Pro Repairs

Even though I try to be environmentally mindful by buying second hand as much as possible, I know there’s always room for improvement. One of the ways I’m trying to slow down my consumption is by repairing things rather than replacing things.

I’ve been trying to fox most things myself, For example, for example, I got this pink coral torsade at the Salvation Army Thrift in Gravenhurst a couple of weeks ago. It needed a new closure and I harvested one from another lesser necklace with a sterling silver clasp. Easy Peasy.

The pearls came from a bag of broken jewelry. They pass the tooth test, but I can’t tell you if they are cultured or of good quality but I liked the length of them. It’s what they call the “matinee length.” It was the same length as a strand of fake pearls that had belonged to my late neighbour Ilse. That necklace had a gorgeous, atomic era 14k clasp. So in tribute to Ilse, I married her clasp with my pearls.
I have attempted to knot or restring pearls myself in the past, but this time I decided to outsource and took them to my local jewelry store. I’ve been wearing this combo for almost a week straight.

I went on YouTube to try and to fix my beloved but broken jade bangle myself with epoxy. It worked for a while but the bracelet broke again. My friend Jeanie suggested going to a place that sold Jade bangles because they probably deal with this sort of thing all the time. So I went to Dang Jewellers in Parkdale and he put it back together it up using silver patches.