[Jewelry making - Article 00157] - Re: [Orchid] Resurrecting old pearls

[Helen Hill]

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Hi Tess,

    At the risk of repeating myself and boring everyone senseless, I
    feel that I must go through with this project. I can't mislead her. I
    don't do lying and if I replaced them with other beads, I feel that
    I would be doing just that. They arrived in my possession via my
    husband who went round to see his parents. When I saw the state of
    the "pearls", I asked him why on earth he hadn't told them NO. He
    just said "do your best - it's all she has left of my grandma". I
    have tried repeatedly to get him to explain to his mother that it is
    almost impossible but all he will say on the subject is "just do
    your best"! At one point he got shirty and said that if I don't do
    them then he will. He is not artistic in the slightest and doesn't
    really pay attention to detail so I feel that I must do it. I will
    get back to everyone as to how it went but it will be a while as I've
    a few other commitments first. 

    I'm actually looking forward to doing it now - if nothing else, the
    defiant part of my personally wants to do it because everyone says
    it's not possible. It's our human nature, if someone says you can't
    do it, you want to do it even more. 

    I do really appreciate your sentiments though Tess, thank you, and I
    appreciate the advice of everyone who has either advised me not to
    do it, to save me from an embarrassing situation and a very labour
    intensive job and those who have offered practical ideas and advice.
    I'll have to put pictures on Flickr afterwards. 

Helen
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