12/16/20: Jewelry Making: LO2_C

Every Christmas I have to make presents for my family. I am not allowed to buy them. As the best gift giver in my family I have a lot to live up to each year. This year I decided to try something new. Jewelry making. This has always been something I thought was a super cool skill because you can be artistic and use what you make. Anyways I've been learning how to use the wires and beads to create sophisticated looking designs. It is very difficult because I am self teaching and doing original designs which makes it even harder. However, it is turning out very well. I am pretty proud of myself. I am getting the hang of it and they are all original designs.

For making earrings, they were difficult to make because they are dangles it is sometimes hard to do a design with the wire because it keeps moving but you are using both hands to design the wire. But I have found shortcuts so that I can anchor the wire to an easy place on the earring so that the wire doesn't keep moving out of place. This has helped me improve my creative problem solving skills. 

For the rings I have also been working my creative problem as well as my attention to detail skills. I generally move through things pretty fast and sometimes miss some details however making rings has made me be more detail oriented because they go on someones finger so you have to make sure there are no stray wires poking out anywhere. You have to make sure that the bead or design is facing the right way and will stay. Jewelry making over all is very detail oriented. 

This has been a great artistic challenge that has improved my creative problem solving skills and attention to detail. I love doing it and am very proud of my work. I even made some jewelry for myself.

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