Capulin Contemplations

Use what you’ve got. Don’t reinvent the wheel. Love the one you’re with. How many more clichés can I stick in here? A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush? The grass is always greener on the other side? Sometimes I feel I have to look outside of my house or my city or my life to find the good stuff, the truly inspiring stuff, as though what I have around and in front of and inside me isn’t good enough. But the mundane scraps of life can be the most inspiring. Sometimes I simply need to...

I attended a small show recently featuring maybe ten artists, quite a few of them jewelers, hoping to get ideas about their setups. What I got instead was a valuable lesson in what not to do.

Most of these artists made a mistake so large it likely cost sales. A mistake I’m sure I could have and would have made myself.

There’s nothing much better than the sparking of ideas. Some random sight might inspire me to come up with a particular design, which might inspire a client to come up with a variation, which in turn inspires me to take that variation to a different place.

And sometimes my clients come up with custom designs I never would have thought of.

Ever wondered what it takes to have a custom piece of jewelry made? At Capulin Creations, I...

I was disappointed by one of my suppliers the other day.

This particular company went on the defensive by yelling at their followers, berating their clients, and whining about their lot in life.

Far be it from me to ever follow such an example.