[Jewelry making - Article 00639] - Re: [Orchid] Unusual Projects

[Deewo]

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>      Meanwhile I'm still trying to decide whether being able to wear
>     the carbon remains of a beloved relative or pet by turning them
>     into gems is a really lovely and more permanent sentiment...or
>     vaguely icky. Matter of personal taste, I suppose. 

    This entire thread reminds me of a workshop I attended some years
    ago.  The artist giving the workshop used to compound his own flux,
    which was particularly effective..  When  one of the students asked
    for the formula, he was shocked to learn that the artist was
    incorporating the ashes of his mother into the compound. Among
    ourselves, opinion was divided: 

	1.The guy was putting us on; 
	2. He was a weirdo
	3. To honor his mother's memory he was putting a little bit of her into 
all 
		of his work.
	4.He was desecrating his mother's remains.

    YOU  be the judge.  (the rest of us used commercial flux)           

Dee

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