It is a question I get asked rather a lot.
If I said that I swan about draping myself in silk, eating grapes and spending many hours in Paperchase, it'd only be half true.
Much of the time I'm doing internet type things, plus making lists, painting, strategising, sourcing materials, doing hard things with numbers. Generally working towards launching my business [and my Etsy shop]in the late spring. But occassionally I get to create. And at the moment I'm in a glorious flurry of vintage jewellery assemblage. Well, a girl needs something to sell if she wants a real shop...
These photos are taken looking up through the current chaos on my perspex desk- a 'knee's eye view' of my creative process, if you will. Pliers in hand, I set about transforming broken heirlooms into, well, future heirlooms. It is actually 80% designing [fiddling with pretty stuff], 20% assembling. I've got 30 million projects on the go-they look like piles of beads and chains to anyone else-to me they are potential one-of-a-kind creations. Now and then I actually latch on to one and see it through to completion. And then my unique upcycled vintage triumph ends up in my Etsy shop. If I can bear to let it go, that is. And in goes another grape.
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