1. Sell More Jewelry at Shows,
   Fairs, and Festivals this Year

2. New Jewelry Business Tips and Techniques:
   - 6 insightful new jewelry business articles
   - 2 new jewelry display / packaging ideas

3. Sell More One-of-a-Kind Jewelry

4. Share Your Article, Project, Tip, or Photo -
   and Get a Valuable Link to Your Website

5. Your Profitable Jewelry Business:
   Possibilities, Imagination, and Creative Inspiration

6. Neat Jewelry-Related Website:
   Ballistic Fashions - fine crafted bullet jewelry

7. How to Sell More Jewelry Online

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1. The Business of Beads - Bookkeeping
   After making jewelry for over six years, Linda Guzik realizes she needs an official system for keeping track of her new jewelry business. But how should she start - and what about her collection of supplies dating back to 2002? See my recommendations for Linda - and add your own suggestions.




2. A Successful Open House Jewelry Party
   After an excitingly successful open house jewelry party, Paula Beal shares her tips.




3. Marketing Your Unique Jewelry in Gift Shops
   Jean Forman's unique jewelry is in two gift shops, thanks to this simple way she approached the shopkeepers.




4. The Difficulty of Selling Jewelry
   Isabela from Spain says, "My biggest problem is marketing. I do not like to sell - it is so difficult for me to sell my creations." See my tips for Isabela, and add your own suggestions.




5. Successful Selling of Your Unique Jewelry
   A year after starting her jewelry business, Lina Zielinski shares the tips and secrets she's discovered for selling jewelry successfully.




6. "I Lost Trust in My Own Forces"
   Olga from Moldova makes beautiful jewelry and is full of creative ideas - but feels disheartened by copycats, slow sales, and a lack of time to work on her business. See Nupur's helpful ideas for Olga, and add your own comments.




7. New Life for an Old Silverware Chest
   Don't miss Nancy V's beautifully repurposed thrift-shop find - which now has a new life displaying special pieces of jewelry!




8. Lilas
   See this lovely wirework jewelry set by Killasutti from Peru - and notice how her photo's purple border brings out the delicate colors in her work. Also, you can practice your Spanish by reading the lovely comments posted below her article.

Sell your jewelry to customers who are VERY willing to buy your unique handcrafted pieces - again and again. This is the main way I sell my own jewelry now.

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I've always needed a small space of my own, where the rest of the world doesn't intrude, for dreaming and imagining.

Stories, ideas, and creativity bloom and grow year-round in a space that nurtures possibilities.

In some of the places I've lived, I have been lucky enough to actually have a small nook that was completely my own, where I could go sometimes to enjoy solitude and my imagination without the "real world" creeping in.

Whenever I haven't had a space like this at home, I create a microcosm of it with a small "treasure box".

As long as I can remember, I've loved interesting little boxes. They're secret spaces where you can store tiny things that spark your imagination with the possibilities they hold. And when the lid is closed, all the possibilities inside stay secret.

I still have one of my first little secret boxes, which still holds the original treasures I put in it nearly 40 years ago - things like a tiny acorn from a trip to the mountains; a fragment of seashell with a lovely natural cloudscape painted by Nature on the inside; a caged bead from a broken necklace; a little silver sleigh bell; a scrap of paper with a drawing of a mouse.

These things thrilled me with their possibilities when I first found them and put them in this box as a child.

I wondered . . . Why was the bead caged? How had the little sleigh bell gotten from the North Pole to the place where I had found it? The seashell fragment's cloudscape was a secret ticket for flying, and the mouse drawn on the paper scrap lived an adventurous life that I imagined for him.

When I was a little girl, this tiny box was like the wardrobe-cupboard that leads to Narnia. Just open it and step into the magic land.

Secret spaces, found treasures, and imagination go hand-in-hand.

Jewelry artist Pauline Salvucci's memories of her Aunt Rhetta's treasure closet reminded me of a beloved "imagination space" I discovered many years ago at a relative's house:

When I was 6, my family made a week-long visit to my bachelor uncle in California. He lived in a tiny apartment that had the first walk-in closet I had ever seen. The closet was quite small and nearly empty, but how I loved it!

Whenever we were in my uncle's apartment that week, after a day of sightseeing or going to the beach, I lived in that closet - very happily coloring, reading, daydreaming, and arranging my newly-collected seashells and souvenirs. For me, it was a magical, just-my-size realm, full of possibilities.

"Possibilities" are one of the most inspiring things I know of. They're what put the element of excitement in things like a blank journal, a trip to a place you've never been, a new book by your favorite author, or a new batch of jewelry supplies.

Possibilities spark imagination, and imagination is an essential element of creative inspiration.

Honor your imagination with a small, secret space of your own - whether it's an unused nook, a porch swing, or a treasure box.

The "possibilities" are endless!

Today's neat site is Ballistic Fashions fine crafted bullet jewelry.

David Stevens creates earrings, pins, tie-tacs, bolo ties, key rings, and more - using bullets as a focal component. He even offers lovely chandelier earrings with three bullets dangling at the bottom. His customers rave about his work.

I don't think it would have ever occurred to me to use bullets in jewelry, but David's designs are very elegant and definitely appeal to a niche market.

No matter how you sell your jewelry online, you have to do your own marketing if you want to make sales.

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