Devine Designs Jewelry

January 29, 2009--A day of wasted time. My day started out good. I colored my hair early this morning, went to check out a farmers/fresh market. Got some good produce and stuff, but not a good place to showcase my jewelry. This is where the "not so fun" of my day began. I have a list of items that I needed to buy for this weekend's PMC WORKSHOP that I'm attending, but first wanted to check out on line where I should go to purchase them at good prices, you know to save time, well my computer got funky and I spent about 1/2 an hour trying to reboot and got nowhere. So venture out I went. I had to go to 5 different stores to locate what I needed, then spent 3 HOURS in my car stuck in traffic! There was some sort of accident (the police and fire trucks had the road closed) and may I mention ONE BLOCK FROM WHERE I LIVE. The only other way to get to our condo is to go back around to the highway and circle all around, you see we live on one side of a lake and there is no way...

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I thought today I would post a few very helpful resources;not only helpful to the jewelry artist/designer, but for anyone who has a handmade/home business. The first 2 articles are from FEST members (Florida Etsy Street Team). The first article was presented by Sarah of "Simply Sarah's" shop on Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5581651 Her article titled: "Be your own public relations rep" can be found here on her blog:http://innovativemoma.blogspot.com/2009/01/be-your-own-public-relations-rep.html The second article is by Joani of "Inspirations in Clay" http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6146078 who wrote this article titled: "Shameless plug for us little guys in a tough economy": http://inspirationsinclay.blogspot.com/2009/01/shamelss-plug-for-us-little-guys-in.html And don't forget Rena Klingenberg's "Jewelry Business Blog",who has 30 years experience in the business world; http://jewelry-business-blog.com/ for...

Well, I tried to put off blogging today until tomorrow, but I got on a roll with my blog, you know, doing updates, adding some new things, gadgets, updating sites that might not be blogging any more; just things like that. You'll have to stop back to check out "Shelfari" that I added to the bottom of my blog because I haven't worked out the kinks to start my book list. It seems I've had an account and deleted it and now cannot retrieve information to log back in. BTW: I hate my computer sometimes. It feels like I haven't made any jewelry this week, although I have. I've made a few hoop earrings to add to my wire series that I'm working on right now. Actually, I started this week on a sort of southwestern necklace combining rustic copper and brass components, gemstone beads and polymer clay beads. It was coming along rather well, since I am making all the links individually and the clasp by hand too. I put a few hours into this piece, anyway, I ran out ...

For our Etsy Blogger's Team's blog carnival this month, the choices were, "New Year's Goals for your shop" or "How you organize your taxes". It seems that so far I'm the only one who has decided to tackle the tough subject. Although I'm big on goal setting, I'm not on New Year's "type" of goals/resolutions, and that's what the title made me think of, so taxes it is! A scary subject to some, but if you're registered as a legal business, it's something we all must deal with. We have an accountant do our taxes every year, so it makes it kind of easy for us. Last year, when I knew that I would be starting a jewelry design business, I asked the accountant what we should do concerning record keeping, what was allowed as deductions and the lot. He suggested that we get a monthly bookkeeping record book. Which we did. And I keep it up to date every month. I'm good about details. A good record book will have columns and p...

This is a "glass tree". My Mom took this photo. She is a member of a photography club here. This took some prize. I thought it was really pretty. I may have to get some tips from her! Just a short post today... I've entered another jewelry contest. If you would like to support my design, please go to this site: http://vintaj.com/wpblog/?p=939 and vote for bracelet #13, which is my Queen's Ransom bracelet. And thanks for your support!