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WOW, Mary - looks like you are off and running! Great job!!
Carol in SLC New JustBeads auctions:
I think they look very nice and you have a good "eye". My only wish is that I could see them better, so that I could appreciate the detail. Could you set it up so that if you clicked on the picture you would go to a full-screen version? Barbara Dream Master
"We've got two lives, one we're given, the other one we make." Mary Chapin Carpenter
Laura
Thank you all for the great feedback! I will try to set it up so the image could be clicked and then appear larger - good idea! As for the price - you really think I could go higher? Guess I'll try and see what happens. And as for description....well.....being new, they're all just pretty beads to me! LOL Guess I will have to learn some names and sizes of things so I can describe them better. Thanks for aiming me in the right direction!
Mary Close To My Heart Consultant
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.com (MBryt1) :
]you ]really think I could go higher? Guess I'll try and see what happens.
YES!
]And as ]for description....well.....being new, they're all just pretty beads to me!
well, are they Czech? Swarovski? glass? plastic? faceted? fire-polished? see what i mean?
and i'm so glad i didn't offend you! it DOES look pretty!
----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)
Ahhhh that kind of description I can do. Thanks for the suggestions!
Mary Close To My Heart Consultant
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.com (MBryt1) :
]Ahhhh that kind of description I can do. Thanks for the suggestions!
**grin** any time.----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 20:44:48 -0400, laura wrote (in message ):
You page isn't loading completely for me, so I cannot comment on the quality of your pieces. However, since I've never let the fact that I am clueless keep me silent before, I have some suggestions:
For each piece, write a little paragraph that tells a story about the piece. I title all my pieces, even though I don't sell them, and I write a little blurb about the materials and methods used in making them. I do that because my audience isn't prospective buyers, but fellow beaders, and I'm sharing techniques and design ideas.
Take this necklace, for example:
------------------------ Now see what I say when I'm writing about the same piece with a marketing focus:
Autumn Extravaganza
Can there be no more beautiful season than the autumn, crunching through a carpet of fallen leaves, picking a ripe red apple and feeling the crisp breeze on a sparkling morning. If a beautiful September morning makes you smile, this necklace was made for you. Lavish use of locally made artisan lampwork beads, combined with the luxury of cider colored citrine rondelles, surround your neck with the loveliest tones in Mother Nature's Autumn pallette. This unique handmade necklace glimmers with geniune Bali silver, like the sharp glow of frost in the moonlight.
At twenty-two inches long, this piece drapes beautifully below the neckline of all your favorite fall sweaters and blouses, and the cheery punch of color will coordinate with nearly every item in your cool weather wardrobe. Indulge yourself with this necklace and smile, because you know that even the warming fire in the fireplace isn't half as intriguing as you are.
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Yep, I was writing about the same piece both times. But when I'm selling to the public, I'm selling the sizzle, not the steak. I want the woman who wears this necklace to feel special, beautiful and unique. I've given her a pretty mental picture that she can imagine herself in, and how my necklace fits in with that dream.
I'm trying to help her taking a weekend in Vermont during foliage season, looking country but still glam in my necklace as a Golden Retreiver romps along beside her, and she holds hands with her handsome, successful, sensitive man. She knows that she's not going to get that anytime soon, but I'm selling her the feeling that the romantic Vermont weekend is right out there, in the form of a necklace.
For more examples, the best place out there is Coldwater Creek. Get one of their catalogs and read the descriptions they attach to each item, especially the jewelry. Those folks can make plastic turquoise on a shoe lace sound like something I would kill to buy!
My two cents,
Kathy N-V
This may be one place it pays to 'act as if' you had more confidence and sizzle first to encourage other people's positive attention, instead of waiting for positive attention to make you willing to sizzle.
One thing you can count on ... if you keep making things and looking at them to see how well they 'work', and make modifications to get them to work better in the next piece -- those pieces can't help but get better.
But that doesn't mean that what you do now isn't good enough to have confidence about.
Just as a way to help your customer make a decision about specific pieces, I would post the length -- especially of the strung pieces. (Memory wire doesn't really have the same 'sizing' requirements.)
Helps people get an idea if a bracelet will be too short to go around their wrist, or will fall off completely once it is clasped. And with necklaces, folks who buy jewelry tend to know what lengths look good on them, or with particular outfits or necklines.
Deirdre
I did think of that and just need to dig out the tape measure. Thanks for reminding me.
Mary Close To My Heart Consultant
If your bracelet (or choker) is anything other than seed beads/flat, just indicating the length will not do-- you need to indicate the CIRCUMFERNCE it will go around. My "woolie worms" can be up to 9" long-- but fit 6 1/2 to 7". I got a piece of PVC pipe to use as a "fitting test"-- it's a 2" diameter pipe (interior measurement) that is 7" around. There is also some sort of formula in the FMG catalog on how to determine "how long" a bracelet needs to be, but it assumes that you are using round beads, all the same size. Kaytee "Simplexities" on
Good point.
Deirdre
The beads are polyclay and that one is made by Koree who sells on JustBeads.
Tina
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