Every friend I hoped not to hear shit about, I did not hear shit about. That’s enough for now.
i didn’t have any hopes or expectations. I was just stunned. I have mixed feelings about the whole thing but I’m not involved so I can think about it from a distance and I’m grateful for that.
I must have made over 40 necklaces today. I think I’m good on the resin necklace front for at least the next few months. I have enough to send up to the show in Jamaica too. I’m tired and I have to get ready to go to dinner. At least I’m not looking to murderize anybody anymore.
Come join us tomorrow to support local and small businesses ❤️ .
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I Also Re-Posted On My Other Social Media Pages As Follows:
American Black Cross Call-To-Action
[https://youtu.be/Rp2YUtn-dPM] 09/26/17 Bravo! These are heroes saving lives. Respect – This is what REAL humanity looks like! https://americanblackcross.org/
People do this constantly in Vancouver. And THEN, when the light turns and cross traffic is being blocked, the people stuck waiting for traffic to move sit there and blast their horns, like THAT’S goddamn helpful.
oh I thought it was just us… maybe traffic stupidity is universal
Also, if you wait politely for you to let me in to my lane, I will stop my car 100% of the time.
But when you do that shit where you shove yourself halfway out into the street to bully your way through, I will drive all the way in the other lane if I have to to block you from getting through.
I don’t know what it is with Trinidadian drivers and blocking streets when they’re in traffic. I mean it’s the law, come on don’t be an asshole.
I get sometimes you can misjudge when you think traffic is moving and suddenly you find yourself stopped blocking the entrance to a street, but when it’s crawling and you know you’re not going anywhere, for fuck’s sake leave the space. It’s not gonna kill you to let someone through.
Sterling silver cabochon ring in #turquoise. I added some extra stacking rings for good measure. Available on my website www.sundarajewelry.com ❤️.
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You take no shit and suffer no fools. I admire that (and she deserved it)
nah i do take shit but you gotta be someone i care about. she really offended me with what she did man. so i fucking let her have it without having to say anything
The prosecutor who subpoenaed and cross-examined Hitler in 1931 for a murder trial against four brownshirts was a Jewish lawyer named Hans Litten. The three-hour testimony left Hitler so unnerved and humiliated that he forbade anyone speak Litten’s name in his presence, and he was killed in a concentration camp. Today, the German bar association is called the Hans Litten Association, and every year they give out the Hans Litten Award for excellence in the legal profession. That’s how you commemorate history.
There’s this quote that says, “You’re not intimidating. He’s intimidated.”
And I really love it because it puts the focus on the right person.
Except that sometimes I am intimidating as fuck. And I know it.
That girl at the market who borrowed my earrings and returned them in a mess?
She came over to my table later trying to strike up a conversation with me and I looked at her deadpan as she stumbled through her words. I let her finish and then paused for a while. And then said, “I don’t understand what you mean.”
She again tried to ask me (apparently) how things were going in my life in general. I just stared at her until she finished and said that I was fine and began rearranging my table, at which point she sort of slinked off.
And I felt sorry for her.
Because I would not want to be on the receiving end of me at that point.
Chris is on the farm tonight, they’re… cosechando… como se dice en inglés? Reaping… a crop of cauliflower.
Some words never come to me in English
I wanted to come at least one night to help but I have been working non-stop.
I have a show to prepare for in Jamaica, two markets this weekend, a pop-up shop next weekend, the biggest market of the year fast approaching in early November, a commission of at least fifteen pieces of resin jewelry for a new client, and all the Christmas markets that will be taking place.
I am frantically stocking up. I feel like I haven’t had time to breathe. But I’ll be super prepared when the time comes.
We have some brand new resin terrarium pendants! We’ll be at the Green Market on Santa Cruz and UpMarket at the Woodbrook Youth Facility on Sunday. Come see these beautiful pieces and many more ❤️. .
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I just heard a single wild parrot fly off into the distance squawking his head off.
Things is parrots are long asleep at this hour and they never fly alone, always at the very least in pairs. That poor parrot sounded so distressed man.
Something woke his ass up tonight and it wasn’t good.
“Having a daughter shouldn’t be a requirement for internalizing the problems of working within a sexist industry. Your wives gave birth to a baby girl, not a moral compass…
Peppering statements about how shocked and appalled you are with a mention of your daughter just makes you look clueless. Because here’s the thing: Only a sociopath needs a daughter — or a sister, a girlfriend, a wife, or even just a lady standing in front of him at Starbucks — to make him queasy enough at the thought of a sexual predator in his industry to do something about it.
You don’t need a daughter to feel guilty about working with a man who preys on young women, or about not acting to stop him. You just need a conscience.”
-Hunter Harris, at Vulture, on celebrities who keep citing their daughters when feigning ignorance on Harvey Weinstein’s behavior
I didn’t watch the match (didn’t even realise it was on until I started scrolling through my facebook feed). It’s hard to describe what this means to our country. The entire stadium was in tears when we lost that qualifier all those years ago. Tonight was our David and Goliath moment. It was a vindication of the highest order. We beat the mighty US of A. That is no small feat. It means a lot to us (to get to kick y’all out of a world cup lol).
28 years ago, the US kicked Trinidad and Tobago out of World Cup 1990 in Italy with one goal by Paul Caliguri, in a game that T&T just needed to draw.
Ask any Trinidadian of a certain age about “November 19th”, and they’ll cringe at the memory. The defeat *literally* damaged the psyche of the country for years.
Tonight, tiny little 1.3 million strong T&T kicked the mighty US out of World Cup 2018 in Russia with one goal, in a game in which the US just had to draw.
Karma is a patient bitch when she ready, in truth.
These pumps, crafted by Mexican designer Lucita Abarca, caused quite a stir at a recent Sixth Borough fashion show. These crystalline high-heels were grown by Wyrm’s Pass artisans, deep below the Rocky Mountains, using a mixture of firebird ash, waters from the springs at Paradiso, and a variety of secret ingredients, rumored to include Australian fire opals and powdered moonstone. The result of using the firebird ash become immediately recognizable when the heel of the shoe is dragged backward across any dry surface, as it creates an impressive streak of magical fire which can be accurately aimed with a little effot. Ms. Abarca said she wanted a shoe that made a statement, and that statement was “Any bastardo brujo catcalling me on La Plaza de Sangre better be ready to dose his huevos, you know?”
Super busy day on the studio today! Putting the final glaze on some new terrarium pendants. So shiny! .
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I didn’t realise that Harvey Weinstein was married of Georgina Chapman (of Marchesa). But no wonder she always looks so unhappy when she appears on Project Runway.
Lawyers are very expensive, especially if I assume she’s in a different country. I had to go up against someone recasting my work in Canada and to do it properly it would have cost a fortune. Likely this person is just bluffing you, and I haven’t seen anything from you that looks like a copy. You seem to be exploring resin naturally.
I hope your case was resolved in your favour. Your work is so unique that I can’t believe someone would attempt to copy it.
Re the other seller, she does live in another country. My initial reaction to her email was that I was mortified and went to immediately take down the piece. Being accused of copying someone else’s work is something I take very seriously. I’ve been a working artist for most of my adult life. I have always been very careful about that.
When I thought about it though, knowing that I didn’t copy it, I realised that she would have to go through a lot of trouble to try to get me to remove it and that it was likely a lawyer would tell her she didn’t have a leg to stand on. It wasn’t the only piece of that kind in my shop either, so why she zeroed in on that one is beyond me. I responded to her claim by telling her simply and truthfully that I didn’t copy her work and that similarities will occur when people use similar materials. I have not heard back from her since.
I can’t speak for her but I’ve threatened to call my attorney toformer boss. He withheld my final paycheck for months basically out of spite so after I called three times about my check I said this better be deposited by Friday or the next call will be from my attorney. I did not have an attorney but absolutely would have gotten one. He paid me so I didn’t have to.
I would have done the same. Threaten and then find a lawyer.
Also, I wonder when people threaten to contact their lawyer if they actually have a lawyer on hand ready and waiting to attend to their litigious needs?
Or do they have to scramble to find one now to fulfill their threat?
I’ve owned two businesses and didn’t have a lawyer.
Oh, fuck off. This lady is so full of shit. Unless she is a gigantic company like Pyrrha or something else, she doesn’t have a chance. I fucking hate it when designers do this to other designers. SOMEONE else in the world will have the same goddamn idea as you. For fuck’s sake. ����♀️
I decided to do some digging.
“A jeweler can copyright his design but it has to be very creative and artistic and it also protects logos and all the symbols that would have the customer identify the product with the company name.”
Her piece certainly does not fall under that criteria.
And I just think it shows an astonishing level of insecurity.
I have looked at her work. There is nothing that distinguishes her from any other person who sells resin nature jewelry. Her pieces are the same as everyone else’s. If she persists I will find photos of every single one of her pieces that resemble other people’s work and ask her if she copied them.
Someone accused me today of copying one of their resin pieces.
When they sent me the photo of their work I was stunned because a) I’d never seen it before and b) the similarities were slim at best.
With resin jewelry there are tons of the same kinds of pieces. If you’re making nature themed jewelry, how many different ways do you think you can make a ring? Blue flower petals, pink, yellow, red… eventually the only thing that differentiates you is… that you made it. I’ve seen stuff online that I actually thought was mine until I realised it was someone else’s. And that they made theirs first. Doesn’t mean I copied them. We just put the same shit together.
The piece in question was a pendant. Hers was far superior to mine in quality and aesthetic appeal. But she’s threatening to sue me for copyright infringement. Because we made what looked like an underwater scene in resin using starfish? Jesus christ woman have some confidence in your work.
We are not meant to stay wounded. We are supposed to move through our tragedies and challenges and to help each other move through the many painful episodes of our lives. By remaining stuck in the power of our wounds, we block our own transformation. We overlook the greater gifts inherent in our wounds — the strength to overcome them and the lessons that we are meant to receive through them. Wounds are the means through which we enter the hearts of other people. They are meant to teach us to become compassionate and wise.
For some reason I’ve been seeing a lot of posts lately about hidden depression. Or something they called it.
Basically it’s how people can be very high functioning while suffering from deep depression and appear perfectly normal and happy yet you find them dead the next day.
That would be me (not dead high functioning). I haven’t had that kind of crippling can’t get out of bed haven’t eaten in days experience in years. I’ve learnt out of necessity how to cope and how to function with the kind of depression that used to leave me flattened.
But it’s just as deadly and even more scary because no one can tell that you’re struggling.
I don’t think people know much effort and energy it takes to appear normal when you’re in the depths of it. But it does. At least I’m glad to see I’m not the only one.
Anybody else got like,, rlly random connections to famous ppl?? Like my older brothers were friends w Jennifer Lawrence when they were like 12 and I just found out I’m friends w the cousin of the girl who voiced honey lemon in big hero six like, idk what I’m supposed to do with either of these tid bits I feel like I was supposed to live my life in ignorance of them
my granda was in the IRA
my dad catered a party for Taylor Swift’s parents and heard her sing when she was like 10 I think
My cousin is dating the older brother of the lead actress in the new Pacific rim movie.
My coworker’s brother is college roommates with Matt Damon’s nephew
My sister’s ex-boyfriend’s aunt had a scene with Jim Carrey in an Ace Ventura movie
My sister got directions from Nicholas Cage when she got lost on her way to work.
My dad met the oldest of George Bush Sr. kids at a frat house once.
I got a friend whose dad was part of the first successful interracial hip hop group
My mom went on a double date with Brad Pitt.
I met the sister of two-time Olympic gold medalist Bart Conner in the early 80s.
My friend/neighbor’s sister is a credited writer and storyboard artist for OK KO and Teen Titans Go.
My coworkers dad is best friends with Will Ferrel.
My half sister use to be a well known porn star. Does that count
Idk if any of you watched iCarly, but my uncle’s cousin was the crazy teacher on the show…
My wife’s mother and aunt went to school with Mark Wahlberg.
A friend of mine grew up with the Jonas Brothers and even has pictures of her with them.
I met Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s mom once
My dad’s former co-worker’s son went to school with Scotty McCreery and a family that used to be friends with mine moved right next to one of the Hardy Boyz
I had a friend who had a friend that knew 5sos.
My mom was Lisa Kudrow’s PA for a brief filmshoot back in…2000?
My sister’s best friend growing up was Marybeth Chapman, who married singer Steven Curtis Chapman (no relation) (so now she’s MaryBeth Chapman Chapman)
My half sister’s husband used to sometimes play the drums for Animal on the Muppet Show
Maybe in America they need to start calling birth control by some sort of clinical name and then maybe people will start understanding that it also serves as medicine to treat a variety of conditions which are unrelated to preventing pregnancy.
Every time I make something that doesn’t immediately take off I think, ok well cool I won’t make any more of those.
And then I will go to a market and the thing will become The Most Popular Piece of Jewelry on Earth™ and then I’ll be like huh ok I guess I’ll have to make more of these then.
And honestly it’s so fucking confusing sometimes towing that line between making what I like and making what I think people will like. Because they’re not always the same thing.
I packed up early at the market today. The rain came pouring down and staying didn’t make any sense. I got thoroughly soaked but it felt really refreshing. Sales were good and I’m tired and ready for a nap. Yay.
About a month ago, one of the girls who works at the market I attend on Saturdays asked me if she could rent a pair of earrings for an upcoming wedding.
She told me several times that she never wears any jewelry and just needed them for this one occasion.
I was uncomfortable with the idea but I felt pressured to say yes. We agreed on 10% of their value and that she would pay full price if she damaged them. She said she’d return them the next weekend.
I decided to sit out the month of September so she ended up keeping them for four weeks, which I was ok with. Until I saw a photo of her on Facebook (we’re not fb friends) posted on an environmental group. She was hanging out of a pick up truck somewhere in Manzanilla (on the east coast) wearing my earrings.
When I saw her this morning she was also wearing them even though she knew I was coming today. When she came to return them to me they were dull and tarnished. She asked if she could clean them with hydrogen peroxide and I said they needed polishing. I was so angry I didn’t even look at her. She thanked me for them and assured me she had told everyone who asked where they came from. I said nothing and she left.
They were not expensive earrings. Brass with long silver hooks. And I was able to bring them back to their original condition within minutes with some polish. But had she worn them for the one event as we had agreed, they never would have gotten to that condition. It was clear from the level of tarnish that she’d been wearing them for the entire month. And to the beach? With all that salt? Wtf.
I didn’t bother to confront her, the damage was already done. But I could not imagine borrowing (or renting) something from someone and returning it in that condition. I felt taken for a fool and taken advantage of. Her behaviour displayed a lack of integrity.
I won’t enter into another arrangement like this again. I’ll take it as a teachable moment and move on. But I won’t look at her the same way from now on.
People grow when they are loved well. If you want to help others heal, love them without an agenda.
De molding some rings I made last night. They’re not quite ready yet… but I can trim them down. #goldfoil #copperfoil #silverfoil .
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Do you ever get the feeling that there’s something actually wrong with you?
Like you’re wired differently than everyone and that makes you unlovable.
soulsistrin 