...please stand by while I get my groove back! I had a day of my own to work on making jewellery...dream day turns into bad dream day! I kept wishing I would wake up and find out that it was really all a dream. I suspect that I just didn't know what to do with the time on my hands. My thoughts were all over the place and difficult to focus...which is not usually a problem. I decide to try making a Trinity ring (formerly known as the Russian wedding ring)and flush setting stones in all of the bands. I set everything up...I'm organized and ready to just roll out the project. It went great in the beginning...even the middle was not so bad but after polishing the bands I tried fitting the stones into the ring and well.....it didn't go so well. Do I stop and take a break...nope I keep trying. I'm getting stressed that I can't do something that seemed fairly simple to me in the past. My shoulders are up around my ears and my back is screaming...because I refuse to leave my bench until I get it. Sanity finally returned...well some of it and I put everything into a container and put it away but that was after struggling for almost two days!
Please tell me that I'm not alone. It's just one of those times when I wonder...what the heck do I think I'm doing?!? No answer but I did very wisely...in my opinion...decide that perhaps it's time for another project. I keep looking at all my lovely treasures from our beaches holiday hoping that I'll think of something fantastic to do with them. But other than airing them out on the porch to get rid of the ocean smell that was so great when we were at the beach...go figure. I've discovered that I'm not the only one that hoards thinking that whatever I make with "it" must be very special...I need just the right project. I'm going to work very hard on changing that thought process. It is too limiting otherwise and soon the special items take over the ones we are willing to work with which means that creativity comes to a halt because nothing is special enough.
I treat this blog the same way...it has to be something really great to write about or I won't write which is silly. So I'm going to try to take the time at least once a week...maybe more to sit and write about some great tool that I've discovered or maybe just some little thing that I found. In any event it won't be perfect...I know...just when you'd come to expect nothing but the best from this blog. :-)
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Nope, you're not alone in the hoarding department!! I haven't shown you my special 'hoard' have I? Mind you after all the time I've been into making jewelry, the hoard has become smaller and smaller as my skills get better and better and I actually use some of those special items. But I still have a big bag of South Sea mabe pearls and some gemstone carved cats that will never see the light of day at this rate! LOL And putting away the frustrating project is the right answer to getting past the brick wall you hit with it! Take it back out in a few days and you will feel recharged!!!
Anyway, *wave* from me - loving your blog, so keep writing!!
Gawd, hoard is my middle name. Shells, glass, seeds, beads....all will eventually be transformed into something beautiful, right?!
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