why

[MuranoSilver]

Lol you two - poor Jasons only just arrived and you're already
trying to pinch his "preciousssesssss"


nic xx

[Coco]

Hehe! It was worth a shot!

[bustagasket]

dont you go bottling out on me already coco, i just got the balaclavas finished!!

[Coco]

Are they bejeweled balaclavas?

[myke]

with all due respect don't you think this thread has lost it's way? we should stick to the premise of the thread.I love a good discussion but lets stay on the point. Any body that jumps to the last page would not have a clue why it was titled why.

[SilverByRosie]

's to all those with losses.

I got into jewellery making because I'm allergic to nickel and got fed up with not being able to wear most of the jewellery you can buy on the high street. Over the past six months or so, my earring collection has tripled!

~Rosie

[myke]

Thank you thank you

[Coco]

I started making jewellery coz all my attempts at being a jewel thief got thwarted





NB: This may not be altogether true

[bustagasket]

ROFLMAO you ninny :P (have another go - dont forget we got rubies and sapphires to erm.....acquire from someone shhhhhh)

[Petal]

Myke, my heart goes out to you. Then losing your business and dealing with the bereavement you have had. Its such a shame.

Perhaps we are all drawn to doing something creative, because it keeps our minds active and busy and not thinking about other, more difficult, things?

Making things helps with my depression (as others have found) - the grey fog that appears when you wake up and sometimes doesn't shift! I've learnt to manage it by going out on my bike in the morning for 5 miles(that's my journey to 'work'), it gives me an enormously positive feeling that lasts all day, then I get back home, ready and get to it! The other thing that works for me is having 10 minute breaks - that helps with focus. If I'm stuck on a design and can't seem to get it right, I have a break, weed my veg patch and come back to my piece of 'jewellery-to-be'.

I started out knitting in my spare time, got into weaving willow baskets (which I loved - but played havoc with my wrists!), moved onto stringing beads as a hobby and started selling to friends/neighbours etc . I love being creative and making something, and hope others like the pieces enough to buy them. I don't do it entirely for the money and still have to get my pricing right, but I'd rather have less and not have to deal with the stress and bullying at work that I had for years - -X I've had enough of that stuff to last me a lifetime and so have an awful lot of other people I know. Some of them have had major diseases as a result of years of stress and are no longer around to tell their story.


Apologies for the waffle..


Jules
A a day keeps the Doctor away