Rambling Girl

Sometimes it's fun to imagine what people's beads or jewellery reflect about them.

Imagine the lampworker who does immaculate, complex stringer work. Or the ceramics artist who forms organic, fluid pieces full of imperfections. The person who sculpts birds and flowers from polymer clay. You'd come away with different impressions of them all based on the work they produce.

What's even more interesting though, is that the artistic impression is sometimes *miles* removed from their real personality. It's as though what comes out in their work is what they can't/won't/don't want to convey in other parts of their lives.

And because every post is better with things to look at too, here's something fun I've been doing (admittedly, my definition of fun has toned-down a lot over the years *G*) For the FHFTeam event I wanted to make something funky to show of prizes, so I wandered around Picassa for a while and (Photoshop for people who can't afford Photoshop/didn't get it free on their computer, dammit), and played with the 'Collage' function; the result was that I've been playing with making a pretend catalogue for my beads, of the sort you can download from on-line bead shops:

For some reason, grouping a lot of pictures all together in one place makes them look a tiny bit better than before. Yay.