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This piece is a good example of why you need to accept criticism gracefully. This allows people to safely point out things you might have missed.

My original idea for this pendant involved a sem-circular top, and a straight band of maple dividing the clock from the gears. Unfortunately, what turned out looked like a tombstone with a clock on it. I shortened the bottom half, and shaped the center divider into a curving, sideways "S". Then I held it in front of my husband and said, "Quick, what's the first thing you think of when you see this?"

"A tombstone, " he answered. Pause. "And a Pepsi sign."

Well crap. I'd totally missed the Pepsi thing. I re-shaped the walnut backing into a diamond shape, which seems to have helped. And, as usually happens with my stranger experiments, it sold at yesterday's craft fair. Which just goes to show that I have NO way of predicting what people will like. Not that I'm complaining...
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*Llyzabeth Jul 13, 2008
But it's so HARD to accept criticism, when I really want people to tell me how much they love it and wouldn't change a thing :) Lucky for you you're better at it than I am...

It turned out pretty stunningly, that's for sure.
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~Fandragon Jul 16, 2008
I think I'm getting a little better at it now. The trick is to never respond in such a way that makes the other speaker cringe.
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~Mizamour Jul 13, 2008
Absolutely beautiful! Though that's funny about the Pepsi! :) My boyfriend points out things like that in my writing, that I never would have noticed at the time, but are hilarious and off-the-wall when I see them. I love your work! It reminds me so much of steampunk designs. Another stunning piece!
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~Fandragon Jul 16, 2008
Thank you! It's helpful to have another set of eyes to look things over. My favorite instance was when I made a coiled-pot in clay class. I decided to spruce it by fitting little coil-circles in between the layers, and then putting a circle of loops around the top. As soon as it came out of the kiln, a woman in the class looked at it and said, "Oh, neat! It looks like the king of the fish-people." Drat drat drat; the silly thing looked like a fish with a crown. That was a piece that didn't make it home with me.
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