Odd sources of inspiration
Posted by Leah on May 15, 2006
A couple weeks ago I got a really weird idea for a pendant. My thought process was basically, “so many people are making those circle pendants, but all they are is a fused or soldered jump ring, and that’s really boring. Wouldn’t it be funny to melt a bunch of my silver scrap into a circle shape and call it a fused jump ring instead of a circle pendant?”
Really random things sometimes spark an idea, and in this case, I’m really glad I decided to make the piece - in spite of the fact that it really isn’t funny at all. I ended up with a really interesting version of a circle pendant that’s nothing like the simple rings everyone is wearing on chains around their necks these days.
A couple months ago I found some really interesting rocks with holes in them. I don’t know how the holes got there, but there were a bunch of these rocks at the beach, and I took a few home and have been wearing them as pendants. It’s even simpler than the circle pendants - a plain old rock - but sometimes thinking of an object in a different way is all it takes to be a little creative.
