pearls everyday

Since no one more knowledgeable has responded, I'll take a cut at this. I would think that if you cleaned the band with a damp cloth after wearing it when you've put on lotion or sunscreen, it would probably be okay. With lotion in particular, if you can put it on far enough ahead of when you put the watch on that it's completely absorbed into the skin, it shouldn't be any worse on the pearls than your natural skin oils. Sunscreen is iffier, but it's not that much different from lotion, I would think. But I am NOT an expert on this, I'm just making my best guess.

Celine (p&e)

Sooz, thanks for the heads-up. I really appreciate the FYI, since all I know about them is what little they've been batted around here, and the links that you've suggested.

Jewitch

BTW, there is a package sitting on my desk, next to my moniter, calling my name. Unfortunately, hubby won't be home until about 9:30, and he asked that I not open it until he got home.

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Thank you for writing. Now that you mention it, I have had a similar experience with sunscreen and clear plastic. I scraped the last of a bottle of sunscreen into a small pillbox container, and the sunscreen really chewed up the plastic bottom. The plastic's surface is rough & irregular, and the plastic is cloudy. Powerful stuff, sunscreen!!!

Thank you to everybody who responded to my post. Looks like my choices are

1. restring with glass & metal beads only
2. wear my watch mostly in winter; if in summer, late in the day

The irregularity of the pearls contrast nicely with the rectangular glass beads, but I felt, even with the band only half-finished, that it looked "too Neiman Marcus" (dressy) for every day. I think that it's the pearls that do that, because pearls are delicate.

So, a reason to look at more beads! Thanks again to everyone who responded!

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from iKitty :

]So, a reason to look at more beads!

we need reasons? no one ever explained that part to me! LOL!

i'm sorry about your watch, tho!

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

's not what you take, when you leave this world behind you;it's what you leave behind you when you go. -- Randy Travis

So finish it anyhow, and make it your "special occasion" watch, and then make another one for everyday! See how simple that was?

Celine

That should work well.

I should try that. I have avoided pearls because of the extra care they require.

Tina