Featured Look What Someone Did to a 14k Gold Brooch

Someone ?........awwwwwww....

 

tie,dye.cat....Great work...lovely pin (now!!!!!)..

 

Someone ?........awwwwwww....

Okay, Komo... As YOU so clearly stated:
some have no taste at all.....

But really, just think... what if YOUR 85 or 90-year-old mother (or aunt, or whatever...) thought that the pin looked perfectly LOVELY enhanced by blue & sparkly rhinestones??? Would you deprive her of that pleasure?

 

If I knew it was 14 K gold......I'd run out and buy her one that had the look she liked........& TRADE her for it !

 

Oh, Komo...

Before my sisters & I had my (now 89-year old) Mom's kitchen completely re-done the year before last, she had cut out a zillion FLOWER pictures from seed catalogs & decoupaged them all over her kitchen cabinets!!!

Mom was an ASID designer in her day & always had what I STILL consider impeccable taste, but her mind is not what it used to be.

The cabinets were positively horrendous, yet I can absolutely understand her desire to have something "new", "bright", and "different"...

Mom is still positively THRILLED with her re-done kitchen, but if she gets it in her head again to "brighten it up", you can be sure that one of us will (carefully, tactfully) intervene!

 

My mom is an over medicated alzheimer's blob in a long term care facility...
before that she was a splendid homemaker, baker, volunteer, librarian, sportswoman, with a good sense of taste...................

 

Thanks................me too !

She's a 10 minute drive from me....but I just can't bring myself to see her that often.
Dad visits her every weekend......someday's he comes away feeling better for seeing her.......someday's he goes home morose...!

 

Sorry to hear that komo. Going through that right now with both my folks. My mom has parkinsons dementia and my dad has dementia that we've not had diagnosed as of yet (it came on suddenly, literally overnight). The grief and loss you feel is that of if they had passed away, and yet they haven't.

Though I must say, my dad has done more traveling (in his mind) these past 6 months than he has in most of his life. Just last week he told me he had been in a gunfight in our town and somehow escaped unscathed!

 

Sorry for the thread hijack, Tie dye.........but I've been having a rough few weeks of it.

 

Komo, I am so, so sorry - and Tie Dye, the same to you, as well.

Alzheimer's and all varieties of dementia are such insidious adversaries - such hell for those who suffer them, and even worse, in most cases, for their loved ones.

My heart hurts for anyone trying to deal with these troubles. (Komo, I know "rough" doesn't even begin to describe it.)

Be kind to yourselves, both of you.

-C-

 

No worries at all komo. It is a very hard thing to go through as SBSVC said.

 

thank you....

 

tie-dye.cat and komokwa, so sorry to hear about your loved ones and alzheimer's.
Lost my mom to it, dreadful disease.
Komokwa, don't beat yourself up because you don't visit often, your mom would understand!

 

It is really beautiful!! Restored of course.

 

tie-die.cat and komo, I do know what you've both been through....Thank God I had two older brothers to rotate helping with our mother and younger brother as they passed withing a month of each other a number of years ago....Mom with dementia and younger "challenged" brother pancreatic CA. It's all a part of life, I know, but a VERY tough ship to be on at the time. Blessings to you both.

 

I so adore the pin! When I was in high school, it was the thing to have a plain round circle pin and I just never got over them, I suppose.

Once I got a metal "thing" as an extra in a box lot. It was gold and I could clearly see that it had been spray painted. Almost threw it away because who would spray paint gold something that was nice, right? Well, I scratched it and underneath it was silver, so I cleaned off the spray paint and found it to be sterling. As I remember, it was some kind of beautiful holder with a pretty purple glass bowl in it. Just lovely. I was lucky that the holder was plain and not curlequed up or the paint would have been harder to remove. For awhile, everything decorative is silver, and then for awhile it shifts to gold.

I also bought 2 very large Fenton silver crest vases that had been glued all over with sea shells and other weird stuff found on the beach. The original owner must have thought they were too plain.

I'm sure we all have stories like these and I love to hear them all, so amusing!

 

I've painted or messed with a few pieces myself, but always stuff that wasn't worth much when it was new. It was probably worth less when I got through with it.(LOL)
I've never had to deal directly with alzheimer's, but have watched friends go through that. It's no fun.