My goal by sunday night is to take inventory of the sellable pieces I have in the apartment (30 or so total), and then I'll set a plan for how many pendants, earings and bracelets to make by the end of the month (60 pieces will be a good inventory for the boutiques, while I get used to the business end of things).
It occured to me while exercising using my zumba game for wii (12 weight watchers activity points for 65 minutes of exercise.....that's what i'm talking about :)!!) that i'm a "plan" person. This whole "let me just saw out crazy shapes at random and just take a tally in the end of how many bracelet pieces/earings/necklaces I have" shindig isn't my style. Nopers...a plan is a good thing in my world. I'm sure that at least one pair of earings will end up being two pendants (5 of the 10 earings for city-wide open studios ended up being pendants..but let's not discuss that right now :)! Yeah...i've learned not to saw earings after i've been sawing for hours all day long).
I'm on track so far though..I'll have 3 bracelet shapes and 7 or 8 pendants sawed out by friday night. Earings are a pain for me, but once the designs are drawn I just have to saw REALLY carefully to ensure that they are identical
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Monday, April 4, 2011
To necklace or not to necklace...
(update on 4/6/2011: Decided to go with sterling silver chains. My jewelry teacher wasn't telling me that I shouldn't sell pendants on their own. She was completely not comprehending the idea of not having a pendant on a necklace..yeah, so I took that as a hint to go with chain. It was cord or chain, and I just felt that cord would cheapen the pendant. I had a mini stroke when I purchased the chains (prices have risen since I got my previous chains), but the prices will be included in the sale prices, so I just tell myself that it will be worth it.)
Debating over whether I want to sell the pendants as necklaces (40 sterling silver chains or so for the pendants) or sell them as pendants. My motivation is mainly for the ease of things for me, but i'm going to run it by my teacher tomorrow night to get her honest opinion. She sells her jewelry in boutiques, so I want her to tell me what she would do, and how she thinks shop owners would respond. If she says necklace, then it's an issue of sterling silver chains, or a silk rope/ribbon. I like the idea of silk rope or ribbon because it keeps costs down. Plus, everyone has their own preferences for chains. The only reason why a chain is good is if you are giving it is a gift.
Hmmmm............................or, maybe I will let the simple pendants have chains, but keep the really high detailed ones simply as pendants. I would attach them to a shorter piece of ribbon/rope and the shop employees can explain to people that they are pendants...I dunno. We will see.... I'm very grateful for my teacher because she has been answering my questions, and she has cleared up a lot of the unknown for me.
I'm putting thought into the chains/ribbons now because it is the one "jewelry" detail I haven't figured out yet....well, that and how to display the earings when I give them to the store...get earing card things? I'm looking forward to getting more silver this week-and my new bench pin- so I can get busy sawing. I'm hoping to make over 30 pieces (some pieces will be earings, so it will end up being more than 30). I'm going to save the sawing of the fretwork for a 5 day weekend i'm taking over easter weekend. Fretwork is fretwork, I can do one after the other like a freaking factory worker and it has no effect on me. The sawing of the main shapes/drawing of the designs/making the holes takes more time.
I'm going to saw out 4 main shapes tomorrow night at jewelry class and work on their designs.
Debating over whether I want to sell the pendants as necklaces (40 sterling silver chains or so for the pendants) or sell them as pendants. My motivation is mainly for the ease of things for me, but i'm going to run it by my teacher tomorrow night to get her honest opinion. She sells her jewelry in boutiques, so I want her to tell me what she would do, and how she thinks shop owners would respond. If she says necklace, then it's an issue of sterling silver chains, or a silk rope/ribbon. I like the idea of silk rope or ribbon because it keeps costs down. Plus, everyone has their own preferences for chains. The only reason why a chain is good is if you are giving it is a gift.
Hmmmm............................or, maybe I will let the simple pendants have chains, but keep the really high detailed ones simply as pendants. I would attach them to a shorter piece of ribbon/rope and the shop employees can explain to people that they are pendants...I dunno. We will see.... I'm very grateful for my teacher because she has been answering my questions, and she has cleared up a lot of the unknown for me.
I'm putting thought into the chains/ribbons now because it is the one "jewelry" detail I haven't figured out yet....well, that and how to display the earings when I give them to the store...get earing card things? I'm looking forward to getting more silver this week-and my new bench pin- so I can get busy sawing. I'm hoping to make over 30 pieces (some pieces will be earings, so it will end up being more than 30). I'm going to save the sawing of the fretwork for a 5 day weekend i'm taking over easter weekend. Fretwork is fretwork, I can do one after the other like a freaking factory worker and it has no effect on me. The sawing of the main shapes/drawing of the designs/making the holes takes more time.
I'm going to saw out 4 main shapes tomorrow night at jewelry class and work on their designs.
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