Yesterday, New Year's day, I opened a cupboard and out flew my most precious possession: a Wedgewood teapot copied from one made for Charles Wesley, with a prayer on either side, it's a valuable antique and I don't know why it was on that particular shelf or how it got there but now it's in irreperable shards. The sides with the prayers are in big enough pieces ot be able to read most of the words, but the rest is in 1-2 inch pieces..
This teapot belonged to my beloved granny, who died when I was twelve and whom I still miss more than words could tell. She was the anchor for the whole family, Methodist minister's wife and daughter, warm, funny, gracious, kind, good, and my mainstay in childhood. Losing the teapot is like losing one of the last connections I had to her; everytime I made tea in it I thought of her and heard her laugh and felt her arms around me. (Tears streaming down my face as I write this)
Soooo- what to do with the shards? They're in a crystal bowl right now, but there must be some creative thing I can do to make a new thing of beauty out of the old. Anyone know what sorts of things can be made?

And how do I tell my mother....?