When things go wrong

So being a small business owner means always getting it right, correct? NO, it doesn't! I’m just as human as I’ve always been, and as such just as fallible, BUT as a business owner, I have to correct my mistakes, and as a human, I’m willing to own them. So where is this coming from? After all, I was planning an entirely different post for this week; well… I made a slight error when I made some of my necklaces, and I thought that I would talk about that! 

Let’s start at the beginning. One week ago, I was headed to a local lake to get photos of my necklaces, and one of my pendants fell off a small issue, and easily corrected, I just slipped it back on. Fast forward a couple of days when I set back out to the same lake for another set of Instagrammable photos… and my pendant fell off again. I tracked back to the car, found my pendant, and set back towards the lake, trying to replace my pendant as I walked; being a bit of a klutz, I dropped the necklace to the ground, and one of the glass beads shattered, effectively ending my hopes of a photoshoot for the day. 

On the way home, I was forced to consider the fact that I had pendants fall off of my necklaces not once, but twice now and in my mind at least, this is a big enough issue that I should fix it before I sold any. So upon returning home, I decided to restring all 15 necklaces which had their pendants attached in this troublesome manner and fix them once and for all.

(After taking this photo, another one of the pendants simply fell off one of the necklaces, I swear before the first photoshoot this had NEVER happened before!)

So what was the issue? Simple, I had decided to use jump rings to attach my pendants so that they wouldn’t hang crooked, what I hadn't counted on, was the TINY little gap was JUST big enough that the hyper-thin beading string I use allowed it to slip through. 

How did I fix this? I tied the pendants on, the knot allows the pendant to hang straight, but this is a technique that I have only discovered recently; after I had strung all of these.

It took me about 9 hours, almost without breaks, but I managed to finish restringing them within a single day.

After they were restrung I needed to reglue them (I use a thread-sealing glue to make sure that the knots won’t come undone.) I asked my mom to help me, because the glue is VERY strong stuff, and it makes me lightheaded to work with for more than a few minutes. 

Two days after this annoying episode I was able to set back out and take the photos I had set out for in the first place, this time with the assurance that my necklaces were now in even better condition than they had been originally… And that the pendant wouldn’t simply fall off. :)

All in all, I think that it was worth it. 

Thanks for the read!