My latest binge TV show is “The Repair Shop.” It’s a heart warming and inspirational do-it-yourself show on steroids. I love that it’s British and there is an undercurrent of history. Magical things happen when they take on someone’s precious treasures. In each episode people bring in a special antique and the staff of the Repair Shop return the object to it’s former glory. The staff who do the repairs each have a specialty. There is a clock repairer who can actually make teeny tiny replacement parts, a woodworker who meticulously carves new decorative pieces to fill in missing ones on antique furniture, a museum quality ceramics expert who makes repairs that are invisible, plus skilled leather workers, toy experts, miracle upholsterers, and smithies. You name it they have it. I love the way they keep the integrity of the objects they are repairing and consider the history behind them. The people who bring them in usually want to be able to pass these treasures on to future generations and preserve the memories of their ancestors through them. There is a great deal of love, respect, and creativity in the process and a true joy in the faces of the owners when they come back to retrieve them. Things are not just repaired. The broken is healed. I feel the healing when I watch the show. I want to be able to repair things with the same love, respect, and creativity in my own life. I am working on restoring some mosaic stepping stones I made years ago. They have been outside quite a few years and have lost some of their pieces. I want to be able to pass them on to my relatives and friends like the people on the show who bring in the physical reminders of their own loved ones. Luckily I don’t need the skills of the professionals on The Repair Shop to bring back some of the original beauty of my stepping stones, just some elbow grease, epoxy and a little new grout. It does feel healing to work on the stepping stones. I originally made them in memory of Mom and Dad. I put a lot of love into them to begin with, but now working on them again is helping me repair more than just the stepping stones. I miss my sister Linda and my Kitty and working on them is mending my broken heart too. Welcome to the Repair Shop Video
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Janet Robertson Johnson
11/19/2021 04:35:12 am
Thank you for sharing your self repair notes with us! The program you referred to looks so interesting. Very inspirational 😍
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