Glitter is the herpes of the craft world

[jethrien]

You may never figure out where it came from. But once you've got it, nothing will ever make it go away. Oh, it'll die down, of course. You might go months without seeing a sign. But it will flare up again, where and when you least expected it. Once you've got herpes, I mean, glitter, you've got it for life. And if you touch anything else, it will spread, even if you didn't realize you had glitter on you at the time.

Why is this relevant? I've got glitter on my desk. No idea where it came from. And it's the superfine microscopic stuff, too. Repeated mopping downs removes immense quantities of glitter, and yet, the next day there's more somehow. There's now glitter in the invoices. And the files. It's in my keyboard. We very well may send out binders with glitter in them. I've done my best, but I will still pick up papers and realize that it looks like it was attacked by a three-year-old at craft time.

Sigh.

Comments

[firynze.livejournal.com]

I still sneeze glitter occasionally, after an Incident when I was 17 and working as an instructor at a summer arts camp, and somehow got assigned to the preschoolers instead of the usual sculpture group.

Glitter: the horror that keeps on giving.

[carrieb.livejournal.com]

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[jethrien.livejournal.com]

You're welcome to read, if you'd like. Hi!

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I have started to get a little shriek-y when I see glitter anywhere near me because, invariably, it ends up all over me. Or, worse, just the one piece will get stuck to some super-obvious spot, like my face, and I'll walk around all day wondering why people are staring. (They're trying to figure out if there is actually a piece of glitter on my face.) Haaaaaaate.

[qiika.livejournal.com]

The cards that come in the mail around holiday time are an inescapable source of glitter. Even if you don't open the envelope, once it comes through the mail slot, you are infected. If you open it accidentally - forget it. Glitter gets all through the house.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I didn't even get any glittery cards at work this year. My current theory has been that it came off of someone else's glittery card.

[cubby-t-bear.livejournal.com]

Somebody should send the TSA Christmas cards decorated with loose glitter :)

[manduh425.livejournal.com]

I agree with this. I *hate* glitter!

I used to retouch photos at a photography studio, and people would wear glitter in their pictures, and they would just turn into orange/yellow flashes of crap once the flash reflected off. It was a pain.

[lithoglyphic.livejournal.com]

ROFL