Me: "Where do you gather inspiration from?"
Ayca: "I love to look at natural beauty and most of my creations are my inspirations from nature. Also I love to create as I am an industrial designer and any key words can inspire me for jewelry and accessories. I am open to my customer's ideas and wishes for inspiration."
Me: "Give us 2 words to describe your personal style"
Ayca: "Romantic and stylish"
Me: "What are your top 3 favorite shops/online stores?"
Me: "What was the BEST handmade gift that anyone has ever given you?"
Ayca: "I got a handmade gift from dear Liz as you know her lovely shop is Two Left Hands and she created a lovely brooch for me."
Me: What influenced you opening your Etsy shop?
Ayca: "After I graduated from Industrial Product Design, I worked for a while and the economic crisis influenced my life. At that time I decide to create by myself because I felt that working and creating at home would give me more inspirations to be creative. I first opened up my ayatasarim shop on etsy which specializes in jewelry design and a few months later I decide to specialize also on wedding jewelries and accessories on my ayawedding shop."
Me: "Tell us a little bit about your creative process"
Ayca: "I love to try new materials when I create. I use different fabrics for flower accessories and pearls, swarovski beads or beads. I create flowers generally searching for beautiful blossoms found in nature."
"I also learned felting techniques and I love to create flower accessories with merino wool. "
"I use wax for making models in silver jewelry designs. For silver designs generally I am open to my customers special wishes, whatever they give me for keywords I get inspiration for creating. And then I draw sketches and create models in wax and cast them in sterling silver."
"for example I created this pendant for one of my friends wedding as a gift. And on etsy people can contact me for their wishes in silver designs."
"For jewelry I use different stones, pearls to create necklaces, bracelets or earrings."
Me: "What is your favorite item in your shop, or your top-seller?"
Ayca: "These are my best sellers:
sooooo cute!!!
Me: "Besides your wonderful items in your shop, what are some of your other creative outlets/hobbies?"
Ayca: "I love dancing, painting, watching romantic comedy movies, listening to various music, and reading over emotional intelligence, personal development and success books."
Me: "Is there anything else that you would like to share with us about you or your fabulous creations?"
Ayca: "I love creating with my hands and hope to do many creations in my future creative life. Opening a glass, ceramics, fashion and jewelry studio in the future is my big dream."
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