This past Christmas my Mother-in-law put a box of garnet gemstones in my stocking. She said it was up to me to do what I wished with them.

Opening the box, this is what I found.

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Beautiful, flat pear-shaped garnets. Oh, so pretty!

But what to do with them?  Hmmmm.

Do I recreate the original item?

Do I take the pieces to create something new using all of them?

Or do I make multiple pieces?

After much contemplation and many hours sitting at my work table staring at the garnets, I decided to use the garnets to make multiple pieces.

And this is the first of many garnet pieces that I will be wearing.

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Thank you Anne!