Monday Blahs

I didn't do much of anything today. Still feeling a little under the weather. Cleaned my grandmother's jewelry, which was a nice activity, as I miss her, and cleaning all her old butterfly pins made me feel a little closer to her (she passed away in 2003). It's amazing what cleaning several years of dust off of a piece of jewelry will do for it. :) She had these Monet goldtone pins, one butterfly and one bumblebee, both with white enamel around the edges of their wings and on their bodies. I could not believe the HUGE difference cleaning made. They're practically like new. :) She also had three necklaces I'm going to break apart to use the beads for other projects. Two of them date back to the 70's, and one to probably the 60's. (There's a third, but I love it so much, there's no *way* I'm breaking it apart.) I wish I could find out more about that one. It's of really neat pink glass beads in two strands, strung on delicate chain, and the ornate pieces at the ends of the strands are silvertone and say Tobe' on the backside. If anyone knows anything about it, I'd love to know. If it's a collector's item, I probably shouldn't break it apart. I doubt it is, since I can't find it on the web, but you never know. The others are of amethyst-colored glass beads I just like and will use for other things, since they're vintage. Bookmarks, maybe. I don't know yet. And I found my great grandmother's watch. That's pretty neat, because my mom had the copper bracelets GG used to wear that I played with when she held me in her lap, and some loser punk kids broke into Mom's house in Arlington and stole them. So this watch was in with all the pins and stuff, and I looked on the back, under the grossgrain ribbon band, to see if there was any kind of markings, and it bears GG's monogram. So that's really neat. :) I'd love to have it cleaned and see if it still works. She must have really loved copper, because the body of the watch is copper, too. :)

That's about it. Have a good day!

Jenie