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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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