Part 4 of my current series, All Choked Up, is not happening this week: I’ve hit a bit of a snag, you see. I have completely lost all the lovely red beads I bought back in Part 2. My house is generally upside-down anyway, so I’ve pretty much been left with no choice but to turn it right-side up in looking for them.
I don’t know how they could’ve gone missing: they are (mostly) bright, red, beads, in a padded white envelope.
Because I don’t want to miss a week and just not post until I have something to update, I was debating with myself as to whether I should talk about a message I received from someone who wanted to take my necklace away from me. I’ll give you 3 seconds to see if you can guess which side of this internal argument won.
You might remember that, at the end of Part 3 I was saying that I like the choker how it is, and maybe that jinxed it for me? Maybe it’s supposed to be unfinished? Because apparently, it’s not just me who likes it in its current, unembellished state:
I didn’t respond to their last message, even after posting this. But I was curious, so I did go to their profile, and saw that they do indeed have more than 2,500 followers. And 10 posts, all seemingly unrelated. Posts that have no comments and about 30 likes, tops. Suspish, right?
I had some questions: Who are they? How did they find me? Do they also read my blog? Why did they want an unfinished piece?
Ultimately, it’s pretty whatever. I left their message unresponded-to, and blocked them. They didn’t follow me anyway, which I am glad about. But yeah, I’m not entirely sure why they wanted to try their luck with me. Maybe they just saw my follower count was lower than theirs and thought they could use that to their advantage?
I think it threw me off so much because this hasn’t really happened to me before. If I get a DM, it’s about 10% someone asking me to be a “brand ambassador” for them, and most of the rest will be about which of the jewellery pieces in my shop are made with semi-precious stones. Hint: if it’s in my shop and involves solid sterling silver, it’s semi-precious. Anyway, I get to keep my necklace, so that’s all I really care about.
So yeah, that’s as eventful as my week has been: the loss of tens of pounds (sterling, not weight) of red beads, and an annoying string of messages on Instagram from an entitled someone or other. Hopefully I’ll be back on track by this time next week; Hallowe’en is just over a week away, and it’s half term now, so it definitely going to get very busy here very quickly!
That’s all for now. Thanks so much for popping in and having a read. Have a lovely rest of your day!
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