Just needed to vent. I had come up with what I thought was an incredibly wonderful, brilliant, clever, ORIGINAL idea. Now I see that someone else has done it way before me. And it's a weird enough thing that there is no way I can do it without it looking like I'm copying the other person. Poop.
Hi Tink , I just got your gorgeous bead today , Thank You !
I gotta say that we are not out here inventing the wheel , but we are here to put a new spin on it . I have ancient stuff , & have to say I've seen folks say , 2 or 3 thousand years later , that it was "their" idea !
You have to go with your creations , & your creativity , & you have to know that it is your special inventiveness that came up with it ! You go Girl !!
Love you , & your art ,
So what was your idea?
Jo Jo
Make what you want and weather the results, sweetness. It is the only way you are going to be truely happy.
Becki "In between the moon and you, the angels have a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right.." -- Counting Crows
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Tink" :
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how would your's look like hers, tho? wouldn't they be different? or you just don't want to use the idea?
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As I was moving last December, I found my collection of old skeleton keys. I made a couple of pendants that looked amazingly like the ones on Ki
Key jewelry was in 15 years ago - at least - that I can think of -- so the idea isn't exactly original to her either ! LOL
if you want to make key jewelry - do it - there's no patent, trademark or copyright issue involved... as long as yours are different... Remember - an "IDEA" cannot be copyrighted -- only the copying exactly of a design or original work.... then again - I didn't particularly find the piece appealing... LOL Cheryl of DRAGON BEADS Flameworked beads and glass
Tink - I am hearing a continuing thread here - (no pun intended.) Correct me if I'm wrong, but see if this sounds accurate: making beads / glass slinging = happiness happiness = guilt photographing, selling, shipping, etc = unhappiness
Now, if I have that correct, maybe you should run with that premise and ask yourself if it's really making sense to hang onto the control of the stuff you don't like to do? It's ok for you to do what you enjoy. Maybe, just maybe, there is someone close by who gets as much happiness out of the number crunching kind of selling busywork as you get out of melting stuff. It's really possible! I don't think you should have to be anything but happy, doing the work you like to do and, I might add, the work you are so good at and obviously suited for!
Just my opinion.
Live and be well, Christy
Why don't you go ahead and try it anyway? Individual differences being what they are, it might come out looking completely different.
I think key-based jewelry -could- be very appealing. I'd love to see what you were thinking of, Tink. And I can imagine giving it a whirl myself sometime.
Think about what strikingly different work the population of this list comes up with, when essentially we are all working with glass, metal and fibers most of the time. Some stone, some organic stuff, some ceramic. The medium isn't really the message until some -person- translates it through their own individual sensibility, is it?
Deirdre
That is a cool idea!
And it rhymes too! :) Sooz Effuse. :)
Come be me. I want a day off.
LOLOLOLOL Becki "In between the moon and you, the angels have a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right.." -- Counting Crows
Wow. This thread has given me LOTS of food for thought. Thanks to everyone for responding! I sure would love to find someone to do the selling and shipping, too. I'll have to give that idea some time to germinate.
Yes. I will do some keys. And I've gotten some other great ideas from thinking that over, too.
If I can stop playing with my puppy long enough to do ANYTHING, that is. LOL!
A day of playing with beads? Let me think this over... OK Di
I didn't like the way Ms. Ballor did it. It was overdesigned. (Knowing When To Stop -- again) All that wire and crap, and the bead wasn't the right color to go with the aged metal (lime green?>
yeah - twins separated at birth - that's us- my EXACT feelings about the piece! LOL Cheryl of DRAGON BEADS Flameworked beads and glass
Glad you two are enjoying each other so much!
Deirdre
Tink,
I was reading through a bunch of old posts (I have less than 1200 still not marked read yet, dating back to the first of July) and I ran across your post about key jewelry. I visited KIm Ballor's website to look at the key you mentioned (
i love that key....
I'll be sure to post here when I do something with them...
Ooooh.. please let us see? The idea of making functional things beautiful isnt new but I do love seeing new ways of doing it. Diana
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