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January 13th, 2010Downtown D.C. Holiday Market
December 14th, 2009Come one, come all to the Downtown DC Holiday Market from 12/17 through 12/23 and see me and one of my jewelry partners, Cindy Folkers of Stardust Jewelry. We will be showing our jewelry at booth number 23 from 12 Noon to 8 PM Thursday through Wednesday.
In addition to our pure silver jewelry we will be introducing our new work in bronze and copper and showing a selection of our Christmas ornaments in the new materials.
Busy, busy, busy!
November 3rd, 2009Between selling jewelry at craft shows, helping my dad at Greenfest and getting that horrendous cold that’s been going around, I’ve definitely let the blog slide! This month is going to be even busier! I’m going to be selling my jewelry at a school fundraiser in Ashburn, VA this weekend, I’ve started a weekly belly dancing class at the YMCA, and I’m selling my jewelry for the 6th year in a row at the Garrett Park Nursery School Craft Show. Because of this and other upcoming December shows I have elected to not travel to Pittsburgh with my husband to visit his family for Thanksgiving. I am spending the weekend at home and will only take a break from jewelry making for part of the day on Thanksgiving to go to dinner with my Aunt and her family. Hopefully I’ll get plenty done!
I’ve introduced a new medium into my work – Bronzclay. I haven’t fired anything yet but I’ve made pieces of a box that I have to put together, as well as a couple of incense holders, a tiny little treasure bowl, and pieces for a bracelet. I’m planning on firing those pieces this week! I’m so excited! I’ve been planning on making Christmas and Hanukkah ornaments out of the Bronzclay so that I can have something non-jewelry related that still is in harmony with my jewelry.
Photos of the Bronzclay pieces will be put up as soon as I get them fired.
Craft Open House
September 24th, 2009Please come see me at the Artisan Showroom in Olney, MD. I will be showing my work, along with several other artisans and crafters from 12 noon to 8 pm. For a list of artists and address of the Showroom please visit the Artisan Showroom website.
Artisan Showroom
Old Work, New Shows
September 14th, 2009The fall season brings lots of shows to any jewelry maker, I have a few that I am scheduled to do and I’m awaiting confirmation of some others. This means pricing new work for sale.
Kiddies, I have a word of advice for you: Always, and I mean ALWAYS input newly purchased materials into some sort of inventory control system. This may seem like a “no duh” piece of advice but I can tell you from experience that not doing this will result in frustration down the road.
I just spent the better part of my Sunday pricing a few pieces very inefficiently due to having to page through several lists of materials that I jotted down on paper when new materials were bought. It wasn’t until a little while ago that I started entering materials into a spreadsheet onto my Google Docs. You don’t need a fancy and costly program for inventory control, you can use any spreadsheet program. I like spreadsheet because you can have one page for each type of material. I have a page for pearls, another page for loose stones, a page for clasps, etc., etc., etc. I like Google Docs because you can access your spreadsheet from any computer that has internet access.
I wish that I had entered all materials, the minute I got home with them, into a spreadsheet as one of the pieces I was pricing yesterday (the Morning Glory Necklace pictured in my previous post) took over an hour to price! This is a lesson to me that as I go along pricing my work I will add any material that I am looking up retroactively to my spreadsheet.
For a list of upcoming events that I will be showing at please go to my website.