Gosh, I love
the title so much I’m not sure I want to fiddle with writing the rest of this
blog entry. But I will. So, it’s the
month of LUV, you know what with Valentine’s Day and All. Who do you love? What do you love? I sure know who and what I love. Thankfully my list is very long.
One of the
things that I love dearly is “making jewelry”.
I’ve been an artist all my life.
In fact I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t designing and/or making
things. I’ve experimented with all kinds
of mediums. But jewelry seems to be one
of my all-time favorites. Because every
time I sit down to create in my jewelry studio I get re-inspired all over
again. And I just love what comes out of
my head when I’m in that place (my studio). I love the process of trying to
figure out how to make a new type of connection or turn a metal a different
color. I love the challenge of trying
something that’s difficult and then practicing it over and over again until I
feel that I fully understand how to do it right more often than not. I like to refer to it as my “mad scientist”
frame of mind. But don’t worry. I’m not mad – just excited.
And I love
inventing a jewelry making process, technique, and/or design. Even if I find out later (after I came to it
on my own) that it’s been done before, I still feel really jazzed about having
realized it on my own, in my own way. In
fact, one of the most exciting things I do is come up with new ideas and new
ways of doing things in my studio. My
mica and resin earrings are a good example of that. The idea first came when I saw two shells and
the way they were laying in the sand propped up on one another. They were shimmery from the water and sun and
the whole assemblage looked like it could have been an earring. I mean if it was held together somehow, which
it was not. A wave proved that to be
true and in a quick moment it all soon fell apart. But the idea was already in my head. So next time I had a pad and paper handy I
doodled the idea and thought about what I could use to from my creation. I couldn’t wait to get into my studio and
start the “experiment”. I was so happy
with the way the earrings turned out and became obsessed with making more of
them. This is the practice that I love
so much. As I further develop and refine
an idea new ideas continue to come. And that’s something I truly love.
But you know
what else I truly love: Your support! Each and every person who has ever bought a
piece of my jewelry definitely makes it to my “A-list”. That support and encouragement really keeps
me going. Without it there would be little reason to
keep “mad scientist-ing” on a regular basis.
So, I just want to extend a big fat Thank You to everyone who wears my
jewelry! You keep me going and I just
can’t thank you enough!!!!
LUV,
Marcia
Mica & Resin Earrings
