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amazon_syren) wrote2009-09-07 07:48 am
amazon_syren) wrote2009-09-07 07:48 am
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Crafty? WhyYes! :-)
Continuing with morning pages as Week Two begins. YAY!
In other news: There are a tonne of balloons outside, so it must be ballon-festival day! :-)
Alos: I got up at about 6:30 this morning (more fool me) because I couldn't sleep, and made a pair of earringsinstead of before moping around on the computer. :-)
I stopped off at Sassy Bead yesterday and picked up yellow 4mm balls (some sort of jasper, I think) and "gold stone"[1] chips.
This is one of those times when I wish I had a camera. I made pride earrings (FINALLY) out of semi-precious stones and gold findings.
They are long (three inches from top to tip, maybe?) and slender and elegant without being too refined. Each one is a single-strand drop ending in a gold (coloured) ash-leaf. The strand alternates between two chips of stone (~6mm together) and one gold 4mm ball, and hangs off a shepherd's-style hook.
The stones are:
Red shell (dyed)
gold stone
butter amber
aventurine (green)
turquoise
lapis lazuli
AND
amethyst.
I would love to be able to do something like this (or something slightly more elaborate give then extra surface area) my making ear-cuffs. (That way, *I* could wear them, too!)
I found a site with instructions for How to Make a Simple Ear-Cuff which I think will be helpful. (Now all I need is some heavy-gage wire and I'm set. ;-)
... I wonder if I can make something out of a really flimsey coathanger... :-)
<*plots*>
Anyway. I'm rather pleased with how the earrings turned out. This is the kind of thing I'd like to put on my Etsy shop once I get around to actually having enough stock to *put* stuff on my Etsy shop. :-)
Re: Pricing: There's about $60 of materials in those earrings.
Which isn't actually true. But the different strands of beads and the findings that went into them cost me about $60 initial-out-put, but (granted, I'd need more findings, but) I could easily get 20-30 pairs of earrings with those stones, which is where most of the money got spent.
As such, I figure that if I charge $15 for such a pair of earrings, I'm still ahead of the game 'cause I'm not trying to whole-sale them or anything.
That said, people with entrepreneurial experience? Please weigh in on this subject? :-)
- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)
[1] A combination of copper and iron pyrite, as far as I know -- somewhere between terracotta and actual orange. It'll do, though I'd have preferred carnelian or tiger-iron-jasper, I think.
In other news: There are a tonne of balloons outside, so it must be ballon-festival day! :-)
Alos: I got up at about 6:30 this morning (more fool me) because I couldn't sleep, and made a pair of earrings
I stopped off at Sassy Bead yesterday and picked up yellow 4mm balls (some sort of jasper, I think) and "gold stone"[1] chips.
This is one of those times when I wish I had a camera. I made pride earrings (FINALLY) out of semi-precious stones and gold findings.
They are long (three inches from top to tip, maybe?) and slender and elegant without being too refined. Each one is a single-strand drop ending in a gold (coloured) ash-leaf. The strand alternates between two chips of stone (~6mm together) and one gold 4mm ball, and hangs off a shepherd's-style hook.
The stones are:
Red shell (dyed)
gold stone
butter amber
aventurine (green)
turquoise
lapis lazuli
AND
amethyst.
I would love to be able to do something like this (or something slightly more elaborate give then extra surface area) my making ear-cuffs. (That way, *I* could wear them, too!)
I found a site with instructions for How to Make a Simple Ear-Cuff which I think will be helpful. (Now all I need is some heavy-gage wire and I'm set. ;-)
... I wonder if I can make something out of a really flimsey coathanger... :-)
<*plots*>
Anyway. I'm rather pleased with how the earrings turned out. This is the kind of thing I'd like to put on my Etsy shop once I get around to actually having enough stock to *put* stuff on my Etsy shop. :-)
Re: Pricing: There's about $60 of materials in those earrings.
Which isn't actually true. But the different strands of beads and the findings that went into them cost me about $60 initial-out-put, but (granted, I'd need more findings, but) I could easily get 20-30 pairs of earrings with those stones, which is where most of the money got spent.
As such, I figure that if I charge $15 for such a pair of earrings, I'm still ahead of the game 'cause I'm not trying to whole-sale them or anything.
That said, people with entrepreneurial experience? Please weigh in on this subject? :-)
- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)
[1] A combination of copper and iron pyrite, as far as I know -- somewhere between terracotta and actual orange. It'll do, though I'd have preferred carnelian or tiger-iron-jasper, I think.