So far I have been working on my designs on illustrator and making them come alive on the lazer cutter. However i’m putting that on hold while I focus on making my book for the Artists Book fair. We have to make three books which can either be a multiple or a series and at the moment my initial plan is to make multiple. Now i’ve been looking at alot of DIY bloggers from America and they have influenced me hugely and it was from this that i’ve decided to make a step by step DIY book on how to create your own piece of jewellery. I want the book to contain the materials you need so it will almost be a pack. I’ve been researching to see if their is anything similar on the market at the moment and what I can do to make mine a bit different. My idea was to offer a brooch kit for ‘a brooch a day’ enough material to make 7 brooches one for each day of the week or something you can change throughout the day dependent on your mood and outfit. I thought about the different materials you could use to easily change a brooch front, there was poppers, velcro, and then I thought about magnets! Not only can you use them on your brooch but in the mean time you can use them to decorate your home (stick them on the fridge). I’ve ordered some brooch pins and some magnets and now I need to experiment with what material will be best to make the face.
A few of the blogs i’ve been addicted to scrolling through at the moment:
