Jewelry Sketches

Along with my other reoccurring features, I have been wanting to get back into sketching.  Drawing used to be my passion, and I used to do a drawing or sketch almost everyday.  I have not done that in years, and looking back it kind of makes me sad.  I miss it!  The urge to draw has been crazy lately, and I have been doodling on my notes during class and bits of scratch paper, so I decided maybe I should force myself back into the habit of drawing.  I know drawing is not at all like riding a bike, if you don't use the skill, you can lose it, and revert back to a worse stage in your drawing 'history'.  So, I'm not saying my sketches are going to be anything good, I just want to start doing them.  I finally have a subject that  I will not get easily bored of drawing: Ideas for clothing and jewelry that I would like to create for myself!  So every Saturday I am going to post sketches of drawings and doodles that I have made throughout the week, so you can see some of my current inspirations.  Whether those ever actually translate into existing jewelry or clothes, who knows!?  But at least I will feel like on some level I am reconnecting with a part of myself that I feel like I am losing, and hopefully improve over time!

An Unexpected Gift

On Sunday, while spending time with my friend Farah, she presented me with a gift that I was not expecting, and I love it!  She gave me a book on creating jewelry with all types of buttons.  It is very adorable, and the jewelry shown in the book is so unique and creative, and the photography is amazing!  The buttons used in the book range in type from Victorian, to ceramic, and metal, as well as sea shell or mother of pearl.  I wanted to show some pages from the book that I found particularly interesting and inspiring!  I can't wait to make some jewelry using buttons now!  The funny thing is that I never would have thought to use buttons in this way, but now I desperately want to!  My grandmother has vast collections of vintage, beautiful buttons.  She used to let me dump out her gigantic popcorn tin of them on the floor and sift through them as a child.  I was always amazed by the variety of colors and shapes and styles of buttons that were contained in that tin.  Reading this book took me back to those moments, and made me feel nostalgic.  I can't wait until the next time I can visit my grandmother now to see if I can have some of them to make into beautiful jewelry like the pieces shown in this book.