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ile artist and wanted to find myself again so ditched everything that wasn t metal and focused on silversmithing again what i was trained in and fell back in love with my art technological advances over the 15 years have also played a big part in my redirection as well i think the introduction of laser cutting was a big one for me the value perception price and accessibility of machine cut acrylic saw my jewellery sales drop over night and i could no longer compete with this so i dropped the line how did you start selling your work do you sell online or at markets shops i started selling at the young designers market as a member of the jso collective small business we started while at university in 2005 i then opened up an etsy shop www etsy com shop meekzcontjewellery to test my products online and finally opened up my own website www meekzcontemporaryjewellery com au to have full control of design style and create my own templates i currently have 25 stockist throughout australia that are small handmade sustainable or boutique style shops that i wholesale my designs to my favourite of all platforms to sell would have to be at markets or events though as i get to meet my customers face to face and see them light up when they spot something they love they are the reason i love what i do my jewellery workshops are also a form of work i sell as well as the tools we use in class i get so much joy from seeing a student light up with confidence once they have made something from scratch how do you find your inspiration i find inspiration from my surroundings from nature urban environment and my friends and family describe your studio workspace my studio is small but i love it i have converted the garage in my house into a studio space i have an old office desk that my grandfather converted into a jewellers bench i have another row of jewellery benches for my students a bench with a table mounted drill press a metal guillotine bender roller machine and soldering station and a open shelving system with all my finished stock market displays market tools marquee tables battery and lights and workshop tools materials and displays i also now have an office clean studio which i ve never had before so that s cool here i do all my invoicing accounting packaging of finished jewellery and store all my packaging boxes and felt for my pouches describe a typical creative day how do you balance your creativity with your everyday life work a typical day well i try to start or end the day with some sort of exercise i then have breakfast then head into the studio create a list with the days tasks and get to work making i then have lunch and then head back to work to finish off what i can for the day i then either exercise if i haven t already with a friend if possible and then make dinner and then veg out to some netflix or a movie have a shower and then head to bed some nights i may even sit and make jewellery while watching tv it s usually a late one for me as i am a night owl how do i juggle everyday life work well i plan my life around a diary everything gets entered into the calendar or it doesn t happen like if i have a meeting tomorrow or want to catch up with a friend next tuesday or i m having dinner with my parents in a month it all goes into my diary or i would forget everything my diary is life without it i wouldn t have a business or social life lol do you listen to music tv podcasts etc while creating i listen to the radio can t watch tv as i start watching it instead and podcasts i haven t tried yet do you have any advice for someone starting out in the creative world any tips that might help them love what you do find your niche something no one else has and make it yours your customers will love you for it and will keep coming back to you as they can only get it from you believe in yourself you can do this you are strong you know your stuff and you are talented or you wouldn t be starting this schedule in lunch break time with friends and family and take holidays do this its so easy to over look all of this and your mental state is worth more than money do you reduce reuse recycle as part of your creative process if yes how is your art craft eco friendly yep it is my core value i use sustainable materials methods and chemicals throughout my practise do you have a favourite item to make at the moment i would have to say it s my rain bow earrings and necklaces they just have that extra little wibble wobble and i love the combination of movement mixed metal and mixed textures do you have a favourite quote imagination is more important than knowledge for knowledge is limited whereas imagination embraces the entire world stimulating progress giving birth to evolution albert einstein what life means to einstein 1924 i fell in love with this quote in my teenage years and have lived every day by it i even have a tattoo on my back that says imagination is knowledge where do you see your creative journey taking you in the next 12 months in 12 months designing even better jewellery designs having hopefully a larger studio space one that i can teach bigger classes in and that i can paint decorate and make my own where can we find you online stockists links etc check out my website www meekzcontemporaryjewellery com au whereabouts did you find out about brisstyle it was one of the first markets i attended back in the day to sell my jewellery at it was so long ago now that i can t remember where i heard about it from sorry how long ago did you become a member and what made you decide to join i joined while i was in uni so between 2005 2009 again not sure on actual date sorry what do you think the covid 19 situation has changed in your creative practice covid 19 has definitely made it hard for my business i can no longer attend markets or events to sell my jewellery teach classes or speak at pd talks i however have been able to continue selling online definitely nowhere near as much as i use to make at events markets or workshops but it s something while i wait for centrelink my fingers are crossed before covid 19 i had wanted to start holding monthly ready to ship restocks on my website and treat the stock on hand as though it was a wholesaler and set it aside for when it sells i had in the past run my website in a make to order format and didn t get as many sales now with everything going on i suddenly have way more time on my hands and so held my first ready to ship restock in april and was blown away by my customers not only did i sell lots of pieces which i was so sure i wouldn t as it had never worked before but that i sold out of items and had customers contacting me personally asking if they could order more i m not sure if this was a fluke but i m going to continue and have another restock planned for next friday 1 st may at 8pm qld time so wish me luck xxx meekz posted by michelle little concrete jungle at 2 08 pm 26 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday april 20 2020 meet the maker myclectic please introduce yourself and tell us about what you create hi i m anita the face hands and brains behind the leather work label myclectic i m earring obsessed so that s mostly what i create what makes what you do that bit different to the other people in your creative field not the fact that i am an earring maker that s for sure but my point of difference is the materials i use leather is usually a material used for bags coats and shoes why not earrings and interior design samples such as lux wallpaper or vinyl floor samples again i say why not earrings i ve even made earrings out of corporate cricket tickets i don t want to be known as just another earring maker almost any material i look at i think how would that look as a pair of earrings how long since you started on this creative journey i think i first started selling on etsy and at markets around 2010 or 2011 but i have been a maker since i was a pre teen that s a long time ago were you creative as a child do you come from a creative family yes and yes i remember mum sewing clothes for us when we were little and i m very fond of a music box dad made that was completely covered in sea shells what s the story behind your business shop name if applicable i ve been through a few names until i landed on the present one first i was buttonbeads because i made button necklaces then i started making little purses and bags using an awesome stash of vintage material i scored through brisstyle contacts so i renamed myself mums cupboard because i was using materials found in my own mum s cupboard as well as other mum s cupboards and then when i started dabbling in leather my hubby and i came up with the name myclectic it comes from my kind of eclectic which is where i was heading we shortened it to what it is now registered it plastered it all over the internet and now it truly is mine it s the name i had been waiting for do you do this as a hobby or as a small business at first i approached this a business due to the fact that i was unemployed but eventually it has become more of a hobby again mostly because we needed to pay the bills and i found a new job how have you found your work has evolved since you started i never really knew what my style was at the beginning i just started making whatever i thought of at the time i started with the button necklaces because of a gift i made for a friend then because of the vintage fabric i acquired i moved on to bags i went through the glass cabochon bezel style jewellery stage next because i wanted to use up the fabric scraps from the bags i had made this lead me to experimenting with different things to glue into the cabochon jewellery vintage doilies fabric old maps vintage laura ashley paper samples and eventually comic books the comics were really cool and super popular but of course as with everything else i made previously others were soon making similar things and i was bored and wanted to get on to them next thing that s when the leather craft began how did you start selling your work do you sell online or at markets shops due to the tactile nature of my products i sell mainly at markets and my very first market ever was a brisstyle twilight market how do you find your inspiration mostly inspiration comes to me from the actual materials i use it s the colours and the textures that get my creative juices going describe your studio workspace i ve got the corner of an enclosed verandah in the beautiful old queenslander home we currently live in it has a fabulous large window i can gaze out of and over our quiet suburban street i have a table covered in everything i am working on and absolutely need i have everything at my fingertips yes it looks like a war zone and i love it that way describe a typical creative day how do you balance your creativity with your everyday life work it really helps having a room solely for the purpose of working in i can shut the doors and leave the mess this allows me to continue what i was doing when i get home from the other job i love not having to pack up do you listen to music tv podcasts etc while creating sometimes i listen to music through my ear phones but mostly i work in silence that s when the ideas start rolling i talk to myself a lot too doesn t everyone do you have any advice for someone starting out in the creative world any tips that might help them my suggestions are more about being happy rather than ambitious i have a few don t compare yourself with others success and all things shiny on the internet are mostly illusions remember that when you feel a bit down be careful not to become a slave to your followers make what you love not just what you think is popular don t copy others it s unethical and so unoriginal be yourself be real have fun do you reduce reuse recycle as part of your creative process yes always have always will i come from the don t waste it generation if yes how is your art craft eco friendly i use even the tiniest pieces of leather for my earrings and save every scrap i also use a lot of samples from my day job do you have a favourite item to make earrings do you have a favourite quote don t sweat the small stuff everything is small stuff from the movie pontiac moon where do you see your creative journey taking you in the next 12 months i m not going any where i m happy to just keep making earrings using lots of pretty upcycled bits and pieces and i hope to be a bit more selective in my market venue choices this year less is more where can we find you online stockists links etc i m on etsy and finders keepers online https www etsy com au shop myclecticstudio https www thefinderskeepersmarketplace com shop directory myclectic whereabouts did you find out about brisstyle many years ago i met a brisstyler who worked in a shop called incub8er in the valley where i rented a shelf to sell my leather cuffs i was making at the time she recommended checking out a brisstyle market which i did and was absolutely hooked how long ago did you become a member and what made you decide to join i m not sure how long ago it was but it was a very long time ago way back before instagram or ipads and when facebook was still a big deal and there was no such thing as algorithms i think mobile phones had just been invented how do you think the covid 19 situation has changed your creative practice it s changed everything i had just started prepping for two of my biggest markets when boom the world stopped and retail pretty much died a slow death markets are everything to my creative practice who needs earrings when people are dying but a creative must create so i made gifts for dear friends practical gifts fabric face masks and then i decided to keep a daily accomplishments journal just to keep on track and not get too down about what is happening i will make for the duration but i am now more inclined to make more practical things for me and my friends and do lots of studio tidying up in readiness for i m not really sure posted by michelle little concrete jungle at 3 53 pm 19 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels monday maker monday september 18 2017 monday maker macandroma say hello to fiona the creative brain behind the label macandroma do you come from a creative family fiona as a child my mother had a workroom it was a room full of craft sewing knitting spinning crocheting doll making and crammed with things i would watch and assist her in creating whatever project she was working on at the time regularly she would be sewing and i was allowed to help with the sewing machine then create something out of the scraps i made little sleeping bags for my dolls blankets pillows for my teddies occasionally clothes for my dolls but they weren t the best mum still has a workroom today in a different house and it is still brimming full of things and she still sews my dad has always been creative too he is lucky in...