http://cs.artjewelrymag.com/artcs/blogs/artjewelry/2008/12/31/what-s-your-new-year-s-jewelry-making-resolution.aspxSo what&#39;s your New Year&#39;s resolution? Do you have a single resolution, or many? Is any jewelry-making involved?? Well, if one of your resolutions is to further your jewelry-making career or become more well-known, we may be able to help you outenCommunityServer 2007 SP2 (Build: 20611.960)http://cs.artjewelrymag.com/artcs/blogs/artjewelry/2008/12/31/what-s-your-new-year-s-jewelry-making-resolution.aspx#51743Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:38:36 GMT9605ba16-a6fd-4374-97d6-a658edea507a:51743Bentiron<p>I liked Christen&#39;s blog very much and as I was reading down the list of words one really struck me, effortlessly. That is how most of my designs come to me. I don&#39;t spend a lot of time agonizing over drawing a design for a piece of jewelry or sculpture. If I did that I would take up drawing. But this last year a good friend of mine really blew his top a me and no longer speaks to me because he agonizes over his sculpture, drawing it out, measuring with scale and calipers to get it just right. Taking weeks to make the wax and then getting something that does not fit his image of what it should be. I on the other hand would let the sculpture flow. If I have to select a word for the new year &nbsp;it would be spontaneity. Life is now too short at my age to worry about measuring out a drawing to the ninth degree and transfering to a work of art. I need to let life and my art flow while it can for the time is coming when the river will cease to flow. Enjoy the spontaneous flow while you can. Happy New Year!</p> <img src="http://cs.artjewelrymag.com/artcs/aggbug.aspx?PostID=51743" width="1" height="1">