I recently had a friend look at my little heart earrings and ask whether I cut each heart out of silver leaf by hand. He suggested I get a heart-shaped hole-puncher so that it'd go quicker.
Um.... how should I answer this.... EW! NO!
What an awful idea. Not only do I steer clear of the particular shape that those little "perfect heart" holepunchers make, but it wouldn't really scream 'handmade' to do it that way. I love each of my little hearts and there's simply no way that I would ever want to resort to a mini cookie cutter. And no, maybe my earrings sets don't have two identical heart clones, but that's part of their charm!
I'd like to shake the soul whose mind suggested a holepuncher while yelling, "You just don't get it, do you?!"
Yes, Fight Club IS my favorite movie, how did you know?
Although, the idea of becoming violent towards someone over some little red heart earrings seems a little... silly (but very, very justified, don't you think?).
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8 months ago
The combination (violence over hearts) seems fitting, coming from the source :)
ReplyDeleteBut you know, there are many vendors aka craftspeople down at the market that avoid as much "true" hand making as they can.
Machines and tools and efficiency to cut the time it takes and thus the profit they can make.
I respect you for sticking to your charm infused hand-crafted guns. with hearts on them.