Sunday morning I came into my office to find the floor littered with shards of pink glass. I think I might have actually screamed out loud when I realized that those shards could only have come from this:
My beloved pink wreath was hanging on the closet door in my office to keep it up and away from destructive little hands. I keep a 3M Command hook on my closet door because it's a good place to photograph items for eBay and Etsy, so I hung the wreath there for photos as well. Sometime during Saturday night, the adhesive on the hook failed and the wreath crashed to the floor below.
Thankfully, the floor is carpet so the damage wasn't as extensive as it could have been.
As it is, the ornaments marked with Xs are now in the belly of my Shop Vac. I think I'll be able to carefully replace the three large ornaments around the bottom, but the sweet little bird is history and I'm not sure what I can do to fix it. I used up all of my pink ornaments on
the other two pink wreaths, so I can't do anything about it until I find more anyway, which means it will probably be months.
The truly sick irony is that earlier on Saturday afternoon, I moved the other two pink wreaths downstairs and packed them carefully into wreath boxes to store them safely until next Christmas. If only I had moved this pink one instead, it would still be intact and beautiful. :(
To add insult to injury, yesterday I caught the dog in the act of eating the gumdrops off of the
gumdrop wreath I made in 2009.
I had put it in the basement because I'm still in the process of putting away my Christmas decor
(I know, don't judge) and it was awaiting space in a box. I forgot it was on the floor and left the basement door open in between doing loads of laundry, and the dog wandered down there and found it. He'd denuded half of it by the time I found him, and had vigorously licked the other half. I'm sure I could have made some attempt at repair but at that point I was so disgusted and annoyed that I just pitched the whole entire thing.
It's a bad week to be a wreath in my house, apparently.
Sniff. Maybe it's a sign to hit the thrifts?
ReplyDeleteI think maybe you have a case for a lawsuit against 3M!
ReplyDeleteOh I hate when things like that happen, my honey was fixing a lamp I found at a yard and opps the thing broke oh well... just have to move on. Hugs, Diane (misery does love company right?)
ReplyDeleteI have been admiring those pink wreaths and it is just awful! (Especially about the little pink bird!!!) There are more Shiny Brites in the world though!
ReplyDeleteI know I would have cried when when I saw that - I know you will find more ornaments to replace those broken and not months from now either! I'm sending you positive ornament finding thoughts!!
ReplyDeletei cannot use thse command strips at the new house at all. they always fall. they worked brilliantly at the other house though. i now have a lot more cracks in the hall of frames b/c of it. :-(
ReplyDeletesorry u had a disaster too!
(one handed typing, sorry.)
So sorry...
ReplyDeleteOOOhhhhh! Actually your pink wreath looks like and easy repair - I have repaired countless ones that customers have dropped, stored improperly etc, etc....I have heard it all. It could have been much worse. Good luck. (and I agree about pitching the gumdrop one - that dog!)
ReplyDelete:( So sad on so many levels. I have to tell you though, I got a good chuckle out of the word "denuded". It was perfect. :)
ReplyDeleteAck! What is with the command hooks this week? Both of the ones one the wall behind the door in my craft room lost their sticky dumping my mini ironing board and bags of crap everywhere! They must be in revolt.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to go through my stuff and find a pink vintage ornament. :) As soon as the 4 feet of snow melts and I can get into the garage.
And I'm sorry, but I had to laugh at the dog eating the gumball wreath. I know it's sad but I just kept picturing what he must have been thinking lol. YUM
Oh gee! Heartbreaking!
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