Striking guidelines on porcelain Roses

29 July 2010

This is a beautiful Burton & Burton teapot made in China and very inexpensive, but I have a major concern. After reading reviews about the possibility of LEAD in some teaware made in China, I purchased LeadCheck on amazon.com and tried it out. I tested this teapot four times with LeadCheck, and it gave POSITIVE results for lead each time. I tested LeadCheck several times on another mug made in China by Westfields also sold by Treasured Designs, and the results were consistently negative. I have asked Treasured Designs to test this Burton & Burton teapot for lead using an authoritative source, since all I was able to use was a home lead check test.

It is unsafe to use products made with lead for eating and drinking, so I thought I would pass this on. Hopefully, Treasured Designs will check into this and provide an authoritative response for this concern.

Does anyone, perhaps, feel like criticizing my story :]?
I wrote the prolusion/preface (whatever you feel like calling it) and I just wanted some critism. I know I already asked this question, and the answers were great, but it was late last night and I decided I would ask it again (plus I made some changes to it). This time I'll be specific on what I want criticized 1. If tthrees anything you LIKE about my writing, you can put that because honestly, good feedback motivates me :P2. If there's anything you DISLIKE about my writing (or if theres mistakes you think really need to be corrected), please please tell me. As much as I hate being told wrong, I will really appreciatee it in the future. I can handle a little truth :]You can also leave suggestions and all that sort, if you please; you can probably tell I'm very picky when it comes to my writing :Panyway, here is the prolusion to my story, just give me some honest feedback telling me everything you thought about it, and its easy 10 points. Prolusion Paris, France 1858 She was beautiful. Indeed, her looks were magnificent; she had long black hair and the most flawless porcelain skin. Men from all over Paris had sent her the best gifts money could buy, but she was never interested. Oh, what a waste it was! She could have had anything she wanted, but still. She just rejected the gifts and sent the men on their way. She sat alone in the grand ballroom as she watched everyone dance. She had always wished she could dance like they did, so elegant and graceful. But she was not here to watch the dancers, let alone dance; she was here to meet someone. Earlier that evening she had received a note written in the most exquisite hand-writing. The note itself was magical and charming--she could only imagine who the person that wrote it was like. When the clock had finally struck eleven, she walked outside to the garden where she would soon meet her admirer. She walked into a maze of red rose bushes, that in the night, matched her lacey dress. She had always loved red porcelain Roses roses, how they could look so sorrowful yet beautiful. “Ah, the roses.” A hoarse voice had said from behind her. “Quite beautiful, they are. And yes, you are right, sorrowful as well--almost like you.” She turned around to see a tired-looking woman behind her. “You wouldn’t happen to be the writer of this letter, would you?” She asked the woman, though she was sure this woman couldn’t have been the mysterious writer. “Why, were you picturing a handsome man who would sweep you off your feet?” she swooned. “Sorry, mademoiselle, you’re just going to have to settle for me.” she smiled wickedly and slowly pulled a dagger out of her long coat. “W-what are you doing?” she started backing away. “Don’t play innocent,” the woman spit out like the venom of a deadly snake; in fact, the woman was snake-like. “You and I both know what you have done!” “I am sorry, but I do not know what you’re talking about.” She stepped back until she was aligned with the roses. She was cornered and confined inside a maze of rose hedges; she felt helpless. “That is because you are helpless, darling.” The woman’s wicked grin got bigger as she crept closer to where she was standing. The girl just gulped and became one with the rose bush. She had known in her heart this was it--there was no way of escaping. “Since you stole my fiancé with your insidious looks--” “I did no such thing!” she protested, but the woman ignored her. “I will make sure you are never happy, you will live in sorrow and death forever.” This woman was truly evil, she just couldn’t believe her life was about to end. “Ah, and the best part? You will have to live your miserable life over and over again. You see, I am going to kill you and you will reincarnate into a hideous monster every time you die.” The woman laughed a jarring malicious laugh and pointed the dagger towards the girls chest. She respired her last sweet breath and closed her eyes as the sharp dagger pierced her heart and she met her demise…Yea, thats my preface/prolusion. I indented my paragraphs on Word but they got messed up when I pasted it here but I hope its still legible.So, just tell me what you think--you can be harsh if you'd like, I'm pretty sure I can handle it ;]Thanks.Sorry if there are misspellings, I noticed in the begginning I spelt "there's" like "tthrees" and I have no clue how that happened... I think the spell-check thing was lagging :PAnd, yes I am going for a kind of sci-fy feel, but its more fantasy. I might as well just explain my plot so it can be better understood.When the woman said she'd reincarnate into a monster, she didn't mean it literally as in an ugly beast.My character, Callista, lives in a life full of death. When she was reincarnated from the girl in the beginning of the story, she gained this horrible ability (I guess you can call it ability). Since the old woman envied her, she put a curse that would reincarnate her every time she dies and every time, she has a touch of death. So now, she can't get close to people and she can't fall in love. Her mother died at birth, and her father died two weeks later. When she touches someone, even the slightest bit, it slowly and painfully kills them and she has to watch it. Later on in the story she meets a guy who happens to be some sort of angel (I'm still not completely planned out as you can tell), and he planned to kill her and make sure she never re^ it cut me off >.>So, anyway, he was going to kill her because she caused to much death, blah blah blah. And then they both fall in love and they find a way to reverse the curse (if you will :P)But instead of the happy ending everyone's looking forward to, there's a huge price to pay and that will be countinued in the sequel.That was pretty much a really lame sped-up version, but whatever. I just wanted you guys to get a better understanding on it.Thanks for the critism so far, by the way.And you're right, she did seem very ditsy in the garden and that made it seem unrealistic. Now that I realize that, I will try making it more real. Thank you :]
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