Let's Talk Insp-oo-ration

My heart for your pearls of inspiration.


K, so I've been discreetly taking photographs of people wearing nice jewellery on the ttc. I was told in class today that I should try to actually start a conversation with these people and pass out my card. But because I don't like to impose my oddness upon others, this has been quite hard. I debated with myself at sevvvvvv-ral stops today along the ttc as to whether or not to change seats beside an elderly black woman with funky jewellery. So, instead I took a picture, and she was weirded out. LOL, so I deleted the picture. Moral of the story: better to talk than stalk...


I bet she is the funky fun grandma to somebody cool.. blah. I wouldn't know now.





Right, so: I also get inspriation from my obsession with screen capturing nice jewellery on tv.. GOSSIP GIRL






has the most amazing peices. and the interesting thing I find about it, is that some of that stuff is so old fashioned and classic costume jewellery, not like you are seeing as street wear these days. It always makes me want to play with pearls in a modern way...




I also like to go by shop windows and take a look at the manicans. This way, I can have a little section of my portfolio dedicated to demonstrating how the shape and style of the peice might be matched with the customers outfit. If I learned anything from film school: photographic examples make it so that explaining an artistic concept isn't so darn hard..




I'll reiterate that my business won't function the way I want it to until I have clients who want to inspire me to make jewellery for their personality types... Tell me what you like about you.. and then you can like your jewellery too :P

Simply Pretty

Any suggestions on what to imagine when you don't want to think what you are thinking, or be where you are being? I think I might invest in one of those corny mindful meditation tapes, because I draw such a blank for what fantasy life I'd love to have. I want to shut out the worrying...

Do you ever get concerned that when there comes a day you don't worry any more, you'll be at a loss for what to do with yourself? I don't really have this fear, because I don't think that I'll ever really stop worrying. I'm going to stop saying the word worry now, because I am annoying myself.

Either way, today I went out and purchased a sketch book, markers, pencil crayons and the like, and have started to actually sketch jewellery design ideas. So far, so sloppy. I get kinda tired of drawing dozens of perfect circles, and eventually they all end up different sizes and the necklace doesn't look as good on paper as it does in my head.

That says something about my artistic style.. it's funny that beading is so much about percision and patterns, but when I used to paint or draw it isn't at all about what comes next...

I have to learn to incorporate this kind of immediacey into my designs, arbitrary, less strict. I'm so caught up with how I don't feel my designs are complicated enough to compare, but honestly, sometimes I see some very intricate designs and think, if only that were a little less cluttered, you could see her collar bones clearer, it would lead me to the neck line of her dress in an elegant way, adorn her tasteful cleavage instead of drape it in distraction.

Simply pretty.