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If you’re thinking about taking up the rewarding and creative process of making jewellery, be it beading or goldsmithing, for fun or to sell, you may want to brace yourself for some changes in behaviour from some of your friends and family. Perhaps you aren’t a maker, but you have friends who are, well, it’s wise to make sure that you don’t make these assumptions and vex your creative friends! The interest people take when you start making jewellery is always well meaning but sometimes a bit misguided, so it pays to be ready with a suitably considered polite (or wittily pithy) response. I’m not going to suggest the exit strategies, as that depends on your own loved ones, but here are 5 vexations I’ve come across, so read on and prepare yourself. 1. “Can you make me a…?” Some people expect you to be able to create anything, all of a sudden, using any technique or material. Folk don’t realise that making jewellery is a very broad discipline, with a lot of very different skills, and it can take a long time to build those skills up.
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Age shouldn't define you. You can keep reinventing or refining yourself. Now, think that, but with old jewellery turned into new! Fast fashion is a big topic these days, with items often made from poor materials, and intended to be pretty much disposed of after they fall from style. So how about new jewellery in new styles, created from old and unwanted beads, alongside new parts? That's a good way to get your fashion fix, and know that you've helped the world in a small way.
How about wearing jewellery where you'll proudly give renewed life to old beads, mixed alongside new? A little contemporary design blended with some ancient influences, eco-friendly choices in styles you'll find so many ways to wear - The Renewed range launches two weeks from today on June 5th 2021, and gives you all that in a variety of designs!
I have been so excited working on this range, as over the years Perfidious Jewellery has often mixed in parts from old and unwanted jewellery, so after I was sent an old necklace by Samm Designs as part of #doesanyonewant, making a range fully based around renewing old beads really fired my creative juices. It's a shame to see something broken or deemed unfashionable go to waste, when stripped down, cleaned and contemplated, those beads or pendants or chains can be worked into something loved, worn and useful again. It's a great design challenge for me too, as instead of having an idea and then sourcing the parts, I'm inspired by the beads themselves, what's passed to me by other people, or picked up second hand when it otherwise can't be sold as in good condition, gets mixed in with other old parts, new parts, sometimes new parts bought specifically to help make those old beads really sing! Don't miss the launch, join the newsletter gang, and get a welcome discount too! You're almost in the Gang now!Check your emails (perhaps in dastardly spam or junk) to confirm your email address, and then be sure to make use of your welcome discount!
Please show me some love in the comments below, so I know I'm not mad loving this idea - Does a piece catch your eye, do you do the same when making things, would you love to see more people do this?
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