Titles - Naming Your Pieces - How Do You Do It ?

I find it hard to come up with a title to these posts.  Sometimes as I write, something will come to me.  Rarely does anything pop into my brain in the beginning.  Like now.   :)  I usually know the subject I'm going to blog about but never the title.  I wonder if writers of books and articles do the same or have problems coming up with titles ? 

As a lampwork bead maker, jewelry designer, etc, etc, I have never had luck coming up with names/titles to my pieces.   I sort of envy those that the titles/names just seem to flow off their tongues.  lol !  Does it really work that way for those folks ?  I even tried a baby book of names.  A couple of times I got paint color sample cards from the local paint store to see if THAT would spark something in my brain to make it easier.  Nope.  lol !  Eventually I just gave up.  If, and that's a BIG if, something pops in my head at the time I post the photo wherever that might be, then I put it up with the photo.  That is a VERY rare occasion to be sure.  lol !  So, on that note, here's what I did all this past week or so.  Enjoy.

I ended up doing 2 beaded Kumihimo necklaces for the focal piece shown below.  I couldn't decide between the two which looked best.  They're basically the exact same pattern and same seed beads HOWEVER one color was changed.  The one on the left has silver beads and the one on the right has gold beads.  All the rest of the beads are the same colors.  I've pretty much decided on the one on the left.  The one with gold beads actually looks perfect with another pendant I've had for many years !  lol !   Hopefully both pieces will be finished up by today.  :)  And yes, that pendant is a shell with artwork added to it !  This artist is on Etsy and this is her shop link  Sculpted Windows  Tell her Debbie sent you. 

  
I finished another beaded Kumihimo necklace before the one above.  Gotta say, I STILL can't make up my mind if I'm going to keep it or sell it.  lol !  I LOVE LOVE LOVE this little dragon !  Something about her just calls to me.  I have more coming because of her.  lol ! The artist gave no name in particular so I hope to come up with something - someday.  lol !  

                                

I had one more project I worked on last week and will be continuing that project into this week so will blog about that next time hopefully.  :) 

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Never Say Never

It never stays that way.  lol !  Especially for me when it comes to making jewelry.  More than a  few times I've said I will never make jewelry again !  I always seem to come back to it.  I make beads, I have TONS of jewelry making componets, TONS of all sorts of beads to make jewelry with and the tools to do it.  So yep, the saying is so true - Never, say never.  lol !  


The pollen count is ridiculously high - it set records here this past week topping out at OVER 9,000 one day !  A number that has NEVER been reached before in RECORDED history.  Because of that, I am unable to torch for now.  I needed to do something with some of these jumbo blown beads I've made so back to making some jewelry.  It gives me something to do plus it's fun playing with them.  I promised a friend of mine I'd make her a necklace out of some of these jumbo beads.  Something to go with jeans and a tee shirt she said.  I had every intention of making her some special beads however it hadn't come to light just yet.  The colors she wanted were giving me some trouble for some reason.  I still had every intention of making that necklace I just wanted the beads to be perfectly round.  In the meantime, as I was putting together these necklaces for fun, I sent her a picture of one I had made with beads that I felt weren't so perfect but weren't bad either.  I kinda liked the shapes of them.  She loved it and it's now in her hands.  Nice.  I'm very happy my friend will get to wear this necklace.  I love how it turned out.  

   




I hope she enjoys wearing this for many years to come.  :)




I've been really having fun making these necklaces.  I have taken two of them apart already to make more.  lol !  I took them apart simply because they were just practice necklaces.  Just to see if using these jumbo beads in a wearable piece of jewelry worked.  It did and so I will keep playing.  :) 


The one thing I've found about using these jumbo beads in jewelry - for myself, I don't want to take away from the focal point of the necklace which is the jumbo beads.  The accent componets need to compliment those big beads, not draw the eye away from them.  So far, the necklaces I've made are simple in construction which does that.  


That said, the next necklace you see below - over the top !  lol !  Does not adhere to that statement at all and yet it all seems to go together quite well.  lol ! 

  
  This one was a practice piece to see how well all these beads worked together and I think they do.  Because I used only one jumbo bead I was able to go a little overboard with the rest.  lol !  The sparkle and shine of all those silver beads just do not show thru in this picture though.  LOTS and LOTS of that in this piece.  lol !   












Many more pieces to come in the days, weeks ahead until that day comes I can get back to the torch again.  I hope within the next few weeks.  :)  


Until next time, thanks so much for coming by to visit.  Please come back again to see what's happening.  And please leave a comment.  I love to read them.  :)