So, What Have I Been Up To?

25
Apr
2010

I have been:

  1. Taking a nice break from uni.
  2. Working on projects for uni.  It’s not all fun, fun, fun. :P
  3. Going for my first visit to A&E, after not being able to move out of a foetal position.  Didn’t really think much of it, just thought it was the woman within me being a pain.
  4. Nurturing my little shoulders – too much tension in one apparently.  I’m just glad it’s finally stopped being annoying and I can move my arm and doing other things besides watching TV.
  5. I’m back at uni. – have been for a week.  Had a mock interview on Friday and as it seems I spent too long making a portfolio.  Turns out I could have just walloped a photo of my pieces and wah-lah, a portfolio.
  6. Now I’m working towards the making of my final piece but I’m still working around the price of manufacturing.  Here are some illustrations of my collection.

The concept is to show a loved one how you feel through poetry.  The tags within the pendant swing side to side reveal a quote from a poem.  According to my research the shapes of the pendants are unisex and to continue accessibility to both genders I have supplemented cabochons of unisex colours. :)

At the moment I’m working on a more cost effective way to manufacture these as one would cost me about £73 pounds to make1, which in turn will cost over £100 to sell.  My original intention was to make to something to sell within the £50 to £100 boundary.

My other dilemma is what other poem/sonnet/etc I could use.  Although the tags are customisable for the consumer I would like each pendant to include 2 quotes of literature, for display purposes.  So far I have:

  1. “To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another” – G. Wilhelm Leibniz
  2. “Love is the life of a soul.  It is the harmony of the universe.” – William Ellery Channing
  3. “Life if a flower of which love is the honey.” – Victor Hugo
  4. “Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination” – Voltaire
  5. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr Seuss
  6. “You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but seeing an imperfect person perfectly.” – Sam Keen
  7. “Love is the master key that opens to the gates of happiness.” – Oliver Wendall Holmes

Any ideas are welcome. :)

  1. Excluding labour costs, by the way. [↩]