[Jewelry making - Article 00153] - Re: [Orchid] Jeweler's former lives

[Mlou Brubaker]

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Daniel,

    I'm with you, or nearly so. I started making and selling jewelry
    while I was in my second year of college, studying to be in theater.
    I interned in a repertory theater, making stuff for them in the
    costume and prop shops. But I worked on jewelry at home, all night
    long sometimes. An actor asked me,"If you can do THIS (looking at my
    jewelry), why do you want to be in the theater?" Good point. I
    changed my college major to art, kept making jewelry, and stuck with
    it. It was a very poor living at first. I had to live in communal
    city apartment situations to get by. Just hand to mouth, with
    careful tool-buying mixed in. Moved to the country, in substandard
    housing at first. But you know a hard way of life can build
    character! Had to rev up the old Honda generator whenever I wanted to
    make my 1/4 horse motor go round & round for polishing. 

    I still live in the country, still make jewelry full time, as I have
    ever since graduating college with a B.A. in studio art. Now I have
    a lovely studio full of tools to play with. And electricity! I love
    my freedom. 

    My only foray into other employment was a 3-week stint decades ago in
    a silver repair shop in Chicago which took in flatware & hollowware
    from Marshall Field's department store and places like that. I got
    fired for putting up a "Women Working" sign and objecting when one of
    the bosses tore it up. Oops. Well, as a young person in high school I
    also had a waitress job once, and I got paid for some folk singing
    gigs, too, along the way. But I never did anything seriously besides
    jewelry and metal. 

    I guess I do like being able to say that, Daniel. Thanks. 

M'lou Brubaker, Jeweler
www.craftswomen.com
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