Reflecting

So I think now is a good time to reflect. Maybe it is a natural thing as I enter into a whole new decade of existence on this earth, in this body. I was told today thanks for sharing my talent, in reference to my jewelry. Made me think back to how I got started and how jewelry was kind of an accidental creative adventure for me. I can blame, or thank my son for that. I was pregnant, big and uncomfortable, so playing guitar was getting more and more impossible. I didn't want to paint, because of very bad morning sickness... (all day and all night sickness?) the fumes would make me sick. So I wanted something creative to do, so I bought a few seed beads, some other things needed to make very basic jewelry, and a book... "Weaving without a loom." My early pieces were all beads and maybe a clasp to close it, sewn on. But I got hooked... I quickly advanced my beadwaving skills and started making some pieces that were really amazing... but the amount of work, I knew there was no real paycheck in it.
 Creativity was not new to me at all... I had been an artist and musician for years. I wrote music and poetry, painted, sculpted once in a while... anything creative I got my hands on. Beading quickly became my new obsession. But I never would have DREAMED I would become a METAL ARTIST! That all came one thing at a time and before I knew it I had a viable business, I was making important pieces for people. Custom orders, engagement rings, alternate wedding rings... all kinds of other things I never even knew were possible to make, let alone thought I would be making them. And now here I am 10 years later... still sucking up every bit of knowledge I can to improve and expand my ability and bag-o-skills for making jewelry. I still paint, I play music a lot more than I paint... but jewelry is definitely here to stay!

And now... what new blingy thing shall I give myself tomorrow as I enter into my next decade of life. :) Yeah turning 40 is not the most welcome thing, but it is not the worst... I feel like I learned a LOT over the last decade.... not only in jewelry, metalwork, stones, etc... but in life. And of course my son has been here for this decade... and he is a gift in himself. So even though I had some extremely hard years during this time, the joy deffinately shines brigher than the heartache and pain I suffered. And now that those lessons are learned, I look forward to what the next years will bring (well maybe not looking forward to more grey hair and lines on my face, but ANY WAY!)...