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Selling Sea Glass Jewelry Online

If you’re interested in selling sea glass jewelry online, you may want to hop over to see How to Sell Jewelry Online: Sea Glass Jewelry – a post I just wrote for the Odyssey Sea Glass website. The lovely jewelry photos in the article (and the one here, above) are not mine – they were [...]

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Sterling Silver – Only For The Rich?

by Sam Ryder of NexusMaille The price of silver has just skyrocketed in the past few weeks: Looking at the price per gram in which I purchase my supplies, I calculated that if it were to continue at this rate, a bracelet made at the end of the year will cost $50 more in raw [...]

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The Inventor’s Fortune Up for Grabs

In 1913 Suzanne Beyer’s great-uncle, Art Hadley, invented the expansion bracelet – a jewelry device that revolutionized the modern watchband. Although he was a bit of a family “black sheep”, his invention and jewelry company netted a fortune which he left to his children after his death. But nearly a century after his expansion bracelet [...]

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Have a Blessed Day

Where I live, at the end of a phone call or conversation people often say “Have a blessed day!” It’s always spoken wholeheartedly – the person who says it truly desires that your day will be blessed, regardless of their spirituality or yours. And you know what?  I always feel very blessed after hearing it. [...]

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Biker Chic Jewelry

In the latest issue of my Jewelry Business Success News ezine, we talked about 2011 fashion trends and how you might incorporate them in your jewelry designs. I mentioned that one of the clothing trends for this year is “biker chic” – which takes traditional motorcyclist styles and gives them a new fashionista twist. Maryanne [...]

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Jewelry Fundraiser – Please Help Spread the Word

Urgent – please help spread the word on your blog, Twitter, Facebook, or whatever works best for you – about Heidi’s Jewels for Jen fundraiser. Who is Jen? Jennifer Salandy, a 37-year-old mother of three young children, died on Christmas Day 2010 following a tragic accident on December 24. An education trust fund was established [...]

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Rising Above Copycats

Collage and mixed-media artist Shelley Lane Kommers had the unpleasant surprise of happening across an Etsy shop that had blatantly copied her own Etsy business and products. See Shelley’s blog post, Rising Above the Copycats, on how the discovery of her imitator gave Shelley insights into her own precious gifts.

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