My last post was about having found my niche. So here is what I have done so far.
I bought 30 pounds of used, vintage, mismatched and broken jewelry. Granted it was in several smaller lots, but it totaled up to just short of $100 dollars.
I sorted through all of it. Separated wearable pieces [...]
You would think that having been beading for almost 10 years and having a shop for almost 3 years, I would have found my niche before now. But, no, I hadn’t. I had flirted with it. I even opened a new site for it. But I never said, “This is it! This is the [...]
Costume jewelry, or fashion jewelry, a term preferred by Coco Chanel, is everyday jewelry. Typically, it is jewelry that makes a fashion statement. Made of materials generally less expensive than high-end fine jewelry, fashion jewelry uses high quality simulated stones, semi-precious stones, glass, crystals, fresh water pearls, shells, rhinestones, silver and gold plated metals, [...]
All the hoopla involved with trying to maintain Christmas inventory and sales, with trying to develop the new line and its web site, and trying to do a bit of design and getting a blog going, and I forgot about business. It took a tv make over show about a woman whose career wants were so [...]