Pricing

Ah, yet again that old demon pops up. I was highly frustrated last night when I went to check on my views and noticed how many views I am getting, yet I can't seem to make a sale. I ended up asking about it in the etsy forums. I was thinking my pictures still sucked (they are still too dark), my taste is bad, my shipping too high. What I was NOT expecting was : "Your prices are way too low".

People said that my prices made them wonder if there was something wrong with what I was selling that I was trying to hide! I was so surprised. My husband thinks much of my stuff is overpriced, so I usually price at a happy medium.

So, I am doing an experiment. I marked almost everything in my shop about 10% higher than usual (Some things on the high end, I just left alone). Let's see if it helps sales. I know it's a rough time of year, and the jewelry market is saturated, but it's worth a shot.

Well, off to try that ring pattern I screwed up 6 times yesterday again!

New awesome items!

Oh man! I am loving this new camera! I have been so inspired to work and list! No more concerns that, no matter how gorgeous something is, it will look like poop. Wahoo! Gee....can you tell I'm excited?

So, what have I done recently? WELL!

I have some really adorable new rings! Check out the new wrapped bead ring:

Is that not the most adorable thing ever?? I made a whole bunch of rings out of different polymer clay flower beads! They're sooooo cute! I feel like I have a garden on my finger when I am wearing them. So much fin, and they are SO light!

I also made another one of my trees! This time, I tried out gemstone chips instead of my regular round beads. Tell me what you think:

I love how the tree looks like it's bending over from the weight of the leaves! I am depating whether or not to hang a charm from the side spiral. maybe a sun or a moon.....or an apple. I'm going back and forth with myself.

I also have some new fun earrings, a new bookmark I had to convince myself to sell, a few pendants, some new gemstone rings, and so much more!! Go check it out!

Nasty weather

The absolutely horrendous weather is messing with my mind! I have a bundle of new items I want to get listed, and all kinds of things I need to take new pictures of, but the weather has been so bad, I can't get any decent pictures! GAH!! It's so dark, I have had the lights on all day while I worked, and I have huge picture windows. Bleh.

I literally have a pile of 15 new things just waiting to be photographed and listed....

Maybe it's time to try making a light box again....

What a Difference!

Wow. I never would have believed it, but what a difference a new camera and picture editing software can make! my store looks so different, and so much better! I am so excited!

Ok, off to keep creating!

New Look!

I am completetly revamping the look of my etsy site. I took a bunch of pictures today in natural indirect lighting, and spent HOURS editing the photos, cropping, and moving. I listed a few of the items today after I changed all of my sections and I am about to change my announcement.

So, now I have 6 Sections:

ArtfullyArranged Accessories: This is the accessories I made by basically assembling commercial beads and charms together with findings to "create" something.

ArtfullyArranged Jewelry: same premise as above, but jewelry. This is where my charm earrigns now can be found, along with my charm and single bead items.

Bead on a Wire: This is mostly single focal gemstones with simple wire wrapping and a sophisticated look.

BeautifullyBeadedNStrung: This is all the beaded jewelry I make. Mostly necklaces strung on accuflex.

WireWrapped Jewelry: this is my fancier wire wrapped jewelry. My trees, wrapped rings, gemstone pendants, etc.

I am excited to keep updating the look and to see where it goes from here!

New Creations!

Ok, I still have to work on my picture taking!! This is rough. I tried a hand-made light box, but to my dismay, it stinks. I need to read the manual for my camera. Jewelry is fun. Taking pictures is hard and frustrating.

I am in the process of downloading a photo editor, but here are some rough pictures of my recent creations, soon to be available in my etsy store!

This is a beautiful bracelet made from some resin foiled beads and soem gold plate beads and spacers.

This ring is interesting. It's the first one like this I ever made. I think it came out cool. a huge howlite stone wrapped in copper wire. This brings a whole new definition to "big ring"!

This is a fun yet simple little Quartz nugget pendant. I wish I could figure out how to fix this stuff. Gah. Pictures!!

If I could crop this picture, you's be able to see this gorgeous blue lace agate ring better. This was actually a HUGE mistake that I salvaged, adn I think came out really well.

I have about 5 other items, but they don't even have a single salvageable photo! gah! It's so cold outside, but I think I will brave the cold tomorrow and take a billion more pictures. But here's an idea of what I have been working on.

New Toys!!

I just got my shipment from Fire Mountain Gems! I am so excited!! I love the random grab-bags and surprise gems and focal pieces!! Now to convince myself to let things go!

I DID make something today. It was just a little ring, and my little girl claimed it. Figures. I also finished somethign that has been waiting to be finished until I got my shipment, so hypothetically, I could say I did two things today. pretty cool.

Pictures tomorrow!! Wahoo!