cjgrand
Location
Norwich, Ontario, Canada
Quick Blurb
I create unique handcrafted items including steampunk and metaphysical healing stone jewelry.
Interests
steampunk, rock collecting, costuming, wire wrapping, scifi, cosplay
Skills and Techniques
I consider myself a watch rehabilitator. A watch's only purpose in life is to tell time. When it can no longer do that it has no purpose to live, which is very sad. I give broken watches new purpose by rehabilitating them into wearable art.
Find me online @:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/cjgrand http://cjgrand.blogspot.com/ http://cjgrand.deviantart.com/ http://www.facebook.com/profile.…Get to Know
A few years ago I started buying small stones and minerals to make some unusual jewelry for myself, but I soon found I had more than I could wear in a lifetime. (It also ignited a passion for collecting rock and mineral specimens for display.) I realized that if I wanted to continue creating my jewelry I would have to find something else to do with it. So I created 'Healing Fashion' (metaphysical healing stone jewelry) and began selling at a few scifi conventions (one of my other passions).
It still wasn't enough to satisfy my need to create. That's when a friend suggested opening a shop on Etsy. So on December 30th 2007 I opened 'The Grand Design'
(The name is not an ego trip, Grand is my maiden name;)
Lately I've discovered a new obsession, Steampunk Jewelry. I was inspired to make some for myself but, again, I just didn't know when to stop. I've had so much fun with it that it has taken over a large part of my shop. So much so that I now feel the need to expand so I've opened a new shop here on ArtFire.
It still wasn't enough to satisfy my need to create. That's when a friend suggested opening a shop on Etsy. So on December 30th 2007 I opened 'The Grand Design'
(The name is not an ego trip, Grand is my maiden name;)
Lately I've discovered a new obsession, Steampunk Jewelry. I was inspired to make some for myself but, again, I just didn't know when to stop. I've had so much fun with it that it has taken over a large part of my shop. So much so that I now feel the need to expand so I've opened a new shop here on ArtFire.
