Can it go any more wrong?

Seriously, I feel like banging my head against the wall. Some one requested some rings from me, which I have been struggling to get to between work and house moving chaos and other mini crises that seem to be coming at me thick and fast right now. She was fine with it taking a while so all was OK really. Anyway I told her that I should have them ready by the end of last week, but didn't quite manage that, so have been finishing them off this week, wanting to have them ready for today. Added to the fact I am seriously out of practice and am a fumbling slowpoke, yesterday in my stupidity I managed to scratch the cabochon I was setting, but could cope with that as I had a spare. Now I just dropped it and it has fallen behing the floorboards!

Sometimes I wonder if persuing this is a good idea... :(|

Have you got some micromesh Lucinda? I've successfully polished scratches out of cabs with the finer grades. Might be worth a try at least!

Hmm, I do and I did wonder that, I had a quick go but might have started too fine, I'll try again. Thanks George - seems like magic stuff!

Does cooksons sell micromesh I couldn't seem to find it? Hope that sorts your problem, everything always goes wrong at the same time. I'm desperately waiting for the postman to arrive with my hallmarked jewellery which should have reached a gallery on Monday and I haven't even got it polished yet:(

I don't think Cooksons do sell it, I got mine from eBay. Once I have scoffed my Jaffa Cakes and glugged my coffee I shall give it a go.

Yep, everything at once it seems, hoping to get all disasters sorted by the end of the month to start afresh in January, lol!

:X hug better!
we all have days like that...for me when the resin doesn't set so I have to strip out all the work and start again :(
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Thanks Emma! :X

I know what you mean, seems to be about 3 months of it at the moment though, lol!

I tried the micromesh, but the scrat was so deep (go me!) I would be there for a month of Sundays trying to get it out. I have otdered more cabs though and my supplier said she could get them dispatched today :)

I thought it was just me having an off day! Must be something in the weather!
Lorraine

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Hugs all round

Oh Lucy you poor love, hope things calm dwn for you real soon. [][]

Thanks everyone, and Su, yeah it should - just not enough hours in the day at the moment and I've got pretty run down, which makes it harder to get stuff done!

The scratch in that stone was so deep I would have been there forever trying to get it out, and I think I would have deformed the shape. As it happens though, OH came home and spotted the original stone on the floor, it didn't get under the floorboards after all! I spent nearly an hour rummaging aound on the floor with a torch trying to fing it, ah well!

Early night for me tonight, and hopefully I shall be more capable in the morning :)

Morning Lucinda
Hope today is a brand sparkly new one and everything goes well!
Lorraine

Aww thank you Lorraine :X

Well I got a good night's sleep, which feels good, but I have some kind of bug thing which has resulted in a very sore throat and painflu head and neck. If I could chop my head off I would feel great!

Banking on the regenerative properties of a Cheese and Onion Toastie and some Anadin, and the hopefully I can do something useful with the day!

Hope the powers of cheesy toast kick in for you Lucinda - I had something similar for a couple of days earlier this week....cheese on toast and fish-fingers sandwiches did it for me. Well, along with the paraceutamol and mega-dose of VitC.

Fingers crossed for a more stress-free day for you than yesterday :X

Thank you Kym! []

Something's doing the trick, my aches and pains have susided somewhat!

God, I love Fishfinger sandwiches! Haven't had one in ages either, that could be my dinner sorted! :D

Haha fish finger sandwiches are wonderful - that's exactly what I'm having with my daughter this evening - hubby's away, so I don't have to do grown up cooking :)

Good old OH - sometimes there is a point to them. :)
Hope you're having a better day.

Yummy, I'm definitely going to have a cheese and onion toastie - now where's the Breville?

I hate fish fingers.

MMMmmmmmmm!! Cookies Forum....The home of fine dining!!:-D

I had that sore throat and bad head last week - it felt like a hangover, but I hadn't drunk anything - very disappointing really!

Ah on the foodie front, I do love a chip buttie! Ah now my favourite way of cooking a cheese toastie is to add a bit of worcestershire sauce - absolutely delicious! Talking of foodie things, I made a lovely stock the other day from a chicken we'd eaten for dinner, added some veg stock, few herbs, a whole head of celery, some home grown carrots and a lovely leek. My OH knew I was a bit busy, so said he'd do the spuds for me. Later there was a lovely smell of soup wafting up the stairs.... much later I noticed a strange smell. You've guessed it - burnt soup! Very very very burnt! We could smell that soup for several days.... bless him. So its not only me that puts something on the cooker and comes upstairs and starts reading forums and forgets about everything else! :-D :D

Fine dining all the way ;) So many things are great between two slices of bread! That soup sounded lovely Jules, what a shame! I've opted for a slightly more nutritious dinner than more sandwiches though, which is in the slow cooker atm and smells gorgeous. We got some lamb shanks from the farmers market on saturday and I have lobbed them in with some onions, carrots and mushrooms, red wine and stock and a few other bits and bobs that were in the kitchen and looked like they might go. Think I shall do some mash with it later on, yum!

oooh sounds delicious Lucinda - if I set out now I may get there just as it's coming out of the slow cooker :xmaslaugh:

Hehe yeah, I shall have to tell the OH he'll have to have a fish finger sandwich! ;)

My OH loves fishfinger sandwiches. I think it might be a baby boomer thing cos I'm quite partial too. I also love fish fingers mashed up with fried egg, which was number two son's favourite lunch as a baby.

I'd never heard of having them in a sandwich till I met my ex husband when I was at Uni, and I thought it was really wrong before I tried it, in fact, I thought he was crazy!

(he was, as it turns out, but at least I got something out of the 10 years we spent together HAHAHAHAHAHA)

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My OH loves fishfinger sandwiches. I think it might be a baby boomer thing cos I'm quite partial too. I also love fish fingers mashed up with fried egg, which was number two son's favourite lunch as a baby.

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Yes, we love having fish fingers, poached egg, and baked beans - yummy! Funny all this talk of fish, as we've got fishcakes tonight, with mashed spuds and some carrots and a few brussel sprouts I've just picked! ummm, its my turn though, so I'll have to sign off, otherwise it will be frazzled.

Well I've just got back from another craft fair and couldn't be bothered to cook so had beans with cheese and poached egg. Real comfort stuff. I'm having an orange as well to make up for it though.

all this food talk is making me hungry xx Did you get those rings finished Lucinda ???
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If you want the cab re-polishing let me now and I will send you my address.
No charge, other than the each way postage.
Obviously if postage outweighs stone cost you probably won't need to do it.
Cjeers
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Originally Posted by Green Monster

If you want the cab re-polishing let me now and I will send you my address.
No charge, other than the each way postage.
Obviously if postage outweighs stone cost you probably won't need to do it.
Cjeers
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Thanks - but I have replacements not and as you said, I don't think it's worth it tbh!

Rings still not finished, I spent the remainder of last week feeling pretty ill, but hopefully I will get finished today, and then hope the customer still wants them!