Making Jewelry Versus Wearing Jewelry?
Tuesday June 23, 2009
Is it true that we like to wear what we like to make when it comes to jewelry designing? Take these two polls on what you like to make versus what you like to wear.
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Okay, here’s the thing. I don’t wear jewelry. (You didn’t have that as an option.
Very rarely, I might wear a necklace. But I do enjoy the challenge of taking pottery shards (aka trash) and making them into pendants. I’ve got several very specific shards waiting for me to work on them, creating necklaces for specific people for Christmas…. I’ve just gotten a couple of bead rollers and a bead tree (for firing ceramic beads) in and am rarin’ to try them out, too. 
Hah, same here. I USED to wear jewelry until I started making it, and now I don’t want to wear it anymore, except a watch and the promise ring my boyfriend gave me. Ironically, that’s the whole reason I started making jewelry, b/c I couldn’t find the kind of stuff I wanted to wear. Now I think it’s like a pizza chef who can’t eat pizza anymore. Day in, day out, pizza pizza pizza. I’d rather make jewelry and see someone else wear it than wear it myself.
I made an anklet for my wife, and became addicted to making jewlery in general but especially anklets, they can be so sexy. A lady at work mentioned she wanted an anklet, so I gave her one I had made and before you know it nearly every female there was wearing one. It was really cool.