I'm wandering around my store talking to bored people without a cause who won't let do what I'm best at. This happens every year at this time, and I hate it. Therefore I mostly hate October. I should be sitting at my bench, doing nothing but making pieces for the store that are inspired by the influx of ideas that the beauty of fall brings. Instead I'm fixing plastic things, silver things, a few sentimental things, and not really making any money doing it. I always want to quit what I'm doing because it seems that most of my clients disappear and I'm left with just faith. Faith that they'll return, but in my mind in the time alone  I question everything. My surroundings, is it because the windows are dirty, nope I cleaned them in the episode Washing windows. My carpet has been steamed. Walls washed. Books straightened. Hallway swept. Gold organized. Light bulbs, some changed, but I never got the starters for the small case lights and there are some spots out, maybe that's it.  I can see it now...

Judy Halvcatozininski walking by with her Nonfat-half-caf/defcaf-mocha-latte-light-whip-hold-the-sprinkles-add-hazelneut-shot was about to come in because she needed a really cool blue sapphire ring with blue diamond accents. She wanted it to be two tone, and really unique, but decided not to come in  my shop because it probably didn't have the level of quality that she was looking for all based off of  her pet peeve that burnt out light bulbs in a retail situation were the greatest tragedy of them all. After all her dad made the family fortune working in Las Vegas on the Strip changing bulbs, and her as her dad always used to say "No lights, then no action."    

"Judy!!!!!! please come buy my matches or the sapphire ring either one just come in and keep the wheels of the store turning!" said the little match book boy with the dirty black fingers and dark smudges on his face, but Judy kept walking. Oh well I'll see her worried husbands face on December 24th when I tell him I sold it during our annual sale at a sick discounted price because I needed to eat.

The days aren't really that bad. I actually like the calm before the storm. I would just like to be able to "batten down the hatches" by making some diamond bracelets, more gold earrings (like twenty ideally thirty more pairs), set all of the great stones like the trillion green sapphire, the heart cut blue, the emerald cut pair of yellow sapphires, the hot pink hearts, the killer blue zircons, the apatite, the tourmalines, the tsavorites, the spessertites, and everything else in the five large wallets of loose stones. Maybe if I stop writting and go to bed to wake up early, I might have a shot. I'm thinking October 13th will be mostly a voice-mail day.

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