Why do I chainmaille?

Because its one of the few things in my life I have complete control over. The rings always behave in predictable manners. About the only randomness is where the rings fall when I drop them, and how tangled a weave gets when its in an unstable form.

Its also one of the few things I do where even self-deprecating me can see that I'm really good at it. I can't deny that I make fantastic and awesome looking jewelry. Maybe not the most inventive and creative yet, but I'm still learning a lot. I'm in the mimic phase of learning the craft, I haven't quite hit the point where I understand it enough to be truly creative. The chainmaille 'Real Book' that I'm making up for my personal use will help me document what I know, and help me document new weaves and variations as I either create them or learn them. Don't get me on my soap box about nomenclature and organization of weaves on Mailleartisans.org...

So many other things in my life are out of my hands, and so much that I do may amaze my friends but I can see how much better they need to be before I'll consider it good. I'm trying to convince myself that I've had a good day when I do something toward keeping my household clean and organized and I work on a chainmaille doodad. Jewelry projects rarely take me more than a couple hours - its easy to finish one in two days in my spare time.

Anyway - enough depressed ramblings from me. I need to get off the computer and go play bluegrass at the Frisco Farmer's Market (Coleman and Main, for those in the DFW area - every saturday morning!)

As always, my stuff is for sale
etsy -> [link]
facebook ->[link]
See a chainmaille piece you like? Check my Etsy shop, and if its not there just shoot me a message and I'll work it out. I'm also available for custom pieces, but because I'm doing this on the side my lead times for custom work vary a lot.