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Posted by Colleen Shirazi, Monday, September 26, 2005 8:31 PM (Eastern)
Bwahahahaha...why didn't I think of making my own jewelry sooner??? I am now wearing my first bracelet that I made for myself (I've made several for my daughter of course).
It's a blend of Asian taste (curiously, Caucasian Asian Americans tend to produce more Asian looking designs, where Asian Asian Americans imo tend to produce more Western-looking pieces...jmho)...and something slightly reminiscent of a vintage store. i.e. it's comprised of red vintage glass beads, two porcelain Chinese beads, and a drop...which is Chinese also, it's clear glass with an inner design of a pink flower.
Now I understand why handmade jewelry should be expensive. It's not the materials. It's the time. I've redone this same piece at least six times if not more. It has to be perfect, not in the sense of lying there and looking good, but in the sense of, you put it on. You wear it. How does it hang? Does it look awkward, do the red beads stick out, or does it flow smoothly around your wrist? What about spacer beads? I tried out at least four kinds. I ended up with tiny cracked glass round beads and plain glass seed beads. If you use only the seed beads, the piece will look cheap. Yet the cracked glass beads are too expensive to use only those.
Then, what about the drop? How many drops to use? I have four of them, I ended up using only the one. Does the drop knock against the table when you have it on?
Once you put the piece on, does the "good side" gravitate toward the top of your wrist? Or does it gravitate at all?
I made this piece specifically to match a bangle I already own. How cool is that????? The bangle is carved sterling silver with an oval garnet cabochon in it. I'll guess it was made in Thailand, possibly India.
The vintage store part...that is personal to me. I once owned a necklace that I got from a vintage store (only they called them thrift stores back then, lol)...it had these milky glass irregularly-shaped beads in it. These red beads I have, posess that slight irregularity too. Each one is subtly different.
I'm just inordinately pleased with the darn thing.
Yes, I am still planning on making jewelry to sell. I've gone out of the materials and technique phase. Now I'm in the design phase, which is more fun but just as lengthy.
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