and often it's an issue of snub or neglect rather than attack. Still, I let someone get to me over the weekend, and I let it make me feel lousy. And then -- whoop, mood swing! -- I saw something this morning on Facebook that tickled me no end. Only takes one nice person to counter a dismal mood. I'm lucky enough to have a lot of nice people in my life, so the nasty ones can just take a hike. I only have to remember not to let myself be bothered by them. I'm so oversensitive sometimes.
I made one more of the Village Scandal necklaces this weekend: 8mm lapis beads, with dangles in white "rice krispie" pearls, 4mm round blue agate, 4mm lapis barrels, 4mm iolite saucers. (For those of you scratching your heads: dark opaque blue, white pearls, translucent medium blue, dark opaque blue, transparent dark blue.) The blue and white looks very fresh. I think the third one will be pink and light green, which is pretty much my favorite spring color combo. I have some round 10mm faceted cherry quartz that's been sitting around for a while, and I have insane numbers of all kinds of green beads. And I think some little pink pearls. For some reason, I have way more green and yellow/orange stone beads than any other colors. Way lower on the pink/red, blue, and purple.
I did make the move to silver-plated headpins. It didn't hurt too much. They're sooo much less expensive, and they look fine. And it's really nice to work with material where I don't have to feel stingy. I bought 500 headpins for around $8.
It looks like my PPSC holiday jewelry sale is going to go ahead, except it's been morphed into a crafts fair, which means I'll be alongside other sellers. It'll be small, so there won't be other jewelers, but there may be a potter, a painter, etc. I'm slightly disappointed, because I really wanted (and expected) to have the showcase all to myself; and I'll certainly earn less money. But it's a big vote of confidence and a great opportunity, even a little diluted; the Board of Directors voted to go ahead with it on Friday, so I really have no cause for complaint. The Board rocks, really. I used to take minutes at the Board meetings at NYU Law School, and man, that was a dull group and a dull meeting (although the lunches were pretty good). The PPSC Board is smaller and way less formal, plus I can even make some suggestions or comments and it's OK -- sometimes even very much welcome.
The people at PPSC...well, we all understand that they have professional training that I don't, but no one uses that to put themselves above me. They all act as if we're all talented and useful, just in different areas. No one assumes that I don't know things. When I worked at Tarcher, the editor-in-chief, Mitch, was (and is) a very bright guy, but he tended to assume that other people were not, especially people in lower positions than he was (like me). Once we were coming out of a sales meeting, and he said, about a sales guy in the meeting, "You know, Hal Fessenden's brother is this really crazy avant-garde movie director." I said, "He's Larry Fessenden's brother?" And Mitch said, "How do YOU know about Larry Fessenden?" Pardon me, but fuck you, Mitch. No one would ever do anything like that here...not only that, but they're always quick to give me credit, and always welcome new info and new ideas. It's not just that I'm a little older now and not someone's kid assistant; the people here don't really have anything to prove, and they're mostly pretty warm, kind folk.
I guess I'm counting blessings right about now. Financial need has been twisting my life in a truly miserable way over the past year, with no end in sight. But I work for and with nice people, and I have some very wonderful people in my life.
Apart from making that necklace, I spent a lot of the weekend watching Downton Abbey. Highbrow and addictive. I watched the entire first season on Netflix over a couple of weeks, and then totally cheated and downloaded the entire second season and have now watched all of it. So they'd better hurry up and make that third season! I'm reserving my opinion on HBO's Luck; so far, a lot of good actors, and a whole lot of horse-racing jargon. That guy Gary Stevens is in it, an actual jockey who was also in Seabiscuit. In fact, looking at the IMDB, it seems he won the George Woolf Memorial Jockey award in 1996 before playing George Woolf in Seabiscuit in 2003. You can't get much better trivia than that!
Although...speaking of trivia...I've kind of come late to the game concerning LMFAO. I guess Party Rock Anthem was a huge hit last summer, but I've just discovered it. Those guys are awesome. And here's the cool trivia part: not only are they uncle and nephew, but they're the son and grandson of Berry Gordy!
So I guess I must...
http://youtu.be/KQ6zr6kCPj8
http://youtu.be/MBg1SxfCCM8
http://youtu.be/HnhGU-J5MxE
I made one more of the Village Scandal necklaces this weekend: 8mm lapis beads, with dangles in white "rice krispie" pearls, 4mm round blue agate, 4mm lapis barrels, 4mm iolite saucers. (For those of you scratching your heads: dark opaque blue, white pearls, translucent medium blue, dark opaque blue, transparent dark blue.) The blue and white looks very fresh. I think the third one will be pink and light green, which is pretty much my favorite spring color combo. I have some round 10mm faceted cherry quartz that's been sitting around for a while, and I have insane numbers of all kinds of green beads. And I think some little pink pearls. For some reason, I have way more green and yellow/orange stone beads than any other colors. Way lower on the pink/red, blue, and purple.
I did make the move to silver-plated headpins. It didn't hurt too much. They're sooo much less expensive, and they look fine. And it's really nice to work with material where I don't have to feel stingy. I bought 500 headpins for around $8.
It looks like my PPSC holiday jewelry sale is going to go ahead, except it's been morphed into a crafts fair, which means I'll be alongside other sellers. It'll be small, so there won't be other jewelers, but there may be a potter, a painter, etc. I'm slightly disappointed, because I really wanted (and expected) to have the showcase all to myself; and I'll certainly earn less money. But it's a big vote of confidence and a great opportunity, even a little diluted; the Board of Directors voted to go ahead with it on Friday, so I really have no cause for complaint. The Board rocks, really. I used to take minutes at the Board meetings at NYU Law School, and man, that was a dull group and a dull meeting (although the lunches were pretty good). The PPSC Board is smaller and way less formal, plus I can even make some suggestions or comments and it's OK -- sometimes even very much welcome.
The people at PPSC...well, we all understand that they have professional training that I don't, but no one uses that to put themselves above me. They all act as if we're all talented and useful, just in different areas. No one assumes that I don't know things. When I worked at Tarcher, the editor-in-chief, Mitch, was (and is) a very bright guy, but he tended to assume that other people were not, especially people in lower positions than he was (like me). Once we were coming out of a sales meeting, and he said, about a sales guy in the meeting, "You know, Hal Fessenden's brother is this really crazy avant-garde movie director." I said, "He's Larry Fessenden's brother?" And Mitch said, "How do YOU know about Larry Fessenden?" Pardon me, but fuck you, Mitch. No one would ever do anything like that here...not only that, but they're always quick to give me credit, and always welcome new info and new ideas. It's not just that I'm a little older now and not someone's kid assistant; the people here don't really have anything to prove, and they're mostly pretty warm, kind folk.
I guess I'm counting blessings right about now. Financial need has been twisting my life in a truly miserable way over the past year, with no end in sight. But I work for and with nice people, and I have some very wonderful people in my life.
Apart from making that necklace, I spent a lot of the weekend watching Downton Abbey. Highbrow and addictive. I watched the entire first season on Netflix over a couple of weeks, and then totally cheated and downloaded the entire second season and have now watched all of it. So they'd better hurry up and make that third season! I'm reserving my opinion on HBO's Luck; so far, a lot of good actors, and a whole lot of horse-racing jargon. That guy Gary Stevens is in it, an actual jockey who was also in Seabiscuit. In fact, looking at the IMDB, it seems he won the George Woolf Memorial Jockey award in 1996 before playing George Woolf in Seabiscuit in 2003. You can't get much better trivia than that!
Although...speaking of trivia...I've kind of come late to the game concerning LMFAO. I guess Party Rock Anthem was a huge hit last summer, but I've just discovered it. Those guys are awesome. And here's the cool trivia part: not only are they uncle and nephew, but they're the son and grandson of Berry Gordy!
So I guess I must...
http://youtu.be/KQ6zr6kCPj8
http://youtu.be/MBg1SxfCCM8
http://youtu.be/HnhGU-J5MxE
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