Sometimes you have a plan when you craft. I am making X using these supplies and these tools. Sometimes it is more like I want to make X so lets see what happens when I make it with this and with these other things and then decided which I like better. The above - overexposed but still kind of neat picture - was one of those times. I am making crochet stitch markers and having a blast. Each is a bit different - gauge, color, size, beading etc. - but I am playing and having fun. I also put together some earrings playing with color and shimmer. The hammer - for making slightly threatening statements - oh yeah and for hardening and shaping the markers. I am channeling my inner barbarian blacksmith here in the studio. The bowl was made by my eldest son a few years ago, he is turning into quite the potter.
Sometimes the best plans just run away with themselves and don't do what you want. I love this choker necklace, except it does not lay right. So soon I will have to disassemble it and rebuild it slightly differently. This time with more math and less random. That growling is me.
And sometimes, a rare beautiful sometimes... you are doing something else entirely and poof that magical elusive thing inspiration attacks you. I was actually organizing the box and drawer I keep my beads and such in, when I found the pendant stone in the upper right. Followed by the gold pearls and copper wire... wire crochet here we come. I kept finding bits that would look great with them so I will listen and build the necklace.
Hope you are following or ignoring your plan as best fits your day! ~ Julia
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