[Jewelry making - Article 00077] - Re: [Orchid] Jeweler's former lives

[Lisa Gallagher]

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    I'm adding on to my first answer to this post, I felt I should have
    noted what inspired me to actually do the jewelry stuff. As I
    mentioned, I've always been an artist/craftsman but I only started
    the metalsmithing in '99. I don't know why it took so long for me to
    do it, except maybe that it's an expensive hobby! My
    great-grandfather & my grandfather were both watchmakers, and they
    opened a jewelry store in 1914, so I grew up around jewelry. I worked
    there as a kid lining boxes, turning over price tags, and even
    learning how to knot pearls when I was 8 or so. My grandfather sold
    the store when he retired at about 77 years old, back in 1980 or so,
    but it's still there, now on its second owner since then & totally
    redone on the inside. Wm H Diller Jewelers in West Reading, PA. At
    any rate, I always thought I'd like to learn the trade, and one
    fateful day I happened into a jeweler's gallery with family on a
    vacation in WI and I saw this tiny little gold pendant pierced to
    show a flower design. So delicate, so pretty. I've always loved
    working with small things, and when I saw that pendant, I just KNEW I
    had no choice but to finally go forth with learning to make jewelry
    myself. I bought the pendant, then when we got back to the house I
    showed it to my husband & informed him that I had to learn how to do
    this! I've been in love with it ever since, and I now get to make my
    pieces while working at my great-grandfather's bench in my basement
    (as well many of his tools that were in the drawers), bought from the
    current owners as they totally re-did the place. :-) 

Lisa
Designs by Lisa Gallagher
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