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Cleaning your silver

by Cyndi Lavin

Do you have today off? If so, you might want to think about a little maintenance work:

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Virginia, over at Art Bead Scene, has a great little tutorial on how easy it is to clean the tarnish off your silver! It involves baking soda and aluminum foil, which might sound like hocus-pocus, but I can attest to the fact that it works!

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Posted in Other Bead & Jewelry Sites, Tutorials & Techniques, Wearable Art, Wire on December 26th, 2007

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