The mind game

Making jewellery is like cooking risotto. It takes time, and there is no way you could skip one step, speed it up or delegate to machinery. Not as far as hand fabrication goes.

I certainly have my favourite processes, but I’m also trying to find the good things where I might usually get bored. Today was all about filing, sanding, fixing mistakes I'd done in a rush last week and fiddling with tiny pieces of silver that need to fit precisely where I want them to be. It’s not exactly rocket science and doesn’t require too much mental capacity so I find it an interesting place to just let my mind wander and observe what is coming up.

It might be the psychology nerd in me that finds it fascinating that I think different thoughts in different languages. For example, I worry much more often in English, I have happier future-orientated thoughts in Czech and I argue in Danish (lol). Each to their own. I’m grateful for moments like these as they are so rare in life when I’m constantly in communication with someone else, or rushing from one place to another and trying not to forget anything.

Tomorrow, I will finally start putting it all together and see if it works as I imagined or not. Exciting times!

By the way, the weather today was amazing. It’s fresh, sunny and cold. It makes me so happy to see a blue sky!

P.S.: multilingual people, do you have a preferred language for thinking certain thoughts? Is it theme based, or situational? I've never heard anyone talking about this, so I wonder...