Shutting down

After the need to clarify about a hundred times, I have come to the difficult conclusion that it was necessary to shut down the last post.

I don't think I have ever removed a post from this blog...but after the comments here and on the forum and in email, it is clear to me that I didn't express myself properly or accurately or something.

And this was causing me stress.

And I'm not a big fan of stress.

Not to mention I felt like I asked for thoughts and then didn't want to hear them - which wasn't the case at all !

When people began talking about low-balling and undercutting I knew my point hadn't come across - since that is not at all what I meant.

So, rather than re-explain a hundred times over I decided to save myself the stress and remove the post.

If I want to do something nice for my customers, I will.

If I want to give away what I make, I will.

Similar to Alan Revere's Adorn America philosophy perhaps.

I've never been mainstream, probably never will be.

And with all of that in mind, I think I'll give away something right now!

Just comment here, on the blog, and then we'll work together to create a custom piece JUST FOR YOU.

YAY.

Period.

And Amen.

:)

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This is what happens

when you give your kids your camera so they can take pictures of the beautiful rainbow in WV.



funny kids

I'm caught in a trap!

I can't back out out

cuz I'll trip over too much jewelry baby!




Trip over it because its spread all over the living room at the moment.

In the past I have not devoted much time at all to market, sell, photograph, etc

and now I can hardly see my way out - I'm caught in a trap!







It is time to dig myself out.






Thus commences the photographing





and measuring





and descripting (yea, not a word - I like to make up words)




and uploading. (and cropping and cussing and crying)




Last night it was photographs. And I barely scratched the surface.




I should have snapped a photo of the living room floor - - -

where I was until a little after midnight.

oy.




Unfortunately, since I am using a new photo setup, it is taking me a while to find the best positioning of everything -

lights, jewelry, camera......surface.

The whole nine yards.




I think I got some decent shots last night, I just wish I had a big enough space to put the box up off the floor so I wasn't alternating between kneeling, sitting, and being prostrate in front of the box!

I was REALLY sore when I lifted my tookus off the floor after a couple of hours of that nonsense.

Hopefully I will have some of these items available online in the next day or two.

@ doxallo.com

Its nice that most of my work was all cleaned up for the show I just did - made taking pictures that much easier.

Speaking of which, back to the evolution of my show booth. . .. I did remember to take a few booth shots.

Day 1 of WV show - too hot for all the sidewalls.



Day 2 - switched things up a bit on the tables. Liked this better.



If you had asked me two weeks ago, I would have been very happy with this booth set up.

After seeing some of the booths I saw at the two shows I've done the past two weeks......

Ummm, not so much so happy anymore.

So this is something I will begin working on late summer.

An overhaul of my new booth, to be an even newer-er booth. :)

Stay tuned for more jewelry listings (have a date with the living room floor again tonight)
and for the booth redesign!

~Janice