[Jewelry making - Article 00381] - Re: [Orchid] CZ-Synthetic

[Judy Pottins]

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    I'm trying to follow the thread about what is synthetic and what is
    simulated and I think I see it meandering its way to the handcrafted
    versus fabricated thread. And someone (forgive me for the short
    memory, it's 1 am and I really oughta be in bed) alluded to the
    not-very-good sales antics of the people who sell jewellery on the
    shopping channel. Here's my point: (briefly) But for ready-made and
    mass-made jewellery, I don't think I could afford to wear the
    jewellery that I love if I had to buy from the Crafts People. Not
    that I don't want to. From my earliest starry eyed forays into my
    late Auntie Lottie's jewellery box which kept me dreaming for years
    and years, jewellery has mesmerized me. Why? I don't know. Probably
    it's an inherited defect. But I like the defect. I am proud of this
    defect. I like to say that my jewellery classmates are like-minded
    addicts. When we are together, it's like Al Anon: everyone lets it
    all hang out. We salivate unrepentantly over each others baubles. No
    jealousy there. We murmur appreciatively over my friends' new
    trinkets that her new husband likes to shower on her. It's
    wonderful. No other way to describe it. And my favourite ring is an
    aquamarine, not a bad stone, too pale for the gurus but for me it's
    my favourite colour: winter sky gray with a hint of blue. And I
    bought it, where  else? from the shopping channel. And I like to
    wear peridot earrings made in Thailand. The stones are chipped and
    the whole thing was whipped together too fast to be sold to the
    greedy west too cheaply. Yet I like to think that my earrings were
    made by a man or a woman who may, or may not have been having a bad
    day. No food at home. The baby's sick. And they made my earrings all
    the same. I love to wear earrings made by hands in a country I may
    never, despite my best efforts, ever see in this lifetime. So there you have it.


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