[beggars-opera]

Witch 1: When shall we three meet again?

Witch 2: When the hurdy-gurdy's done

Witch 3: *absolutely shredding*

[nonasuch]

Heads up for DC area folks: we have a packed calendar coming up at the shop!

[nonasuch]

friend: I got a type tray to hang on my wall and I was wondering if you had any—

me: oh absolutely I gotchu. hang on a minute

friend: —ideas.

me: here u go

[byjove]

I love asking people how their parents met. You always get an interesting reply. My best friend’s parents met on the relatively new internet in 1999. My other friend’s parents met at Burger King when one was the manager and the other was a regular customer. My parents met at the beach because they were neighbors in their rental houses, mom was on a church trip and dad was getting blackout drunk every night with his friends next door.

Tell me how your parents met in the tags.

[nonasuch]

Guess who got

burgled!

So sometime between 2 and 4 in the morning today, someone broke into several businesses on our block. He shows up on camera in our neighbors next door and across the street, and on their exterior cameras a bunch too. We had our cash register emptied and a big mess behind the counter where he went through a bunch of drawers and tossed my work table.

Thankfully he didn’t touch my jewelry beyond making a mess, so we’re out about $300 plus the sunhat he shows up wearing on the neighbors’ cameras. Police have been and gone, fingerprints and photos taken, etc, and our landlord is going to add his security camera footage to what our neighbors got.

Honestly I’m so relieved he left my jewelry alone that I’m not nearly as mad as I should be about the cash and the mess. Although he did also knock over my antique boudoir doll and broke her leg, and I’m pretty upset about that. Justice for Mrs. Danvers!

[swagophile]

important reminder that most people you follow online are significantly lamer than you think they are including me. and if you feel insecure comparing yourself to someone online: DON'T. theyre probably also lame and weird. most people on the internet are

[most-sane-classicist]

reblog if you're also lame and weird.

[nonasuch]

Me, looking at a vintage haori in passing: oh that’s pretty

Me, looking closer: wait. are those french knots???

[shinelikethunder]

heatwave sufferers go plunge your feet in cold water you will feel SO much better i prommy. grab a bucket or a pot or a plastic container, fill it with a few inches from the cold tap, lay a towel down on the floor, and dunk your goddamn feet.

[cerceos-deactivated20160308]

Calvin and Hobbes - It’s July Already

[nonasuch]

Update on my big jewelry buy: I bought SO MUCH cool silver jewelry. There’s a KILLER marcasite dragon brooch, a ton of rings, some gorgeous Zuni inlay, and an incredibly rotund rabbit pendant that makes me laugh every time I look at it, among a whole lot of other things. Very excited to get it all polished up and out at the shop!

However. I do have a dilemma. I have about a dozen pair of really lovely sterling silver clip-on or screw-back earrings. I sell a ton of costume clips and screw-backs, but for some reason — possible because they’re more expensive, and people who don’t mind losing a $10 clip don’t want to risk losing a $30 clip — the silver ones just take forever to sell.

Some of them could be turned into pierced earrings, but it would not be a reversible alteration. This is not something I would bother to do for costume jewelry, but it might make more sense to turn the silver clips into earrings that would actually get bought and worn.

Should I turn the silver clip earrings into pierced earrings?

Yes

No

Voting ended onJun 30

[nonasuch]

I found this poster at an estate sale, and while I was looking at it the person running the sale came up to me and said “oh isn’t that nice? and it’s signed, too!”

and for about ten seconds I was like. signed… by the horse??? before my brain caught up to me and I realized she meant. like. by the artist

[nonasuch]

So my parents’ synagogue is having a rummage sale this weekend.

The first year they did it, I was volunteered to help them set up, and I found 3 sets of 14k gold cufflinks mixed in with the costume jewelry. So now every year I go in a few days ahead of the sale to check the jewelry for any missed gold or silver, and make sure they haven’t egregiously under- or over-priced anything vintage. And I also get to shop 😁

This year, they introduced me to the guy who buys their gold and silver. And now I have an appointment for Monday to pick through forty POUNDS of silver jewelry that would otherwise go to the refinery.

I am HYPED.

[nonasuch]

Would you know or know where to find 17-18th century jewish womens headwear examples? I wanna add it to my hobbit-y ren faire wear if i can

No, but now I also want to know this and I feel like I must know someone who can tell us. Anyone?

[oedipalrivalry]

can everyone start writing fic about the hyperniche ship only i'm interested in. please.

[nonasuch]

happy pride

[wizardissues]

having a lot of fun with the thing harriet keeps doing in have his carcase where whenever wimsey throws hearts and flowers at her she’s like “get ahold of yourself :/“ but then when he misses a single moment where she looks cute in a dress or he could have said something romantic or he could have asked her out she goes >:( for a second before internally going GET AHOLD OF YOURSELF

[wizardissues]

he doesn’t compliment her dancing and she spends like 5 minutes having a silent crashout until she finally snaps and is like I KNOW I SUCK AT DANCING. and he goes ?? and then he goes !! and THEN he goes “i would dance the sun and moon into the sea with you. i have waited a thousand years to see you dance in that frock” and she tells him he’s an idiot. a+ behavior harriet clearly zero feelings here

[wizardissues]

when he leaves the room without proposing to her she repeats “this is good i like this i’m a fan of this” multiple times to the empty room. oh harriet we’re really in it now

[nonasuch]

unfortunately I don’t believe that people are ontologically good or bad, which is real annoying when someone is pissing me off