HUGE listing influx and sale

I am fighting the sinus infection from heck right now, and am pretty much home and bed bound, but whenever I feel up for it I am taking pictures, editing them, and listing all of the jewelry I made and have in my house. There are a lot of items never seen online before, because they are from my craft shows last summer and never got listed due to the move.

I will try to list at least a few items every day, with the goal of having plenty for customers to choose from come the holiday shopping season.

I am also offering some specials for my loyal blog readers: 

Mention this blog in your checkout comments, and I will give you 10% off and free shipping (in the USA and Canada, or 50% off shipping outside of the US and Canada) on your entire purchase, except on BLACK FRIDAY.

On Black Friday, I will give you 25% off and the same shipping deal.

Website Woes

I have been spending DAYS trying to figure out how to best organize and load up my website. I finally just gave up and added some items. I'm posting a few pictures here so you can see them, because I still feel like the site is hard to navigate.

Raw Aquamarine Spiral pendant. Gorgeous, isn't it?

Green Maple Keychain.

Green aventurine Copper wrapped Pendant.

Blue glass pearl Wire wrapped ring

Blue Dyed marble Water Sign pendant

All of these are available at my website, www.coquiainjelfire.com

I love them, but the website is annoying me. Suggestions are welcome!

Valentine's Day Hearts!!

Gorgeous Pink Celtic Heart Keychain
For that woman in your life who just doesn't wear that much jewelry. I love this keychain. It's a good thing I have a keychain I love, otherwise, this one would never have gone on sale. It's so hard to list things sometimes, since I purposely make things I love!

Tangerine Hearts Earrings and Pendant Set

I love this earring design! Every once in a while, I come up with something amazing. Like my purple leaves set, this is a gorgeous copper swirl earring and pendant set. I love that this is enameled copper, so no worries about metal allergies, and I figured out how to best utilise my front-to-back drilled beads! Gorgeous!

More heart stuff soon! I have been focusing too much on my new pendants!

Taking pictures....

Taking pictures so they showcase my work has got to be the part I dislike the most about selling online. I could spend all day every day creating new and interesting pieces of jewelry. But takin ggood pictures of them? Gah!!

My son was home sick from school today, and every time I tried tot ake a picture, he chose that time to run into the room and "need" something. Even when I thought he was sleeping or watching a movie. I never got the FIRST thing I was photographing pictured.

Thank goodness his cough is finished. Now I shoudl be able to get some pictures of the new stuff I finished and get it listed.

Here's some coming attractions:

Onyx and Copper bead wrapped Cuff bracelet (A new favorite)
New design leaf and heart copper long hook earrings
All new design: bead-on-a-wire pendants
and so much more!!

I'll do my best to get lots of pictures up tomorrow after I get home from the post office!!

Getting things done...Not an easy thing to do!

As I've focused more and more on this business being a "BUSINESS",a sopposed top a hobby, I have found out some interesting things. First and foremost: Murphy's Law rules at my house. Anytime anything NEEDS to get done, that's when something catastrophic is going to happen to keep it from happening. NEED to get to the post office? No worries, the sky will dump 6 inches of snow instead of the predicted dusting. NEED to finish that highly intricate ring before the post office closes, so it can go out TODAY? How man times do you think you'll screw it up? This works for the husband (HHBG), and myself.

As one of my resolutions going into this new year was to get something done EVERY DAY, I have found myself making a number of "assembled" items. Some days, it's 5 minutes before I collapse of exhaustion, and I am putting together a keychain and wondering where my day went. Yet, other days, I somehow find the time to spend 2 hours making a tree or wrapping up an intricate ring. I wonder why this is?

One thing I HAVE found is, as I have found myself short on time, I am getting quicker at things that I apparently just needed practice on. Like making wire wrapped bead links (Or whatever they're officially called). The first time I made my own "chain" of beads all on their own little wire wrapped link, it took me HOURS! Literally. It was almost 4 hours start to finish to make one necklace. I finished and sat there wondering HOW people do it. FOUR HOURS!!

The next time I made a "chain", it only took me three hours. That's a 25% reduction in time. Sweet. Now this last time I worked on links, I didn't make a whole necklace chain, I did some single bead earrings and a keychain. All told, it was 7 bead-links. I did everything in about 20 minutes! Wahoo! I wasn't rushing, and they look just as good as the ones that took forever.

Check the new things out!!

I think they look pretty darn good! It's pretty hard to sell the froggie pieces. I love me some frogs. I named my alter ego and jewelry making self after frogs! I even have frog cabinet and drawer pulls in my kitchen.

Ok, enough crazy non-linear posting. Enjoy, and seeya soon!!