Oct. 29th, 2009

ellarien: red beads (beading)
I wore this necklace today, or at least this morning, and it was working pretty well with the peat-colored cords and dark red sweater until I was walking to the lunch table in the University's swankiest restaurant -- the one where the faculty are waited on by nicely-dressed students -- with my boss and a bunch of out-of-town visitors. At that point one of the crimps let go, scattering beads in all directions. I think we recovered all the important ones and quite a lot of the spacers, and it wasn't a particularly formal group, but it was still embarrassing. By the looks of it, that crimp may never have been properly squished at all. I suppose I should be thankful it didn't succumb to gravity on the bus, or in the middle of the street.

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Oct. 29th, 2009 09:48 pm
ellarien: red beads (beading)
I have reassembled the necklace, but I'm not sure the crimp is going to hold. Maybe it's just too much weight for a single strand and crimp, particularly with the pre-bent wire. I may have to wear it around the house for a while and see what happens, and maybe restring the whole thing with double wire, or even hook it together with looped pins.

The promised contractor appears to have cut a book-sized patch of drywall out of my bathroom wall and stuck it back with the local equivalent of polyfilla. So far so good on gurglings and eruptions, but I hope someone is going to reinstate the wall a bit better than it currently is.

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