Following on from my previous blogs:

The 3rd question I was asked was:
"What inspires you as you make your jewelry?"

My answer:
This is tricky as a lot of the beadwork/ jewellery making I do is for a specific purpose i.e. I have to bead something using a certain chain for a magazine project or come up with something using peyote stitch for a book.

But when I bead purely for my own pleasure, I am inspired by the beads and how I feel they want to fit together. By a shape I have in my mind and want to replicate; to hold in my hands. And also by a desire to see if I can bring to life something I have imagined.

A lot of my work is a challenge to myself to bring that thing to life and to see if I was right about how it would look, how it would work, would it even be possible etc?

Over to you:
So, what inspires you?
Is it a subject? a bead? an idea? 
is it more or less specific than that?
let me know.

On a beady note:
Today we visited Lavenham which was a lovely village with some great shops and galleries as well as The Swan Hotel where I treated myself to a fab afternoon tea- blowing the diet and the budget in one swoop!

I also treated myself to a lovely bronze dormouse by Paul Jenkins.

When not shopping or eating I am actually beading. The project I'm working on is Alston Lariat except I couldn't bear the thought of beading and embellishing 90cms of right-angle weave, so am turning it into a bracelet instead!