It's only 7 pm here and I've opened the wine. Damaged my friend's

[neweurope]

christmas present that I've been working on for three whole days. Pity me.

:cry:

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[neweurope]

1. I see. Nobody pities me.

:cry: :cry:

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[ScreamingMeemie]

2. I pity you....

...now, have another glass. :hug: Was the wine to be the gift? Or was it something else? :hug:

[neweurope]

3. No! It's this mirror! The very large frame of it is covered all over

with a whole pound of Carneols (?? an orange Agate), the sides I've covered with a mirror mosaic. She's been wanting to have this for a year. And it was much more complicated than I thought; I've been doing nothing else for three days, the room is a mess, my hands are shaking, my eyes are blurred, I almost had a bad accident with some tool - and then I'm DONE!!!! and somehow break five of the tiny mirrors on the side! All shattered! One bottle of wine is not enough after this but it's all I have :cry:

Thanks for pitying me. :loveya:

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[supernova]

4. I'm so sorry neweurope!

:hug: Sounds like you put a lot of work into your friend's present this year.

[neweurope]

5. Thank you for the sympathy, supernova! Yes, I have,

actually I always do. She has an astonishing talent for making super nice gifts which are never expensive; I don't have that talent. But I can make things - usually, if I don't break them in the last minute - and she likes that. So when she mentioned she was thinking of covering a mirror with those stones to go with her couch (an absurd idea because when it comes to craftwork she automatically becomes cross-eyed and sprouts more left hands than the goddess Kali) I jumped on it... And now it's damaged...
:cry:

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[Call Me Wesley]

6. I'm sorry to hear,

but can't you fix it? Or, even better, call the broken mirrors a 'feature' or 'artistic freedom!' :hug:

[neweurope]

7. Thank you, Call me Weasley, I'll have to act like the Indians who

made a deliberate mistake in their rugs so the Goddess wouldn't be jealous :)

It could maybe be fixed but I don't have the time anymore, and I don't have the nerve, frankly. It'll have to be fixed in April and not one day sooner (we're about to move and I have to renovate two apartments and I'm handicapped). So I have to give a damaged gift :cry:

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[Call Me Wesley]

8. No worries,

just eplain to your friend. Even a 'damaged' gift is still agift, and I do believe that's the only thing that counts. :hi:

[neweurope]

9. You do make me feel better.

:loveya:

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