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Does the glitter on Lisa's bay leaf items come off?

whatsmyname — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 03:20:37 GMT

For you ladies that have Lisa's glittered bay leaf items from last year, does the glitter come off or is it baked in? TIA!

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Marsha2003 — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 04:20:33 GMT

The bay leaf items are new this year.

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KellKats — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 04:29:21 GMT

However, if you want to know about last year's cedar items, then YES they come off horribly but they are gorgeous though.

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birkin baby — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 04:36:12 GMT

Usually if it has glitter it will be a ""glitter-bomb"". I love the look but never do and decorating with the glitter covered items.

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SHOPR — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 22:44:08 GMT

I received the champagne bay leaf picks today.

I am so glad I remembered to take these outside to open. They are covered in super-fine dust-like champagne glitter, and speckled with small silver bits of tinsel.

The saddest part is that there are obvious patches where there is no glitter, and these areas are unfortunately on the most obvious leaves, as if they could have been packaged before they were dry.

I shook them like crazy anyway, and the glitter just never stopped. I had initially thought that I might try spraying them with clear spray paint, to stop the glitter, until I saw how there were so many empty patches.

By the way, the leaves are actually clear plastic on the champagne picks. The added colors come from the glitter and tinsel. That may be why the empty patches stand out so badly, because they are colorless/clear.

I hope others continue to have better luck with these than I did. I'm sure they will make someone's tree and garland gorgeous this year, just not mine.

Oh well, you can't win them all.

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Susan Louise — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 23:26:39 GMT

On 7/25/2014 SHOPR said:
I received the champagne bay leaf picks today.

I am so glad I remembered to take these outside to open. They are covered in super-fine dust-like champagne glitter, and speckled with small silver bits of tinsel.

The saddest part is that there are obvious patches where there is no glitter, and these areas are unfortunately on the most obvious leaves, as if they could have been packaged before they were dry.

I shook them like crazy anyway, and the glitter just never stopped. I had initially thought that I might try spraying them with clear spray paint, to stop the glitter, until I saw how there were so many empty patches.

By the way, the leaves are actually clear plastic on the champagne picks. The added colors come from the glitter and tinsel. That may be why the empty patches stand out so badly, because they are colorless/clear.

I hope others continue to have better luck with these than I did. I'm sure they will make someone's tree and garland gorgeous this year, just not mine.

Oh well, you can't win them all.

Hi SHOPR,

Wow! So sorry your picks are terrible! Our gold and bronze were perfect with barely a flake of glitter in the boxes.

I just can't get over HOW QVC doesn't get a better handle on QC...it's just ridiculous!

Re: Does the glitter on Lisa's bay leaf items come off?

RedHeadedWench — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 23:29:01 GMT

The garlands that Lisa had last year SHED LIKE #@)*%#. Seriously.

I don't know about this year's I haven't ordered anything yet.

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adoreqvc — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 00:54:48 GMT

The glitter shreds like mad and is so fine that you are afraid to breathe.

I got rid of all items that shed glitter last year.

Lisa's favorite items are gorgeous but no exception, because they also shed so much.

I really hate having to constantly clean glitter, because the items were beautiful and I bought a lot but they were not easy to maintain.

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imxpnsive — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 01:00:53 GMT

Wouldn't spraying a light coating of a fixative, available at Micheal's or Joanne's help with this glitter problem....?

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adoreqvc — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 09:24:13 GMT

imxpnsive

I tried a few different sprays recommended by craft pro's and all they did was make the items stink, sticky and tacky, and the ingredients caused the items to look and feel very brittle and unattractive.

So into the trash they all went. A big financial loss for sure, but at least no more irritating and unsafe to breath glitter to contend with.

On 7/26/2014 imxpnsive said:

Wouldn't spraying a light coating of a fixative, available at Micheal's or Joanne's help with this glitter problem....?

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EnglishRose88 — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 09:30:39 GMT

Mine shredded too. And just like the previous poster there are ""bald"" patches here and there. I'm really disappointed because they are beautiful but I really think I am going to send them back.

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Lucylu12 — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 13:40:59 GMT

I ordered all 4 colors and had a minimal amount of glitter. They are just lovely, no bare batches. I love them.

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SHOPR — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 16:03:16 GMT

On 7/27/2014 LadyBug77 said: Mine shredded too. And just like the previous poster there are "bald" patches here and there. I'm really disappointed because they are beautiful but I really think I am going to send them back.

Wow, I'm very sorry to hear that, but also relieved to know that I'm not alone or over-reacting in my disappointment in the bay leaf picks. Mine are already in transit back to Q. I took pics just in case there was an issue with my claim that they were defective. Here is one:

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RocketMom — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 16:25:34 GMT

Wow, I've got to check mine for bare patches right away!

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Marsha2003 — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 21:14:17 GMT

I have contractors at my house, so I didn't really inspect them. After reading your posts, SHOPR, I pulled them out of the closet today and some of my branches have the same problem, darn it. I bought the gold. I guess I'll have to take pictures and bundle these up to return.

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SHOPR — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 14:10:02 GMT

Sorry to hear that, Marsha. Have you noticed if the gold leaves are made of clear plastic, like the champagne leaves? Just being curious, since that was a surprise to me.

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RespectLife — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 17:20:35 GMT

I received the bronze last week. Yes, glitter everywhere once I opened the box. I expected glitter fall out though.

But I am not expecting bald spots! I only took out the first few because I didn't want glitter everywhere. I figured I had extended returns till holidays when I was actually going to use these. If the glitter was too bad...I could send them back then.

Thank you ladies, it is clear I need to check the quality on these asap! No sense hanging on to them if they look like some of yours did.

Appreciate the heads up!

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Marsha2003 — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 00:00:18 GMT

On 7/28/2014 SHOPR said:
Sorry to hear that, Marsha. Have you noticed if the gold leaves are made of clear plastic, like the champagne leaves? Just being curious, since that was a surprise to me.

The leaves in the gold set are a translucent yellow color. It's pretty obvious that however the paint and glitter were applied, some of the leaves stuck together so they didn't get coated. I'm glad now that I didn't buy any other items from this set like the wreath or the garland.

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Susan Louise — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 00:16:20 GMT

On 7/28/2014 Marsha2003 said:
On 7/28/2014 SHOPR said:
Sorry to hear that, Marsha. Have you noticed if the gold leaves are made of clear plastic, like the champagne leaves? Just being curious, since that was a surprise to me.

The leaves in the gold set are a translucent yellow color. It's pretty obvious that however the paint and glitter were applied, some of the leaves stuck together so they didn't get coated. I'm glad now that I didn't buy any other items from this set like the wreath or the garland.

Marsha, Sorry to hear you and SHOPR got bad sets of the bay leave picks. I guess I got lucky with my gold and bronze sets. I just looked at them all again and there are no leaves sticking together and I can't see the clear plastic underneath either. Guess I got lucky.

Those must have come from a bad batch. With no 'real' QC, it seems so many poor quality items pass through under the radar. If you return them, no doubt they probably will be sold 'as is'...hope not, but it won't be the 1st time.

How many picks had leaves that were stuck together? Maybe you can still use the pics but just cut off the bad ones?

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SHOPR — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 02:53:48 GMT

SL, I'd guess 3-5 leaves from each bad pick had the obvious bald spots. I can't remember how many picks were affected. I had considered cutting off the bad leaves like you suggested, but the picks didn't really seem full enough to do that, plus they didn't seem flexible enough to adjust the remaining leaves to make up for the missing ones. I didn't try it and they've already been returned. Interesting, Marsha, about the translucent yellow. Makes sense.