Struggling

The reason for my struggle yesterday, and lately, while creating new jewelry, is basically because I want to stick to the oriental (middle eastern/arabian) style that I have chosen for myself, without having to use Fatima's Hand all the time. And the thing is, it turned out, I simply am stuck. I love them too much to drop them now, even to return back to them a little later. So anyway, as stubborn as I can be sometimes, I still made some new jewelry using Fatima's hand, again, but this time I tried to be more innovative, I used fabric! I was quite happy with the result, design wise, but not the finishing, still this wasn't a bad start. I do consider it a start because that was my first day actually working in my new workshop. I have moved there two weeks ago, did the office work, gave my jewelry making classes, organised all my stock, but never started really designing until yesterday. I needed to feel at home and clear my mind, and also, more annoyingly important, I just had to wait for moments of inspiration!

Here's one of the necklaces I made yesterday, I used brown satin fabric in this one. I love it, the fabric looks like it was intended to be this way as a part of the design, a free form of a sort, but next time I am going to make similar designs, I think I am going to sew the fabric first.

I also used the fabric with non Fatima's hand jewelry (yepee) and I am quite pleased with the result, check those royal blue fabric earrings. 

For the rest of the jewelry, check the pictures here

For those of you who don't know what Fatima's Hand means and where it comes from, here's some info that might help.