I cleaned out my craft closet yesterday. I pulled out all of the paper goods I have been hording and put them in the kids craft area because I will never use up all that paper and all of those alphabet stickers in my lifetime. I tore apart of the unopened cross-stitch kits from my 1980's "country" phase and saved the fabric and needles and floss for projects I might actually want to do. I made giveaway piles of unopened little materials that no longer hold my interest. Everything had a use, a place or a new home.
Except for a huge box of crystal beads that has been sitting around since I realized I really don't enjoy making jewelry as much as I enjoy buying it off of Etsy. I decided that they were the perfect inspiration for a crazy art project.
My rule to myself was that I had to use them all! But after that there was no plan. Which worked out great because after the first string or two I questioned what the heck I was doing and I wondered if it was going to turn out to be a wearable piece of jewelry or a piece of crap. But I put those thoughts aside and just kept stringing because I needed to use all of the beads, no matter what!
It was really very meditative to string all of those beads. It was about a full 3 hours that I was alone with my beads and my thoughts. It was nice.
And I think my resulting jewelry piece is nice as well! Very earthy.
I liked this challenge of needing to create with an entire box of materials. I think I will have to do it again soon. Maybe with those 6 rolls of duct tape....
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