[Jewelry making - Article 00637] - Re: [Orchid] Wearing your jewelry creations

[juliette arda]

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Bonjour Helen,

>     Do most people on Orchid wear their creations or not? I'd be
>     interested to know if others have an opposing view. 

    I do wear my work. 

    But, so to say, I don't wear jewellery. 

    I just don't think of the pieces I wear as jewellery, they are part
    of me. I live, sleep, bath... with them on and never remove them. I
    simply don't think of wearing other jewels. 

    I have my wedding ring plus plus one of my first labradorite ring
    (on the same finger) and a thin black ribbon around the neck with two
    pendents knotted on it. On an other ribbon, I have the most precious
    piece to me and the only I didn't make : a tiny antique silver
    pendant my brother gave me when we were kids.. 

    Occasionnally, I wear is one of my diploma's collection necklace.
    These pieces all have a strong meanning to me. 

    I do also wear my experiments, for a week or so, but it is part of
    the "design process". I check if it is comfortable and I listen to
    people's comments... 

    I am proud of my work but I can't see it as some sort of
    advertising, it sounds so "cold" to me. Maybe I am too much
    emotionnally linked to my work... (... I could remove the maybe in
    this sentence... hehehe). If it actually advertise my work, that's
    great ! but it not a purpose. 

Juliette Arda
Artiste-Bijoutiere
Aix en Provence, France
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