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<\/a><\/p>\nSo\u00a0I dug out the box and thought I’d read just one.\u00a0That letter lead to another and another and another until I couldn’t bring myself to part with them.\u00a0\u00a0 Unfolding before my eyes\u00a0were not only\u00a0details of my\u00a0past, that\u00a0I’d forgotten, but also\u00a0the history of my relationship with my mum and her relationship with the family. The more I read the more I remembered\u00a0as mum dutifully\u00a0kept me informed of all my family’s\u00a0ups and downs.\u00a0 The clincher in keeping the letters was that it also detailed the evolution of my relationship with my partner and father to our children.\u00a0 I decided to keep th I still wanted to make beads to give to the family so I selectively cut up a couple of letters, much to my daughter’s horror: “I hope you’ve scanned those mum?”\u00a0 I was one step ahead of her, scanned, printed and put in date order.\u00a0 I gave\u00a0family members the actual letters, as beads.<\/p>\n Inspired by a wire bead tutorial I got from the Mocknet shop on Etsy, I had a go at using the same techniques with several tweaks as I already had the finished beads.\u00a0 Well, I felt like mum was in The Laundry with me. The project prompted me to get out my sterling silver wire and start making, just do it!\u00a0 Although it was starting small, I loved it.\u00a0 Thanks to mum I became unstuck and completed my first project in The Laundry, and this one was just for me. In the good old days of pen and ink, my mother wrote me letters whenever I was away.\u00a0 Over the years she would say “I hope you’re burning those letters” and I would always reply yes.\u00a0Well, you may have guessed that was not the case!\u00a0 In fact, I kept all her letters from 1980 until […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>e letters\u00a0for them so they’ll have an insight into their parents, a family history if you like.<\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0 Thanks mum!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"