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Once the beads are annealed in the kiln (see my previous posts) they are ready to incorporate into jewelry.\u00a0 Thus begins the process of design.\u00a0 I am constantly seeing design all around me.\u00a0 I take pictures with my cell phone, or on my camera.\u00a0 I grab a pen and paper and sketch out a design.\u00a0 Sometimes a design comes from something I see someone else wear.\u00a0 Maybe on a TV show or walking down the street.\u00a0 Sometimes I find a picture in a magazine I clip out.\u00a0 Sometimes designs just pop into my head, from trees or nature.\u00a0 I have even dreamed designs.<\/h2>\n

I take all the sketches, photos and magazine pics that I collect, and scan them into my computer.\u00a0 I save them in pdf format.\u00a0 I place all ideas in a folder I call ‘sketch pad ideas.’\u00a0 Then I break them down into two categories.\u00a0 The first is ‘Others Ideas’ the second is ‘My Ideas’.\u00a0 I sign and date all my original sketches and write notes on the sketch.\u00a0 Others ideas I do not sign, but still date them and write notes on them.\u00a0 That way when I start looking for ideas I will remember when and where I saw the idea.\u00a0 I never steal someone’s design, but I use others ideas as a launching pad to stimulate my mind.\u00a0 The collection of sketch pad ideas are just that, ideas.\u00a0 A place to start.\u00a0 I look at someone’s piece of jewelry and think, how can I change that and make it my own unique piece of jewelry.<\/h2>\n

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The drawing above was an idea I had for a necklace for a birthday present for my Daughter, Becky in December 2005.\u00a0 It was drawn on my computer in Paint program.\u00a0 Since then I have a computer program called Bamboo.\u00a0 (My Son’s family gave me Bamboo for Christmas in 2008.)\u00a0 It is a drawing tablet that looks like a mouse pad, and the mouse looks like a fat ink pen.\u00a0 You draw with the mouse\/pen on the tablet just like on a sketch pad, which draws right on the computer screen.\u00a0 I love the Bamboo sketch pad.<\/h2>\n

This necklace was designed around the small Topaz gems.\u00a0 I purchased them then had to design a necklace that would fit the small Topaz without overpowering them.\u00a0 Thus the making of the very small clear glass beads.<\/h2>\n

Below is the finished necklace which has 6 of my handmade beads.\u00a0 They are small, clear, wrapped in dichrioc glass and it has 5 Mystic Topaz gems, with a Sterling Silver clasp.\u00a0 Topaz is the Nov birthstone, my daughter’s birthstone.<\/h2>\n
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The closeup shows the small hand made beads.\u00a0 They are about 5 millimeters, and the Mystic Topaz are about 8 millimeters.\u00a0 I hope this blog post gets your design juices to start flowing or at least gives you some insight into my mind and how I come up with a design for a piece of jewelry.\u00a0 Christina<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once the beads are annealed in the kiln (see my previous posts) they are ready to incorporate into jewelry.\u00a0 Thus begins the process of design.\u00a0 I am constantly seeing design all around me.\u00a0 I take pictures with my cell phone, or on my camera.\u00a0 I grab a pen and paper and sketch out a design.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[380,377,58,381,55,57,60,59,61,56,54],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6BWVc-ce","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":757,"url":"http:\/\/christinamleedesigns.com\/?p=757","url_meta":{"origin":758,"position":0},"title":"Making Glass Beads, Part 2","author":"Christina","date":"November 19, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"After I make the beads, I put them in my kiln and fire them.\u00a0 The process is called annealing.\u00a0 It strengthens the glass so the bead will not crack and break.\u00a0 The glass has gone through severe thermal shock in the making of the bead, starting with the glass at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "annealing"","block_context":{"text":"annealing","link":"http:\/\/christinamleedesigns.com\/?cat=52"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_xP4BSzb-7Wg\/TOX_ua5HRII\/AAAAAAAAAAk\/ERg8l8zCN18\/s320\/P1010017.JPG?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":937,"url":"http:\/\/christinamleedesigns.com\/?p=937","url_meta":{"origin":758,"position":1},"title":"Upcoming Blogs","author":"Christina","date":"August 30, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"In the next few weeks I will post some blogs about free form design, i.e. designing a necklace or bracelet when you have not drawn out a sketch in advance.\u00a0 As in the pic below. 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