Open House Day

See the first pics of today’s Open House here!

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Jewelry Display Case Tutorial

This case was made for my new jewelry collection, from a cardboard box in the shape of a case, which belonged to a big doll. It is the size of a regular small case.
First thing I did was taking off the original plastic handle and closures. It was covered in vintage fabric and adorned with [...]

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New Page added: Rena Klingenberg Jewelry Business ebooks for sale from our site!

The first time you type on your google search bar looking for articles about jewelry home based business, it is very likely to happen that Rena Klingenberg’s site, Jewelry Business Success Tips, is the first to come up. She truly deserves that first position! She has written more than 400 (yes, 400!!!!) FREE articles about [...]

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The cheapest ring mandrel in the world…and more, including Picasso

Sometimes jewelry (or any other craft) tools come from the most unexpected places. The mandrel you will see in the pic is a discarded tube of eyelash mascara from L’oreal. My aunt was getting rid of some wasted make-up and yes, I must have been too much time working with on the studio, because I [...]

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Free Tutorial: Portfolio Jewelry Display

I work a lot on jewelry displays. I am very stubborn in what comes to paying lots of money for things I can make myself! Also, Jewelry has special needs that other crafts do not have: it has to be prevented from rusting and tangling, and sometimes you give it to other people to sell [...]

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Living Creatively:Avoiding Routine When You Own an Art Home-Based Business

Though all my customers know I make many different crafts, what I am known for, and consequently what I sell, is jewelry. In a week, jewelry making/selling takes 80% of my time. If I’m not at the craft room, coiling wire, then I am at the computer, promoting or writing. In many weeks, that 80% [...]

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How To Create Chances To Sell Your Jewelry (Part One): Developing The Habit Of Selling

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Victor Hugo
I’ve heard and read many times the “I’m not the selling type personality, I don’t have the character” argument. I thought that of myself actually. I was even so childish to think that yes, I could make great jewels, but I would never sell them [...]

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The Big Plan

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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Taking Good Care of Business!

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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Starting a Jewelry Business? 10 Things to Start Making NOW

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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