I am super excited about the new sparkly beads and cabinet knobs I made this week and have for sale on my web site!
I've been working on the knobs in my head for about a year now. Sure I've done a few over the past nine months but nothing that has really got me excited until now. I am sooo in love with these knobs I can't even begin to tell you how happy and smiley they make me!
And these magnificent sparkly new beads are really great too! I do want to do a bit of raised stringer work or something contrasting on the next one's I do, but I was fearful of over doing them - as can happen so easily with dichroic glass.
I'd love for you to go see them! Thanks a billion!
I've been meaning to mention a couple things to you, Cindy.
The first is how very pleased I am with the bead I got from you. It's bigger than I expected, but didn't have the problems I often associate with big beads. It's fairly simple without a great weight of detail that often makes beads too big, too messy, too fussy. But with plenty going on subtly so that it's not, you know, same only bigger. That's quite a balancing act. (Michael Barley's beads are like that too).
The other thing is about your big True Blue auction you did with JC. I expected the winning bid to be much higher. And I also had wished I could bid on just a couple beads, a turquoise bead and classic blue moon in particular. So I was sorry about that auction for a couple reasons.
And at the time I was still smarting a little over a very different auction. A sensitive issue, because I don't want to complain. A bead maker was in trouble and Kim Nealy set up an auction of items sent to her for the purpose. Took a lot of excellent photos, and did a lot of work. The necklace I sent in cost at least $60 in parts, and more like $100 to replacement the material. The set of 3 necklaces was won for about $175.
I'm not complaining (especially about Kim's generous work), but I wish someone had had the chance to choose to bid on my work and get only what they wanted -- for whatever the price. And I felt that way about your big auction too. That someone was getting a great deal, but would not value the particular bead as much as I would have (theoretically), that some wonderful beads would just be "extras". And also that it was putting the auction into a sort of category of a wholesale lot, mostly available to shops instead of individuals.
I wonder what others have experienced either buying or selling larger lots. (Not really counting "orphans" where you expect to be dealing with extras).
Thanks for the kind words about my beads and for sharing your opions. I agree sometimes a big auction may not be the way to go, especially if it is a bunch of different beads that don't necessarily go together...very different from a set of orphans or a big set of matching beads.
To be honest, I'm struggling a lot right now with what I'm even doing trying to make a go of this. I have put my family in a rough finanacial position for sometime now and now I can't even afford my ebay fees so I can't even try to make more money...it's a hard road and I'm never sure what will sell, how much to price stuff at...etc...
sorry to vent tina, you just caught me right in the middle of a hard night...
Cindy
Christ> I've been meaning to mention a couple things to you, Cindy.
Cindy, you are a very talented beadmaker and I hope you have the leeway to perservere, because with your skills you CAN make a living at this... a decent one, even. I wish I could help you somehow. The only thing I can suggest is pairing your gorgeous focals with some accent beads... even single-color spacers... to boost sales. And if you ever get to a point where you can... I hope you do... please consider taking out a print ad. It made a huge difference for me.
I love your work, and I love your posts. Your goodness shines through. Hang in there.
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