I am the first to admit that my multi-tasking days are showing signs of duress at the seams. Rushing around for a top-speed forage in the china cabinet in between the weekend's round of festivities I dropped a cup onto one of my painstakingly collected pieces of Christmas china, chipping a tiny slither off the edge of the Christmas Rose bowl.
The following evening, during a high spirited communal art project staging above the fireplace, the super-sized painting tipped and sent an old Father Christmas ornament flying off the mantle. The ornament was one of a pair from way back when we first arrived in the States and pretty much everything we had came from yard sales and thrift stores.
Sentimental value being what it is in my books, I popped down to Rex Ace Hardware, in downtown Petaluma and my old neighbor, Jack, happened to be on the floor that afternoon, awaiting the harebrained, harried and hapless such as myself, looking for an answer to fix the broken pieces of the world!
Jack warned me not to get the store's magic Insta-Cure potion on my fingers, when fumbling about with the fix, followed by a spray sealer of Insta-Set. He said I'd be speaking at least four languages - which, in retrospect, might come in handy someday.
I'd heard that a pan of boiling milk is the old wive's answer to sealing the deal on a repaired piece of broken china, but I didn't have a big enough pot or several gallons of milk on hand, so the Rex Ace Hardware solution was plenty good enough for me, the Christmas Rose bowl and a happily recapitated Father Christmas. Thought I'd share this tale of domesticity in case you've any broken ornaments sitting on your kitchen counter awaiting a quick fix.
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