"Use what you have."I was in an etsy forum the other evening, and everyone was discussing the best business advice they'd ever gotten. Someone said, "Use what you have."
Now, I'm a practical girl at heart, okay, except for the 100+ pairs of shoes. But I love love love to buy beads and supplies. New stuff gives me new ideas to make something different and wonderful. New supplies are the best thing ever.
However, I have so much stuff, bins and bins of stuff. I have beads and beads and more beads, and every single little plastic baggie full of beads made me happy when I first bought it. Then, some got shoved to the back or the bottom, and forgotten, and I fell out of love because of some brighter, shinier, new thing. Bad, bad MAB. So fickle.
So, I'm going to use what I have for awile. This necklace I made from a mixed bag of pearls, mismatched, left over from other projects or from lots of vintage beads that I picked up here and there, along with a sprinkling of glass beads and crystals, also left over from other projects. The tigereye heart is from a batch of stone beads that a friend brought me from her trip to England. All together, I think it's one of my favorite pieces that I've made lately.
"Use what you have." Wise advice, huh?
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