OOPS !! I bought a shiny red crackle glass jug off of ebay as part of a Christmas gift for my cousin who collects crackled art glass pieces. After checking my Steem and stuff I saw in my gmail that the jug had been delivered. I grabbed my fluffy cape, pulled it over my house dress, slid my feet into some sandals, grabbed my flashlight and shuffled out across the street to my mailbox. I'm semi rural....it's across the street.... arghhhh..... only one car passed me while there, so not too many witnesses to my fancy mode of nighttime dressing. LOL !!
Like all glass pieces I buy, the first thing I did once it was out of the box, was take it to the sink to wash. I was very careful as I always am, yet right as I was about to grab a towel to dry it off, I accidentally tapped it on the side of the sink, at which time it semi exploded into a bazillion pieces in my hands. Crackle glass you see, already has a million cracks in it, once it hit, it simply crumbled. Big pieces, small pieces SLIVERS and bits. It may have been 5 minutes ... no maybe 6 minutes out of the box.
It only cut my hands in 4 places and only one of them left a blood trail to the living room where I grabbed a clean cloth. That makes it sound worse than it turned out, but the cut instead of going really deep, it sliced a little sideways which made it bleed a while. What a nuisance !!
After getting a clean cloth around my fingers I realized a few slivers were clinging to the top of my dress, so I stood over the washer and peeled it off from the back and up over my head. No... don't even try to imagine that feat, while holding the bottom of the front of the dress over over the top of the dress to keep any of the glass from falling to the floor ! Yeah... that was fun..... real. fun.
Below is a picture very similar to what the jug looked like when it came out of the box. This photo isn't mine. I grabbed it from google. I didn't have the jug long enough to take my own photo.
I text a picture of the broken piece to my cousin who it was originally intended for and labeled it "Sneak Peek at your Christmas present" LOL... yeah... I thought I was funny.
Ok.... not the way I planned to spend my evening, doing self first aid and washing and vacuuming to make sure no slivers and bits are left.
Jeepers Creepers.... tonight I am Charlie Brown !
Hope no mini disasters have happened to you tonight.
