Today my 3YO granddaughter broke a snow globe. No injury, fortunately. Just the glass globe broke, and of course the contents were all over the place. The worse thing is, I had stepped out of the room for a moment, and the globe SHOULD have been placed out of her reach, so it’s also my fault. To make it still worse, the globe belongs to my daughter (the one who’s not the grandchild’s mother) and it was a gift at least 20 years ago from my mother, now deceased. It was one of the few things my daughter had from her grandmother.
I want to make it right. My husband says he’ll just buy another snow globe the same size, open it up and glue the globe (with its contents) onto the broken one. I say the best thing is to send it off for professional repair; I found the name of a company who does this sort of thing.
Has anyone done a similar thing? Would my husband’s proposal work? I am skeptical.
I don’t see why his proposal wouldn’t work, as long as you don’t mind damaging the non-glass parts of the new one to do it. And it’d almost certainly be much cheaper than any place you’d have to send it off to.
I’d send if off. It’s too special to your daughter and not that expensive to risk it. When you factor in the cost of another snowglobe to replace the globe with, I just don’t think it would be worth it. And it might be harder than it seems to remove the base from an existing snowglobe without breaking the globe.