I love ideas. I always have a lot of ideas forming around my head, and I can have a wide imagination that let me dreams of whatever way I can come up with, to play with my wires.

Though I never have problem coming up with new designs, but I always have problem getting them done. Most of the days, I am caught up with teaching (being there with my students) or at home writing tutorials, doing my online etsy and artfire, playing with new toys that let me become better with my wires, researching to come up with new skills, sorting out my consignment, and the list goes on.

This really leaves me little time to sit down and create. And I mean CREATE A LOT. I want to have a lot of designs and I wish I can go on a CREATE Retreat. No disturb, no internet, no class, no family, just me and my beads and just sit down and CREATE.

I am writing this thank you note for the friends I have whom have helped to make it happen, slowly. With a given dead line, I have to make it happen. I need to make it happen and I want to make it happen.

New Beads, new ideas and the job has to be done within a month. More than enough time for brain-storming, get the rest of my priority right, and also create this piece. As it can be anything, I even bother to go to the library to do research!!! So fun!!

Tribute to the above earring design, I turn my Cobra Ring design into this pair of earring. Same weave, same technique, but instead of forming it around a ring mandrel, I made it go around a Swarovski Crystals 6040 20mm pendant. Free form, no technique and its so much fun.

And this little treasure has found a new home too. :)

Cheers,

Izel Ang