R.T.S. -- READY to SHIP - Get Your Etsy Shop Ready for the Holidays NOW! 77 DAYs Until Christmas.

Oh boy, Christmas is coming!

Black Friday

Ready to Ship Department

at Your Daily Jewels

I don't know about you other Etsy sellers, but I was caught  very un-prepared for last year's holiday season. I am not complaining, mind you, but it was crazy! And it started in October.  I had very unexpectedly high sales numbers and stress.


I used this image last year, laughing. But it was truly how I felt. It was a real case of 'be careful what you wish for". Well, it is Oct. 8th and now Etsy has those snazzy stats that compare you to where you were last year this time. Well, apparently,  if early indicators mean anything, this could be a very different  (not in a good way) holiday sales season (filing nails, with feet up). 

Black Friday Cyber Monday Shoppers

Many of you know I make mostly custom items  so it is not that easy to have RTS items stocked. But I started in beading and wire-wrapping and I miss making those items! So, I  spent most of September having so much fun, going back to the basics and filling my shop with the items that are ready to go. Now that they are made, I just have to list them. Ugg.


Here are some of my goodies in my RTS department. I have fifty more things RTL (ready to list). Anyone looking for part time work!

I hope its your year to be pleasantly surprised by more business than you can handle! I look forward to all the support and love of the Etsy community throughout another holiday season. I wouldn't want to do it without you, especially my JETS! (The Jewelry on Etsy Team) (Search "Jetteam" on Etsy - no quotation marks - for 120 of Etsy's premier Jewelers)

Thanks for reading and visiting!

It's Here! My New Shop: Silver Initial Jewelry! on Etsy.Com

 

For all of your silver initial, monogram, and wax seal jewelry needs

The Color Wheel Goes 'Round: Mandarin and Mint

"To design" is to plan the look or the function of something prior to making it; both equally important in many cases.
The term "Fashion" was once solely the vernacular of the "fashion world". But today, fashion is broadly used as a prevailing style or the popular look of the moment. It applies not just to apparel but to furniture and home design, jewelry, architecture, art, film, and virtually all of the creative industries and arts. Thus, trends appear in all of the above mentioned arts, just as they do in fashion. Do the trends follow fashion? Does Fashion follow other arts? One thing they all have in common is the color wheel. And it is often a common thread  visible in many of the arts industries from season to season.

SA Studio

HGWjewelrydesigns

Designs by Cher

Trace Designs

Your Daily Jewels

Willow Creek Jewelry

Thanks for reading,

Norah

Look for any of this beautiful jewelry and more on Etsy.com. Search "Jetteam green" "Jetteam orange" "jetteam mint" etc. 

To see more lovely interior design to drool over, visit JossandMain.

Holiday Features

The sale is over but more sales are coming! Meanwhile, I have been featured in several blogs lately and I want to share them with you. In the next few weeks I will also be sharing some of my favorite finds for the holidays here on my blog.

Take a peak at the feature  on Your Daily Jewels in this fantastic Indie-finds blog (and click on the link for more info to read an in depth article the author did with me last summer)

Be back later!
Thanks for reading,
Norah

The JET Holiday Challenge! Time to VOTE!

The JETS (Jewelry on Etsy Team, of which I am a team leader) is holding a holiday challenge. It is a jewelry contest among members, but just for voting you can win prizes. And the prizes are jewelry! And there are 31 prizes!

Take a peek and vote! (for me, preferably) and

Click to vote:

or visit:
http://jewelryonetsyteam.blogspot.com/2011/11/jet-holiday-challenge-time-to-vote.html

Thanks!

Coming soon!

My new line of 99% pure silver jewelry made from precious metal clay is in the works.

I cannot say enough great things about my three day PMC Connection course taught by artist, Vera Lightstone in her NYC loft. Every minute of the days was filled with learning, doing, and laughing!  And you get to go home with 8 - 10 finished pieces! If three days is too much, she offers a two day course as well. I guarantee you will be hooked, like me. It is good to know she offers lots of advanced courses, as well.

W.39th Street

Carla, Vera's Assistant and a Student's Best Friend

Blob of Clay - Not Very Exciting

Here is a piece I made on the first day! Very exciting!

 

There are many more pieces to come! I have been busy playing with clay, now I have to get new pieces photographed to show you

About PMC, from http://www.pmcguild.com/

• PMC is an amazingly plastic and versatile material. It can be shaped by hand, folded, molded, extruded and painted on another surface.
• PMC can be endlessly textured and takes on microscopically fine definition.
• PMC can be mixed with ceramic powders and oxides to assume new shades of color and a rougher texture.
• PMC can be fired with stones and ceramics. It can be glazed and enameled.
• PMC fits a wide range of artistic visions but not all. It compliments but does not displace traditional jewelry methods.

Basically, you have this little lump of clay that you can shape and mold in a million ways.  The clay is fine particles of recycled silver mixed with a binder that turns it into clay. The binder burns off and you are left with shining, strong, almost pure silver. The final result is 99.9% pure, recycled silver, as compared to sterling which is 92.5% pure. So far, I have only used Silver, but the clay comes in brass, copper, and gold formations too.

You can play with your hands; you can use all of your clay-making tools on it, and then finish it with all of your silversmithing tools.  You can combine it with your beading and wireworking projects.

It can be fired in a kiln, but before making that investment, you can torch it with a simple kitchen torch. You know, the kind you use for Creme Brulee. You will not believe your beginner results!

Feel free to ask me any questions you have and check back here and at my Etsy Shops, Rustic Rock Jewelry and Your Daily Jewels,  for more creations.

(Did I mention that PJClarke retired and  is now Rustic Rock Jewelry)

Thanks for reading,

Norah