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posted by Colleen Shirazi,
August 21, 2007
at 11:57 AM (Pacific)
I already redid the aquamarine earrings. lol! I wore the prototype all day; at the end of the day, they started feeling heavy.
It's funny, I've gotten to be very critical of jewelry. There was an enormous burst of people doing it in the U.S. a while back...people like me, who aren't "crafty," much less involved with any professional jewelry making outfit. It's been difficult, frankly...there's a lot to it. I feel the people making it now, out of that burst, have become pickier, better...
From the beginning I figured it would take two or three years to figure it out. Now I think it takes the full three years. From reading jewelry making forums, I did observe the people who made the designs I liked, had been doing it for many years.
I'm trying now to work with better materials. Again, it's interesting...once you want to move beyond the more ordinary level of materials, you're working with an entirely different group of suppliers. They're much harder to find. The newer suppliers--the ones who got in at the same time as the initial burst of jewelry makers--are much more Net-savvy than the old suppliers, the ones who provide the better materials. Hence the cheaper materials are easier to find.
I'm not worried...I never was. If you're talking about a three-year project, it's a three-year project. You start at the beginning, keep going... My ultimate goal of course is to sell jewelry (isn't everyone's?) but my shorter-range goal is to make my own jewelry, to not be at the mercy of the jewelry market.
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