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Someone special recently had a birthday and I knew she liked Italian micro mosaic and milliefiori glass.
I had some pretty beads, and a mosaic that was missing some bits. I did a repair on it by finding tiny quartz stones that fit into the holes and then filling in the rest with a clear coat, hard setting glue. It’s not perfect, but it doesn’t look like it is missing teeth now.
It hangs from the gold chain by a clasp that can be used to switch it out with other charms. My friend mentioned losing a lot of single earrings lately and I told her that she could take the earwire off of them and use this clasp to wear them as pendants instead.
I gifted her with some extra earrings too.
I had heard from others that they are also losing earrings, due to taking masks off and on. I thought I was pretty lucky to have never, ever lost an earring. Of course 90% of mine are made by me, and are easily replaced, so it was not as big of a deal if I did lose one, since I could usually make another. Still, I thought it was kind of interesting to realize that I simply do not lose any at all.
So, of course, I lost one.
And not one I made. The one time in my entire life that I splurged and bought some pricier ones for myself, because, look at that beautiful stone! It’s layered quartz over mother of pearl.
I spent more than I really should’ve considering I am a jewelry maker, and here I go, losing one of those.
I thought back to where I’d been and realized that my mask had been twisted up in Costco. People told me that I should call and see if it had been turned in, but I did not, thinking it wouldn’t do any good.
So, I did what I could to salvage my loss, and adding the remaining one to an opal p, pearl, rose quartz, and moonstone necklace I’d made.
Then, during a lull at Good Juju while sitting with friends, I dropped my phone from my pocket and had to reach under a cabinet to fetch it. There, by my hand was the missing earring! Weeks later, and after multiple sweepings of the space.
So I guess my record is safe. But I won’t be bragging about not losing earrings, or not ever breaking a phone. Oops, I hope I didn’t jinx myself on that one!