Linda's Magic Workshop - Linda Britt Design

If you are like me, you have boxes of things that you just might need one day.   When I’m making something that looks good but isn’t what I want right then, it goes into one of those boxes.   And yes those boxes are organized with the hope that I will remember to look in them.    We jewelry artists work with tiny parts and I still wonder how to organize, catalog and remember to look.   Maybe part of the creative process is the surprise of finding one of the pieces. I just finished a necklace and did not like any of the clasps I had in my fastener box.   I took out my wire and made one.   I did not think it looked like the necklace either.   So I made another and another and finally made one I really liked.   Into the ‘fastener box’ went the ones that were not perfect for this project.   I realized that I was starting a collection of my handmade fasteners.   I have brass, bronze, copper and silver.   I think I need to make a piece of jewelry starting with the clasp!   Just sharin

When something piques my interest, I seem to dive right in.   What? Me try to do just one and see if I like it?   Oh not me! Exploring in depth is more my style.   I love vintage hats, hatpins, perfume bottles and ribbon flowers.   My mother-in-law gave me some very old family heirlooms – tiny ribbon flowers.   I treasure them.   So when my friend, Jay, asked me to go to a class with her and learn to make ribbon flowers, I just had to do it.   Jay is an accessorizer extraordinaire - http://www.plant-effects.com .     The class was held at http://www.askrenandsons.com a floral warehouse business in Tucson and I came home with lots of gorgeous silk wired ribbon.   I had such a good time with Kathy Askren (instructor) that I bought several books and kept learning different techniques.   After several months, I also had lots of flowers!   They were used on beautiful packages as part of the ribbons and worn on dresses and coats.   They went on hats and in hair and I made a spectacular flo