It had been weeks and I was stuck. Nothing really moved me to create. I was looking for my missing "muse". She seems to depart whenever the mood strikes her and I think she took a long vacation. "On a slow boat to China" is what my mom says when things are taking their time. My muse was on that boat and then hiked across Asia the wrong way to get back. Anyhoo...
I perused Etsy, I wandered around 1000Markets, I browsed my favorite online supply stores...to no avail. I paged through my supply catalogs, looked at beading magazines, went to supply stores...and still there was no creative spark.
Then Etsy Trends posted the Pantone colors for Spring 2009. Now of course these colors were posted back in September of last year when clothing designers were showing their collections. So I feel as if I found out the "color party" too late, but hey! Its still Spring, and it is 2009, I can still make jewelry that coordinates with the selected colors for this season. So I found my muse hanging out with Pantone.
I looked at what I had in stock that complemented the colors and then dug through my stash. I ordered what I was missing in beads and supplies and voila! I was back into creating and have been for the past several weeks. I haven't used every color in their Spring 2009 predictions, because quite frankly, I think a few are ugly. In further blog posts I will include items from my shops that coordinate with Pantone's finds.
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