I cannot remember how long I've been making jewellery. Certainly I started when I was a kid, just threading beads at first and then I would get big old craft sets for Christmas and spend ages with beads and the washers that my Mother would collect from the factory she worked in.
When I was a teenager and discovered punk, goth and other alternative means of self-expression I found that living in a Northern seaside resort made it difficult to get the kind of clothing, jewellery and accessories that I wanted, so I began making things more in earnest. I loved to have things that nobody else had, I still do. There's something about owning a completely unique item that you just cannot get from pieces bought in a department store.
Now when I make something it sparks all kinds of ideas for other things and I have reached the point where I make so many things that I have had to listen to the people telling me I should open a store and sell them. Whilst it can be difficult to let go of something that I've spent time and energy over, that I've probably sworn at and injured myself in the process of making (I swear, I am the queen of the freak accident), I am learning to do so. There are things I've listed that I've been shouting "Noooooooooo" in my head at while writing out the description, but my loss is tempered by the fact that I can send little pieces of myself all over the world, and that other people can have the lovely feeling that comes with owning something that nobody else in the world has or can have.
I hope you like my jewellery as much as I liked making it.
TTFN
When I was a teenager and discovered punk, goth and other alternative means of self-expression I found that living in a Northern seaside resort made it difficult to get the kind of clothing, jewellery and accessories that I wanted, so I began making things more in earnest. I loved to have things that nobody else had, I still do. There's something about owning a completely unique item that you just cannot get from pieces bought in a department store.
Now when I make something it sparks all kinds of ideas for other things and I have reached the point where I make so many things that I have had to listen to the people telling me I should open a store and sell them. Whilst it can be difficult to let go of something that I've spent time and energy over, that I've probably sworn at and injured myself in the process of making (I swear, I am the queen of the freak accident), I am learning to do so. There are things I've listed that I've been shouting "Noooooooooo" in my head at while writing out the description, but my loss is tempered by the fact that I can send little pieces of myself all over the world, and that other people can have the lovely feeling that comes with owning something that nobody else in the world has or can have.
I hope you like my jewellery as much as I liked making it.
TTFN