[Jewelry making - Article 00155] - Re: [Orchid] Jewelry making fever

[Loren S. Damewood]

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    Carol, Yes, the fever lasts, if you feed it properly.  Make new
    stuff, or make things in new ways, and it will become more and more
    interesting.  If you get stuck doing the same thing over and over,
    though, it might pall a little bit. 

    I'm incredibly lucky, since I have a real day-job and can afford to
    be a starving artist on the side.  It means that I don't generally
    have to do anything I don't want to do, artistically, and I've
    cheerfully sent potential customers to my "competitors" when I didn't
    regard their requests as being within my field, or of sufficient
    interest. 

    Coincidentally, I've just taken on a job that will tax my short
    attention span a bit, since I'm building up inventory for a "boutique
    show" next month, and I _have_ to make a bunch of similar pieces,
    even though I'm not into mass-production.  My likeliest seller is
    going to be some relatively inexpensive earrings, and I'm trying
    really hard to make a lot of them, but I just can't bring myself to
    make more than a pair or two before I'm haring off on another
    experimental piece or trying a different way to do the same thing.  I
    know I'd be better off, as far as efficiency goes, if I just buckled
    down and made a couple of dozen of the darned things, but it would be
    _boring_, beautiful as they might individually be. 

    Anyway, over twenty years of doing jewelry, off and on, and a
    lifetime of fiddling with all sorts of intricate junk, I've never
    really lost the joy of mastering complexity or creating beauty, and I
    expect to keep it going for a long time. 

Have fun!
Loren
http://www.golden-knots.com/

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