Bits and Pieces

A few of the disparate pieces that are part of the design process....

I sat down to make the top to an olivine ellipse earring.....somehow I didn't see when I added the fuchsia 2 mm crystals that I was making a Christmas wreath. If it were Christmas time and I had wanted a wreath this might have been perfect, but it definitely was not the look I was after....



The odd bits get added to the odd bit bowl and sometimes they will be pressed into action for later development. Or sometimes testing....The ellipse was a piece added to the bowl some years ago. As I went to write instructions for Lilliana I needed to experiment on the best way to illustrate the embellishment row...

The odd colored teal and raspberry was made when I was in Australia last year .....perhaps someday it will be made into something, and the mauve oval is a bezel I was playing with in cubic raw.....it has possibilities.



All in all these bits are a necessary part of the design process but occasionally as in the weekend it felt like wasted beading time as none really progressed into the desired finished project. I think it might be a character flaw that I want to sit down and make something, start to finish, no false starts, no wasted time, no unfinished bits. It's a little unrealistic actually, but still I persevere in that expectation.

Do you have an odd bits bowl that you revisit?