Custom work...

I love to do custom work because it provides me with a challenge but also gives me guidelines... plus I have to make something that my customer will like. A woman approached me asking for a match to be made to an earring that was missing it's mate. I recognized the top piece of glass to be black mardi-gras glass, and the base was a copper dichroic. Seemed simple enough, right? Well, I found that it was amazing how many different colors of copper/orange/yellow/gold and combinations of all of these there are. I finally fired every single tiny piece of dichroic glass that I had that could possibly have worked! I think I counted 40 little pieces and none of them were correct! I ended up having two pairs of finished earrings and mailed both to her with the hope that she will enjoy at least one of them. It was still a good challenge, I just hope she feels like she got more than she was hoping for.
If anyone out there sees anything that they think would look nice with a different design, color or image... I would love to try to make it for you. I want my work to feel personal to those who wear it. I want it to feel like they have a connection to the piece they purchase. Sometimes that happens by just seeing something that catches the eye... but sometimes it takes a match between the minds of the artist and the customer.
I hope you are all doing well!