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What’s New for May?

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 [...]

Finding a Niche

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 [...]

What is costume jewelry?

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, [...]