﻿{"id":198,"date":"2009-12-09T12:50:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T17:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsjewelry.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/?p=198"},"modified":"2009-12-09T12:50:24","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T17:50:24","slug":"design-ideas-where-do-they-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/nsjewelry\/design-ideas-where-do-they-come-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Ideas &#8211; Where Do They Come From?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Design ideas, where do ideas come from? Good question. I have been pondering this question, in an attempt to analyze my own creative process. If, I can better understand myself, maybe, I can foster a better atmosphere for my creativity. Find a way to channel, and multiply my own creativity. Did that make any sense?<\/p>\n<p>Some ideas come from a need to revise an older design. The design was good, but the process was too expensive. For example, my clear resin bangles, take weeks to make. By the time I factor in my time, with a reasonable hourly wage, the price is too high, for the average consumer to justify. I still make and sell these bangle bracelets, but, only on special order.<\/p>\n<p>Some ideas, just come to life, out of a lump of clay. There you are, kneading the clay, getting it ready to work with, and out pops a design. If you are paying attention, you catch it, before it is lost. For example, my Table Coral Ring Design. It&#8217;s magical, the way this type of design happens. It&#8217;s perfect, the first time, and needs no changing or refining.<\/p>\n<p>Some ideas come from a friend&#8217;s suggestion. Could you make this, but with a few changes? For example, my turquoise cross sculptures. One my gallery owner buddies, saw a small turquoise cross sculpture I was wearing, as a necklace, and asked if I could make the same thing, only larger, wall-sized larger.  These have turned out to be good sellers. I have sold every one I&#8217;ve made, with requests for more.<\/p>\n<p>Most of my jewelry designs come to me early in the morning, before I am even out of bed. Funny, I don&#8217;t remember dreaming about anything. But, there it is, this design vision, and I haven&#8217;t even had my first cup of coffee. This is an exciting reason to get out of bed and start the day, and a good reason to keep a notebook handy.<\/p>\n<p>Some ideas just seem to multiply from another design. My current mermaid bracelet design, became a series this way. The first design, leads to multiple variations on the same theme. So far, I have a list of 6 new designs for this current bracelet. The second design of this series, is the one for which, I will demonstrate the sculpting process.  <\/p>\n<p>Next &#8211; Sculpting a Mermaid Bracelet Master &#8211; My Favorite Sculpting Media <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Design ideas, where do ideas come from? Good question. I have been pondering this question, in an attempt to analyze my own creative process. If, I can better understand myself, maybe, I can foster a better atmosphere for my creativity. Find a way to channel, and multiply my own creativity. Did that make any sense? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/nsjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/nsjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/nsjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/nsjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/nsjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/nsjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/nsjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/nsjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/nsjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}