Designing Jewelry from your Hopes and Dreams: Jean Yates
Posted by Eri
I recently met a wonderful jewelry designer while looking at jewelry making blogs.
Her name is Jean Yates.
I was fascinated by her book called “Links.”
In the book, Jean teaches how she creates jewelry designs based on her own experiences, her own hopes and dreams.
One thing I really like about her design approach is that she often thinks back to her early childhood memories and uses those as a starting point for her designs.
I like that so much because children’s minds are so free to be creative, and if we practice going back to when we were children and really try to feel what that was like, we will be released from so many of the restrictions we put on ourselves as adults.
I highly recommend Jean’s book to help you get your creative design juices flowing.
Here’s a link to her book on Amazon: Jean Yate’s “Links”
You will see in the reviews section on Amazon that Jean has many raving fans!
I also recommend you check out her blog which is very interesting and creative:
Jean also told me that she writes a column for a beading magazine in Australia called Australia Beading Magazine and that she really enjoys doing that.
After you read Jean’s book, please leave a comment here and let me know what you thought about it.
Thanks!
