in which I mutter about matching metals
Oct. 10th, 2012 12:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
incandescensI should not be thinking of my upcoming holiday. I should instead be concentrating on the many tasks that I have to complete before then. And on the fact that my team leader is off to a conference for several days on the day after tomorrow, so I had better remember to raise anything really urgent with her tomorrow.
Incidentally, the new (that is, Halloween and Christmas special) stuff is in at Lush. I must pay a visit there tomorrow. Probably in my lunch break, because then I get the additional bonus of showing off any purchases to coworkers after lunch, which is always fun.
Have also just finished a necklace and earrings for a coworker. The beads are of a rather interesting stone which I picked up at the weekend -- I think it's called "Benares stone", if I heard the vendor correctly, and it seems to be a mixture of sandstone and agate which gives a rather pretty visual mixture of metallic (a sort of dark muddy gold) and translucent. I got both red and green beads in that stone, and when I brought them in on Monday, said coworker immediately called dibs on them. I hope she likes the end product. The real problem was trying to find a metal for the clasp and earrings that would match: silver would have been just plain wrong, gold-plated of the usual type was too harsh, bright copper entirely the wrong shade, and even dull brass wasn't really right. I ended up settling for darkened copper, which didn't exactly match, but at least didn't clash. Now I hope I got the length right.
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He was trying to find some help in the ancient military journals of General Tacticus, whose intelligent campaigning had been so successful that he'd lent his very name to the detailed prosecution of martial endeavour, and had actually found a section headed What To Do If One Army Occupies A Well-fortified And Superior Ground And The Other Does Not, but since the first sentence read "Endeavour to be the one inside" he'd rather lost heart.
-- Carpe Jugulum, Pratchett
Incidentally, the new (that is, Halloween and Christmas special) stuff is in at Lush. I must pay a visit there tomorrow. Probably in my lunch break, because then I get the additional bonus of showing off any purchases to coworkers after lunch, which is always fun.
Have also just finished a necklace and earrings for a coworker. The beads are of a rather interesting stone which I picked up at the weekend -- I think it's called "Benares stone", if I heard the vendor correctly, and it seems to be a mixture of sandstone and agate which gives a rather pretty visual mixture of metallic (a sort of dark muddy gold) and translucent. I got both red and green beads in that stone, and when I brought them in on Monday, said coworker immediately called dibs on them. I hope she likes the end product. The real problem was trying to find a metal for the clasp and earrings that would match: silver would have been just plain wrong, gold-plated of the usual type was too harsh, bright copper entirely the wrong shade, and even dull brass wasn't really right. I ended up settling for darkened copper, which didn't exactly match, but at least didn't clash. Now I hope I got the length right.
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He was trying to find some help in the ancient military journals of General Tacticus, whose intelligent campaigning had been so successful that he'd lent his very name to the detailed prosecution of martial endeavour, and had actually found a section headed What To Do If One Army Occupies A Well-fortified And Superior Ground And The Other Does Not, but since the first sentence read "Endeavour to be the one inside" he'd rather lost heart.
-- Carpe Jugulum, Pratchett
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Date: 2012-10-10 08:52 am (UTC)Of course, if you'd like a couple of those as earrings . . .
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