Seeds or Stones

At conferences etc., we receive the command and exhortation, "Be the light. Let your light shine."

I did. This is the personal narrative which encompasses be the light.

I came home. I was cleaning and ordering my home. Anyway, I found all sorts of pieces. I set them on a table, in the light. I mean jewelry broken pieces and parts, and bits found or identified as sets, which for all I can tell are sets. My husband fixed jewelry.

The question comes into play, "Is that a seed or a stone?" Can a seed be used for jewelry? I say yes. Some might say no.

I have a light. Imagine that. It is for camping, but it is a versatile light, not just a flashlight. It has more features on it. I dust. I clean corners. Lately, I've been shining the light onto the dust, before I throw it out. Guess. Guess what happened. I shone the light on the dust, and it sparkled. I found a gem stone, of unknown quality, and I picked it up, and put it into my repair and parts box.

There were two things on the floor of interest. There was a seed. There was a stone. After close examination, I threw out the seed. And I kept the stone.

I stopped. Can a seed be used in Jewelry?

I have a couple bowls of seeds sitting on the counter in the kitchen. They are next to be dried. I make drums, and stain them pretty colors. I picked the brilliant colors of drums. After I dry the seeds, my husband will make a jig, and make a hole through each seed, and I will stain the seeds. And then, I will make necklaces. There's years. This year, there are a lot of seeds. There are more seeds than I have processed. Were I to collect, I would find more in my grass.

With this resource, I will make earrings and necklaces.

And I will have made the beads, well, ourselves. My husband and I will make the seeds the rainbow colors or sunrise colors.

Next year, I will be more careful collecting seeds. I will not throw them out. I have some seeds here. I did already collect some in years past. Now, I have a process. And we have yet to make the jig. It's coming.

And I am dreaming colors. I am figuring out my stain process, and where to slot that in.

Seeds are used for jewelry.

Back to the stone. Among my broken jewelry, I have items missing stones. One of the ways I determine the right one is the fit. I've assembled pieces for my husband to fix. Now, with this gemstone, I will pull together the perfect fit, and the part.

And that means I need glue. I don't have it. We have found the part/product.

Most of the time, jewelry falls apart because something was not right. Storage is a huge issue as to why jewelry breaks. And the mystery is I have my grandmother's jewelry, and things broke. Others would throw it out, because it's not worth the challenge. I call my husband. I tell him what is wrong, and I ask for his insights. He had a good one. A piece of jewelry was destroyed by jewelry polish. Get that. The fix is to get the jewelry polish out of the piece. Once that has been done on the jewelry, then, I am a step closer to wearing it. It looks like a peacock feather, so it is worth the effort. Next, we need sauder. We need to sauder metal to wholeness.

And here or there, we need to fix broken claws, if that were possible.

Shining lights on floors. I've been shining lights on floors. And in drawers. And in all kinds of little places. The light picks up the glint of glitter. And the glitter is returning to its proper place.

So, will anyone care I have a piece from pre-1960's? Probably not.

Are those the only pieces which fall apart? No. Sadly, there are construction problems in jewelry, and not just the inexpensive jewelry.

Recently, I looked at jewelry. Get this. There's a manufacturer making jewelry from blinds cords of the past. The chain of the blind which we all considered cheap, low cost, and essentially, a piece of house hardware is now being sold as jewelry. The pieces being sold are expensive, and the chain looks like something off a toilet. Will that chain break? Yup. The chain, based on my assessment, is weak. Has anything changed in their manufacture? It better have. Because it is from a time past, and a use past, younger people won't know what it was used for before. And tell me, how many will buy it?

It's gross. And you too can buy it. Yeah.

I think my grandmother would smile about me renovating her jewelry. And God must be bringing me the pieces, or it would not be being reassembled.

Peacock feathers. Peacock colors. Seeds. Stones. Sparkle. Invention. Quality assessment.

All that.

I'm amazed I created enough order to find missing pieces, and stones among dust. It would be super easy to vacuum such things up. And well, order. I see order. I have equipment to create order. Enjoying tools is the preset to pulling lost or parted items back together.

When you see my jewelry, which I made from seeds in my yard, and you see the pretty colors, remember the Son. In your sunrise, whatever it looks like, as you see the Son rise, remember the Son.

Most of my grandmother's things went in sales to others. It is a bit of a mystery how I even got these things. I brought unwanted excess home - whatever I was given. It was stuff which was considered "take to the shelter" or whatever. While sorting through family memory, I found things. I found a bit here, and a bit there, and this was broken, and that was broken. And now, my little glitter is taking shape. And soon, I will wear a dream my grandmother had, of a peacock. And we will wear one dream.

I am proof you can reassemble dreams from broken pieces, even from those pieces of your forefathers. If you have vision, you can pull together the design and engineering of a finished piece. Vision is the predecessor also of a complete picture. My heart fills in the missing pieces.

These are puzzles of a different sort. A person must be willing to puzzle through to the finish. Who does that? And who does that with light?

I saw something weird. I saw pearls embedded with imitation stones. Crystals. Why would you do that? Why would you wreck a pearl, unless the pearl is an imitation, by putting crystals into it?

That's not my style certainly. Everyone has a style. They have to consider what is their style. Seeds will be. Seeds will be one of my styles. If I were responsible for a jewelry manufactuer industry, my vacuum would have a gem filter on it. And I would ensure that missing parts for jewelry would not go missing. What would you use as a jewelry parts filter for your vacuum?

I did make a mistake. I bought a vacuum end which I used to vacuum under the stove and fridge. because I don't like yuck. I was sure I had vacuumed up the precious, as I listened to sounds of clinks and clops. My husband dismantled the bits I pulled up, and he told me I had not taken up anything overly precious, and to not worry. Those are the kinds of places cats shoot glitter. Anyway, I've cleaned up under there before. And in those events, I found nothing. So, hopefully, these are places my cats don't play with glitter or essential parts. If you have a pet, and they are reaching under something for something they see, I recommend looking. You never know what you might find. We follow their lead. We look. And I've not found something super precious yet, but I expect fruit. I found a dozen of their favorite cat toys. And so, we are back in business in play.

If a cat finds a little bit which shines around, including those things which might belong to jewelry, they collect them certain places. So, it behooves a pet parent to look there, because the cat has done the work to collect the items to their favorite places for shooting things. It is good to know your cat's habits, and work with the benefits of them.

As I prepare to do another task here, my bead colors will be:

Peacock.
Sunrise.
Vine.

And I will revisit stains today, for if I am missing any element of dream.

Would freezing impact the quality of the seed, to be used for jewelry? I have to think about that. I think not. I have perhaps another round to go. If God partners with me, I have another round to go.

Update: If a person made a necklace of seeds, and by accident, one planted their necklace in the ground, would we want a fruit orchard to launch?

Ought I end the fruitfulness of the seeds? That seems so wrong.

I will have to work this out. Drying them, I have not compromised their planting ability.

Update2: I fixed my ear rings from high school. I fixed a bunch of them, all the odds and ends. I have just a few left. I may stop, or I may continue. I think this ought be called a hobby or a craft.

There ought to be courses on these things, so that a person does not throw their things out. I had great pleasure from the restorations. I've been wondering about changing the overall theme of some of the things. If I can't find parts, certain pieces can be donor pieces. They can help fix other pieces. And I could use what each has, and recreate it. I love red. Say there's not enough. A pack of resources from a local store can help transform a white necklace to a red necklace.