Monday, August 30, 2010

Creation and Evolution

I am on Voila today in the Current Topic Series: Evolution!


I am amazed and thankful for the opportunities that come my way, weaving themselves into my creative process. Finishing this bracelet, thinking through my process and retracing my steps was a great experience.

Tomorrow we start back to school and as part of the writing process I teach my kids to read compositions out loud, to slow themselves down and self critique their work before I read it. They want to rush and skip this step (just like I do) but slowing down and actually hearing what one writes weeds out mistakes and hones the strengths. Being part of Voila's Evolution Series was similar for me. I was forced to think about what I was doing because I had to write the "story" of how this bracelet came to be.

Thank you, thank you Christine Dumont!

4 comments:

  1. I'm off to check out the links you've posted but wanted to say two things. First, the bracelet is absolutely stunning-I love the textures. Secondly, my daugghter skips this step too! Evidenced in how she will start erasing or adding carets as she is reading to me, with a sheepish grin to my I- told-you-so eye! Have a great start with back to school.

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  2. Great feature on Voila! I do like so much the flat edge aganst the wrist in this bracelet. It has made the jump from beads strung together and made into a bracelet to beads that were designed to sit on a wrist. Don't know if I'm making sense, but so much more a natural extension of the body....

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  3. I love the size of these!

    Great idea about reading work out loud, I have to do this with my own writing.

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  4. Genevieve, the evolution article got some good comments! They want more!

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