Lola at the Coffee House, Cafe 101

and the last.....chalcedony and ocean jasper

As Lola relaxes on the sofa near the fireplace and drinks her coffee she says, "Now that's enough about me.....what are y'all up to these days?"

oh dear........the first photos were gone and now they're back.......I've done my work twice. Bother!

Lola,

My compliments. Your jewlery is exquisite.

seaglass wrote-



And some with Lola's gees and gaws
And some with an ironing board.

Spendi......how nice to see you....I love your company........you're such a great guy, smart, funny, a malcontent poet, really.

What? You don't like my work?

What have you been up to lately?

Thanks seaglass. I'm glad you like it.

Here are three of Bernie's designs. He prefers dark colors which is good because he can use the dark ones on a strand and I can have all the others.

It's black tourmaline and ocean jasper.

Vancouver?



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I'll miss you.

We'll be back. But first we have to make some money. Then we'll have an apartment here and one in Vancouver as well.

another of Bernie's

Lola wrote-



I have to look at it objectively Lola.As a scientist.
The evidence suggests vast expense.And a chap's expense at that.And me being a chap,and a Veblen fanatic to boot,what do you think I will think.I can't be expected to hold any views on the aesthetic charm of the items surely.I confine my aesthetic appreciation to the quality of a lady's mind.One can dress any old Shiela up in jewels and fine clothes as you must have noticed.Your lady fellow threaders have already reassured you on that score anyway as well they might.

Have you never read Veblen's The Economic Theory of Women's Dress? I certainly recommend that short essay to anyone who is engaged in your new line of work.It hones in on the Achillees Heel of American men and that must help you prosper.You are attempting to chisel cash out of them after all.The Millstone Collection eh?The rhyming dictionary might be useful for subdivisions.

Never give a sucker an even break Mr Fields said and new found business ventures should have that up on the back of the Managing Directoress's inner sanctum door in bold.

I'm okay.How's Bernie?

It hones in on the Achillees Heel of American men and that must help you prosper.

If I'm trying to prosper at the heels of American Men....then I'm sh!t up the creek.

I know that jewelry is outside the limits of your perpheral vision....so a thoughtful opinion about the merits of my work is not required. I love you anyway, even if you're sometimes esthetically challenged, visually that is. And if I can make money off men who want to impress their girl by buying her a bit of jewelry, more power to me.

Bernie's doing fine. He's driving himself crazy on the politics threads. But other than that, I don't mind having him around.

Why don't you put on a good Bob Dylan song and we'll drink our favorite beverage and maybe have a little smoke over here at the table by the fire?

OUTRAGEOUS. very neat stuff Lola, I really like the designs , the stones fit together and are great together. Im partial to the feldspars like moonstone (albite) Im not familiar with hessonite garnet Im sure its a jewelers name or a locale.
How and the hell do you keep the black tormalines from busting all apart when they are tumbled? or are they made as cabachons from slices?

Great work. My wife makes boiled wool jackets and often uses moonstone for buttons > Its been hard for her to get suppliers for a specific size , so I know where an outcrop of albite is in Delaware and Ill pick up a few pounds and she has a cab maker in La ncaster cut them and drill them out so they are purposely irregular yet they have that very subtle iridescence (play of colors)

Da aayumn, we got some people with skills.

When you flatter the female,deserving though she may be of the grossest forms of worship literature can devise,you just dig a bottomless pit for yourself.

Lola wrote-



No,no no,Lola.That's not the idea at all.They are not seeking to impress the lady.It is witnesses they are seeking to impress.The lady is just the display cabinet.The clothes horse.If they wanted to impress the lady they would do the housework and stay in the background.The "lady" has been conditioned to think she's impressed.

Read Veblen's essay for the full picture.He was a true grit American farmer from Wisconsin and the saver of my life.

spendi

Wow spendi,Many of us got over our early bad relationships and moved on with life.You appear to be stuck in a time warp like about 1865. Seems you bear ill toward women. Too bad, you should quit worshipping the cheesehead and maybe take a look at some gut wrenching artwork by Kate kollwitz. Or do you prefer the really schmaltzy work of the Pre Raphealites?

Ill back out Lola, spendi can be a bit creepy with me for some reason, so I wont try to annoy him further.
Very good work really. I just noticed that Blatham also creates these.Do you folks participate in regional craft shows? Have any in New England? I have a friend who does jewelry from some of my annealed Titanium . He cuts the metal, which has a nice iridescence, into shapes and puts either a stone and feather combination, or a stone and bead . Some of them would make great bass lures too.

Whenever I paint en plein air , I usually get called something from a passing car that is meant to question my masculinity and I just smile sweetley and wave a pinky or two. After all, Im the one having fun doing what I like, And I never get past the point of "I wonder what the light's gonna be like at some point in the countryside" to question why the boys in the car dont stop and discuss their H. habilis perceptions of artists, either male or female
Just dont understand the non creative mind.

fm wrote-



Still leaping to conclusions I see.You ought to know that leaping to conclusions is a technique which allows a person to provide his own feeders for his own"wit".It's a form of control freakery.An assumption is jumped on,usually incorrect as in this case,and an expression of contempt is then derived from it which is,by simple logic,also incorrect.It's a form of aggression.

Bearing ill will towards women is as ridiculous as bearing ill will towards the weather.They are what they are and understanding them is in no way bearing ill will towards them.Of course,as Germaine Greer often says,they can be browbeaten into conforming to male stereotypes but then they become household pets and all the vibrant feminine life goes out of them which the best of them eventually reject.Patronising flattery,always phoney,is a cheapskate method of trying to keep their spirits up.

What on earth has led you to think I might hold any brief for the pre-Raphealites.Ghastly figments of male fantasy the whole genre.You might try reading The Romantic Agony by Mario Praz and some of the stuff which followed that.

Are you calling Veblen a "cheesehead" to provide a justification for not having read his seminal works or what?Nobody who has read him has ever used such a derogatory term in relation to him although one lady I loaned The Theory of the Leisure Class to ripped the book into shreds.
Surely his scientific findings and stunning use of language have not been eschewed by you because they make you uncomfortable.I would find that hard to square with your positions on the ID thread.

What I was doing was giving Lola a few hints about the reality of the market place into which she is thrusting.As far as I'm concerned flattering her is tantamount to leading her up the garden path.The market-place is no garden path.She is investing money and time in this enterprise and I would prefer it to be a success for her before I prefer me being popular.

If I deserted the women in my life to go thousands of miles to get nosebleeds and headaches I wouldn't expect them to be there when I got back.

spendi, that youve asked, I find that the cheesehead to have been master of the bloody obvious.