Wishes everyone a very Happy New Year in 2008!

I’ve spent the last year sorting and organizing my studio and am now looking forward to creating new designs and jewelry renderings that have been accumulating in my sketchbooks. I still have a long way to go but at least my walls of archived files and books are starting to make more sense.  ONLY one hundred and thirty five boxes (YIKES!) of saved information yet to file away now and currently 400 binders to sort them into. Soon to be 500 since most of those are already bursting at the seams.  I’m amazed that I’ve actually read all this compiled data that I’ve been sorting through. The books, catalogs and magazines I am not even going to attempt to count. I have almost complete sets of Ornament & Metalsmith (starting with Goldsmiths Journal) Magazines. Some day I hope to scan the covers and type the contents of those to index them.

What you may ask is all the stuff that I’m saving? Well mostly anything and everything to do with jewelry, art and design. Metalcyberspace is only the tip of the iceberg. For each and every designer I save information as I come across it into their own file. Some designers have entire binders of their own to store all the articles.  For instance there are five binders each on Cartier and Artwear Gallery (Robert Lee Morris & artists featured). Then I have theme based files so if I ever need to research anything it’s all at my fingertips. Color, texture, shapes and patterns. Animal, garden, gems and styles. People, places, history and ideas. ETCETERA….
I wish there was some sort of computer chip that could download my brain then I would have more space and time.
:)
Susan Sarantos