Post by caeterle on Sept 6, 2019 22:26:50 GMT -6
I thought we could collect topic and other suggestions around blogging here, then we have something when we start all fresh in January 2020.
If you have a topic, just reply to this thread and one of us will edit it into this post, so we'll have a list.
Topic suggestions
Most difficult (but completed) jewelry piece
Serendipity in jewelry making
How your craft/skills/designs have evolved
Favorite things about making jewelry
Least liked things about making jewelry
Your studio: neat or chaos?
Expanding on one of our current threads: Storing completed jewelry and storing materials
Following trends/incorporating them into our designs
Favorite type of jewelry to make/least favorite
a color palette challenge
create a piece inspired by the same book, picture, time period/style or element
review a favorite (jewelry-related) book
Jewelry sets - yay or nay and why
A review of selling venues we have personally attempted
Favorite sources of supplies
A glimpse into other cultures' jewelry traditions (for example bead or wire work from Eastern Europe, Native American or African beadwork, Ukrainian wirework etc. <- this was the suggestion of a long time member who has exchanged jewelry making for card making eventually)
And from the old list (I deleted that thread now)
Finish a WIP
Obsession with a design
Bead show experiences in general
Self promotion
The first jewelry item we made
The techniques we use and why
Topics already done between 2015 and 2021
Using social media
Theme jewelry
Comfort zones
Spring cleaning
Creative block
Year end reflections
Decades
Samhain/Halloween/Dia de los Muertos
What's on my workbench?
How I develop my designs
Where do I go for inspiration?
Love
A new technique
Improve your shop
Color challenge - Orange
Mother's Day
Plans for the new year
Rainy days
From summer to fall
Show your stash
Movement
Spring plans
Rip it up
Favorite materials to work with and why
Time management and motivation
Project of my dreams
Shapes
Favorite piece/s of jewelry
One of a kind vs. repeating a design
Creating for charity
Competing in a mass produced world or Mass Produced vs Hand Crafted
Bead store stories/experiences
Favorite Tools/Tools we Use/Something to do with tools!
2016 challenge wrap up
You know you are a jewelry artist when ...
What we would like to try this year
Artist collaborations
Other crafts or what we do beside jewelry making
Favorite pieces made and why
Tutorials
Review a favorite product
Photography
Selling vs creating; do we sacrifice our artistic integrity by selling?
Holiday jewelry - do you make it?
Choosing colors
Learning new techniques and/or new materials (Kind of done via the challenge )
Technique fails
If you have a topic, just reply to this thread and one of us will edit it into this post, so we'll have a list.
Topic suggestions
Most difficult (but completed) jewelry piece
Serendipity in jewelry making
How your craft/skills/designs have evolved
Favorite things about making jewelry
Least liked things about making jewelry
Your studio: neat or chaos?
Expanding on one of our current threads: Storing completed jewelry and storing materials
Following trends/incorporating them into our designs
Favorite type of jewelry to make/least favorite
a color palette challenge
create a piece inspired by the same book, picture, time period/style or element
review a favorite (jewelry-related) book
Jewelry sets - yay or nay and why
A review of selling venues we have personally attempted
Favorite sources of supplies
A glimpse into other cultures' jewelry traditions (for example bead or wire work from Eastern Europe, Native American or African beadwork, Ukrainian wirework etc. <- this was the suggestion of a long time member who has exchanged jewelry making for card making eventually)
And from the old list (I deleted that thread now)
Finish a WIP
Obsession with a design
Bead show experiences in general
Self promotion
The first jewelry item we made
The techniques we use and why
Topics already done between 2015 and 2021
Using social media
Theme jewelry
Comfort zones
Spring cleaning
Creative block
Year end reflections
Decades
Samhain/Halloween/Dia de los Muertos
What's on my workbench?
How I develop my designs
Where do I go for inspiration?
Love
A new technique
Improve your shop
Color challenge - Orange
Mother's Day
Plans for the new year
Rainy days
From summer to fall
Show your stash
Movement
Spring plans
Rip it up
Favorite materials to work with and why
Time management and motivation
Project of my dreams
Shapes
Favorite piece/s of jewelry
One of a kind vs. repeating a design
Creating for charity
Competing in a mass produced world or Mass Produced vs Hand Crafted
Bead store stories/experiences
Favorite Tools/Tools we Use/Something to do with tools!
2016 challenge wrap up
You know you are a jewelry artist when ...
What we would like to try this year
Artist collaborations
Other crafts or what we do beside jewelry making
Favorite pieces made and why
Tutorials
Review a favorite product
Photography
Selling vs creating; do we sacrifice our artistic integrity by selling?
Holiday jewelry - do you make it?
Choosing colors
Learning new techniques and/or new materials (Kind of done via the challenge )
Technique fails