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"Oh honey...you can make this!" GRRRR

Do people really think we can't hear?? How many people come to your booth, start observing your work, they even ask the medium you use, and then you hear "oh honey, you can make this" yikes!!!!I just heard a grandma telling her granddaughter "grab a business card so you can go to her website and copy it". Seriously????? I just stood in front of the 14 year old and told her "I want that card back, I don't appreciate people who come to my booth to try to steal my work". I'm also tired of being the photo police. I mean, I understand if you are interested and want to send the pic to your husband or wife or whoever and they even ask you before, but the ones shooting with their phones left and right...Come on...show some respect. At least common sense. I feel the same when they try to bargain. What are we? Gypsys? A flea market? We are professionals, working probably harder than anybody. Creating all day, working Extra hours, weekends, holidays, sometimes until 3am and on top of that, drive all over the place and try to set up. Ha! Setting up is a b#%*^%h! Who can do all that?! Damn! We are so talented. So, do you want to "copy" my work. Go ahead. Good luck!PS and please if you have your kids with you,teach them to observe, not to touch with sticky fingers, and if they touch, don't laugh. It's not funny.Just venting!
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Every show we have at least a half a dozen people ask us for 'buy sell' kinds of jewelry pieces.  This week my favorite question was:  My mother went to Israel 30 years ago and bought me this star  with the word chai (life on it).  She got the large one, I got the medium one and my cousin got the small one.,    I lost it and I always go to these art shows hoping I will find this exact piece of jewelry.  Do you have it?

Kick me before sarcasm rolls off my tongue.  I politely said that the person who designed those pieces 30 years ago would not be happy to know that I, or someone else, had copied that design.  So, no, we don't have that design but we have 15 other designs that you may like.

No, she said, I've looked 30 years for this design and this is the design I want.

Or, last week the lady said:  My x-boyfriend gave me a star with a horseshoe on it.  When I broke up 25 years ago, I gave him back the pendant.  I always loved that pendant.  Do you have it?

We don't have it - perhaps you might cookie horseshoe, star and pendant and find it that way.  No, she said - she would keep on looking.  When we got to the room that night, I googled horseshoe, star, pendant and up popped a piece.  i don't know if this is 'the one' but it was easy to find.

We're not gong to have 'plain stars' that can be purchased on the internet.  Pieces are designed by me.  I want people to 'step out of the box' and look beyond that plain star ... alas, those who say - cute, interesting, nice, very interesting, very nice, different ... just don't get it.  

On the other hand, a blog was written about a new piece - Tikva - Star of Hope..

http://sherylaronson.blogspot.com/2012/06/hope.html

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