A post in our Create Your Style community sparked some thoughts in regards to designing and how the best laid plans can sometime go awry.......   I personally enjoy this part of the creative process, I think I am going to do one thing with the lastest piece I am designing, a detour happens and a new creation emerges.  
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Little chilly here in Dallas today but been playing in the studio today with some wire crochet.  Using a 22g wire in a beautiful antique copper color that I got from Parawire that I am loving and mixed some of my favorite SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS crystals into the pieces for that added bit of sparkle.  Bit harder to work with over all vs.
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Many times we as designers are asked "What inspired you to create that design?".    Sometimes it is a very easy answer I find but other times not as easy........I don't know about you but I am inspired by so many things that it is hard to pinpoint exactly what I was inspired by yet other times I completely know what was the inspiration for a particular design.  Simple, right to be inspired?  yes & no.....each of us are inspired by so many different things.  
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There are many things in life that we appreciate even more as time goes by, one of those for me is being a mom.  I have more than appreciated being a mom since day one but the joy, love and experiences get better with each year.   
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