[Jewelry making - Article 00257] - Re: [Orchid] Shop trolls

[Candyce Park]

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    Shop trolls, gremlins, pixies,or brownies all relish stealing our
    time. I've found the best way to deal with them is look a while then
    give up. Truly give up and they will get bored and return your item.
    Probably in the least expected place. I've found the more time I
    spend looking for something, the longer they hold the object. If it's
    easily replaced I do that after a short search, 10 minutes max.
    Harder to replace, a 1 carat stone, I'll look a little longer. But
    will try to take my mind off it, so it will show up. 

    Here's an example from my past. I was gluing up pearls on post
    earrings. Matched pink pearls, cost ten dollars for the pair. One
    dissapeared. Of course my employer had to find it, so we searched 2
    whole days!!! Moved everything, vacumed with panty hose over the
    nozzle, if it involves search and rescue we did it. Finally gave up
    and moved on. Those pixies thought we put so much energy into our
    search they decide to hold on to that prescious pearl (must have been
    worth a lot, look how much time they spent looking for it!) We did
    eventually find said pearl. 2 years and 3 studios later. Stuck in the
    handle of the bench brush we used to look for the pest. 

    So my theory: The more valuable something appears to be to these
    buggers, ie; time spent searching, the longer they will hold onto it. 

    I liked the idea of the rubber mat under the bench... might cover
    the black hole they have set up down there. 

Candy


 
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