[Jewelry making - Article 00097] - Re: [Orchid] Visiting Los Angeles

[Dian Deevey]

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Dear Beth,

    Your suggestions are exactly what I was hoping for.  I have just
    changed my reservations to give me 3 extra days to follow up those
    suggestions, and David Barzilay's.  An Orchid member named Verne
    Terwilliger contacted me offline suggesting the Bowers Museum in
    Santa Ana.  I checked out the URL he sent and the two special
    exhibits he suggested do look pretty interesting.  One is antique
    Chinese objects including jewelry, and the other an exhibit of what
    look to be magnificent gems. If you haven't heard of it, the URL is: 

    http://www.bowers.org/pages/new_revisions/exhibits_current.asp 

    Right now my trip is scheduled for 2/10 to 2/19.  I'd love to see you
    while there, but I have been slow to suggest personal visits because
    I am not really a working jeweler.  I am learning and my progress is
    very slow, probably because I took the whole thing up after
    retirement, and have never had the motor skills some people seem born
    with.  So frankly don't ever expect to have the kind of skills or
    artistic talent the working jewelers on Orchid have.  It's daunting,
    but I love trying to learn and do.  All my life I've been trying to
    gain academic knowledge of antique jewelry andn the fabrication
    methods employed to produce them.  I have a small but interesting
    jewelry collection, including some Pre-Columbian and a few very old
    Greek and Roman pieces. 

Thanks again.

Dian


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