When I started, I had no idea of what a business plan was. As many beginners I thought “well, I’ll make the pieces and people will come”, but that only led to frustration! I had no one to show my jewels to, and sales were low or none for months.
Learning about marketing techniques is [...]
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The pictures you will see here all show boxes I’ve made for custom orders and gifts bought by customers. I recycle box cardboards from all kind of boxes and cover them with recycled vintage wallpaper and other materials, both recycled and bought. Every box holds inside a very small pack of wonderfully smelling bath salts, [...]
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When I started making jewelry it was just fun. Friend’s inquiries about pendants or earrings really made the dream start to take shape, as it may be happening to many of you. You have started wondering if you could make jewelry for a living. Well, the answer is as simple as YES. Every jewelry artist [...]
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One day, you buy your first plier and some rolls of wire and make your first loop. Disastrous, of course. You add one bead and painstakingly get to add the hook and you feel like the Queen of Jewelry Land. You actually get it to make a pair. Double feeling of being the queen.
Years go [...]
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