At least on my end, preparations are underway. Last year I had the pleasure of being asked to donate a few pieces of my jewelry to the art auction. Of course I was delighted to do so. It is a great way to get my jewelrypieces out in the public eye and the proceeds go to benefit a local art gallery. I made three pieces especially for the auction. For my trouble, I received a pair of tickets to the event.
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| A piece from last year's auction, made by myself. |
Lee always likes to attend this event so he had been going for years. We went and had a great time.... except for one thing. I had donated thre items for the auction. All three of my items were placed on the Silent Auction table instead of in the actual auction. I had donated three items in the hopes that they would at least place one in the full blown auction. I was hurt and upset by this.
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| Another of the pieces donated to the auction by myself from last year. |
This year, I have once again decided to donate items to the cause. I will once again be creating brand new pieces fr this event. However, I am stipulating that at least one of my items be placed in the actual auction. If they do not agree to this, I wil not donate anything. I don't really think it's too much to ask. I just want the exposure of having the auctioneer takes public bids on my item and watch it being displayed by the lovely volunteer "Vanna White"s.
I have been planning to begin work on these pieces all week.. and have yet to actually sit down and do so. I have however been giving a lot of thought to what kind of pieces I want to create. My goal is to once again make three items. I plan to make one piece out of something vintage that has been repurposed, like an old vintage rhinestone piece or beads or chain from a broken piece of vintage jewelry. I plan to make one small copper wire wrapped pendant with fresh water pearls. And the last piece I can not decide on a design yet..... perhaps a large pair of wire wrapped earrings.
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