Don't you love it when a plan comes together? Or when some lucky accident leads to what you can claim as a plan coming together? In my case it started with this bracelet:
Waiting for some custom order raku pieces to arrive, I made this bracelet playing around with some of the lighter colors in typical raku pieces. (I'll give you a taste of what I ordered, but if you want to see all of the lovely pieces, you'll need to pop over to Love My Art Jewelry and take a peek at the post I did there - hint: it's worth the click.)
Look at me getting distracted by the pretty things. Where was I?
Raised to be thrifty, I always keep the excess cord I trim from projects if I think they are long enough to use for something else. Which is how I end up with a mess like this:
But that, too, is a whole other topic. Back to this story... I trimmed excess cord from the ends of that bracelet and started knotting what I intended to be a pair of earrings, but the one I started got kind of large, so I decided to turn it into a pendant instead.
I went digging through my stash to find larger ring to anchor a necklace onto and a drop bead or something to add to the bottom of the pendant. But when I found a ring, I decided to incorporate it into the pendant instead of hanging the pendant from it and the pendant ended up upside down with a big(ish) ring knotted into the top. Still with me?
Still looking for a drop or something to hang from the bottom (which used to be the top), I came across this:
No way this could match any better if I had designed my color palette around this it! I have no idea what this pendant is made of - I don't even remember who I bought it from. I do remember that it was from someone destashing, so if you recognize it, let me know! I am guessing it's made of bone, but that's only a guess. I did take a photo of the back side, if this helps someone identify the material (and if you do know, please tell me!):
Anyway, there I go again, veering off topic. Well, I guess I'm still mostly on topic, just slightly left of center, but back to the main story: I love this fun wizard pendant and it looks awesome with the pendant piece and I probably couldn't do that again in a million years because the colors are pretty much spot on.
At this point I pretty much just had to knot some straps on this puppy and put it to bed, but you know me - I can't leave well enough alone. I wanted to use the soft green colored cord for the necklace straps, but I thought I needed to bring some of the colors from the pendant and the... what would you call that? A knotted pendant holder? From that thing, anyway... I wanted to bring some of the color up into the body of the necklace, so I added a bit more knotting to the topside of the ring and then transitioned into the solid green knotting on the straps.
And that's how this necklace came to be.
I wish I could tell you that this fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants design plan is an anomaly for me, but sadly this is more the rule than the exception. I'm not a sketcher and even when I do try to be a planner, it often veers off track. Sometimes, though, things come together just perfectly! I guess maybe we'll have to call "going with the flow" my plan.
I wish I could tell you that this fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants design plan is an anomaly for me, but sadly this is more the rule than the exception. I'm not a sketcher and even when I do try to be a planner, it often veers off track. Sometimes, though, things come together just perfectly! I guess maybe we'll have to call "going with the flow" my plan.
