If at first you don’t succeed..

Following on from my previous post about whether something has to be finished to be valuable and prompted by the comment made by Dilly about learning from trying things  I was reminded of the old adage

“if at first you don’t succeed try and try again..”

I have to admit that ( too) often I have laid something aside because it was not “perfect”. But whenever I am making jewellery I have no problem at all with breaking a piece up and reworking it until I get a finished result that I like. Sometimes it takes 2 or 3 remakes before I get there. I use the same materials give or take a piece of wire or some small crimps – and on the way I usually stumble across some other look that I can try out at another time. And just recently my daughter bought a hand-made necklace that has sharp edges which makes it uncomfortable to wear. She asked me if I could file these down but my efforts did not help much.  She has now asked me to break that up and remake it..so I will be using somebody else’s materials in my own way.

Taking this as an example for other “creative” projects here’s a couple of questions

1 If you were to rework an existing project could you use the same ingredients in another way for a more satisfying result? (  this could also be useful in  preparing for a job interview !)

2 Do you have materials from other resources that you can blend/rework? ( always having in mind copyright issues of course!)

3 What could you learn during the process of either of those?

Thanks to Dilly for the inspiration!