In it comes, out it leaves

I wanted to add some new beads on my sales list tomorrow but just a couple of hours after announcing that, with some photo's, I sold them all! I'm still very shocked yet of coarse, very happy about this!

I've got new beads in the oven though as I write this, so there will be plenty of new things to buy! I'm really exited how business is going, it is a lot of fun and very exiting!

Fleamarket results

The Fleamarket didn't go as well as I hoped but still better then the first time I did one! Perhaps it just takes time and expirience to become a bit more successful? I'm not giving up and I will be doing a fleamarket sometime soon again!

Business tips

I'm doing a booth at the fleamarket on Saturday. I'm really exited yet nervous. There are so many little things to think about! I found this great website though, have a look if you are interested in tips for your jewelry business.

http://www.home-jewelry-business-success-tips.com/index.html

Letting go...or not...

Sometimes it's easy to just put my things up for sale. I imagine, create, form and finish and then put the item up for sale, but sometimes I can't let go of a certain piece, like the one on the bottom right. It's a very pretty piece (for me) and I loved wearing it (for a test) even though I hardly ever wear black anymore. So the other three are up for sale (if you are interested let me know and we can figure something out as it's coming from switzerland). I hope they find a good home soon.

Should I?

I'm toying with the idea of getting a small space at the fleamarket we have here in my City. It's on every Saturday and pretty big. Not sure if it would be the right setting though for my things but I would really like to sell "outside" of my living room (smile). As I'm living in a small city and a small country at that, we don't really have fairs like bead+buttons and what-not like in america. That would be awesome! Maybe one day I'll have to organize one, hahaha.....the dreams! :-)

Getting something done

Apart from working way too much (it's so exhausting at the moment) I've been working on my newest custom order. I finished it yesterday and must say, I'm pretty pleased! It's a ring with matching Pendant. Of coarse the photo doesn't really do the colours much justice, in real life they look so vibrant! It's a happy piece, I like it, my customer as well! Hope to be getting more projects like this in!

Two New Flowers

I was busy today creating two new flowers and the tutorials to them. I guess if you've seen one of this kind you can make another, with different colours again. But I decided to document both anyway. Next time I'll make a tutorial for beads. Haven't done one for beads before.

I sold a lot of things last week and it was very nice sending the packages out to people all over Switzerland. Getting feedback from them was also very nice and very motivating! Selling also allows me to continue my hobby. If I wouldn't sell I'm not sure how long I could do this for, at least not at this rate because the materials are pretty expensive over here. So, selling has many sides to it not just making money but also being able to do something I love.

The set...

This green Set is for Sale!

This one is for my Sister!

My first order! Hurrayyy...

I received a phone call from a woman today who bought a few beads and things from me this week asking me if I had any beads without varnish. I said: "well, not on sale, but I can make you some!" And so we got talking and she asked me if I wouldn't be able to make her some black and red flower beads and I beamed! "Sure!!!" I can do pretty much anything, hahaha...

I'm so excited. I'm so excited that I messed up a big chunk of red and black in a hurry to get to work (even though she said I shouldn't hurry)!! I wanted to blend some colour and screwed it up completly. So much for patience! I'll have to go buy more red clay on Friday, no big deal. Yeah, this is great news for me and makes me very happy!

rolling them up!

I continued with the fun idea of rolling up beads. The last batch I made out of scrap clay was not only fun to do but also looked pretty good. So I took it a step further and used "new" clay and tried out some colour combinations. I rolled different colours through the pasta machine together and just kinda played around with it. It's really fun to make. After the beads were baked, the small red ones actually reminded me of pasta itself, they are very thin and even sound like hard pasta in my hand.

I put them up for sale to see if any one is interested in this sort of bead. I wonder....

After being so disappointed on Saturday because I didn't sell anything at the fleamarket I am now even more exited to have sold more beads on this swiss ebay thing (ricardo.ch) today. I have put everything on there to sell with lower prices and better photos and voila! I do hope this continues!! I need to get cracking with producing more I guess and really get out there and get known so that one day I can earn money instead of only spending all the time! :-)

Early in the morning I went to the Fleamarket with my things in my napsack. I spend hours on preparing everything, making labels, prices etc. To my dismay I didn't sell one single thing! I got a lot of compliments but no one bought anything!

Maybe it just wasn't the right place to sell my things, perhaps the prices were to high, I don't know. I am a bit disappointed but I wont let it get me down. At least I finally got the courage to sell my things.

I have now decided to put everything up on the swiss-ebay thing and see how it'll go there. I've sold some beads there already so maybe I'll get some sales there. We'll see.

small pink rose beads

yellow flower beads

This is my yesterday's work. I put them up for sale to see if people are interested in this kind of theme. What I find hard at the moment is putting prices on the things I make. Sometimes I think I'm too expensive other times too cheap. Figuring out the worth of something is tough, for me at least. I guess with time I can go up with my prices but for now I'll just stick to them.

I sold my very first beads two days ago! It sure puts a boost to my self esteem having someone buy my beads. It also motivates me to continue, to go bolder, bigger and out there *smile*. This could be the beginning of a beautiful adventeur!