Back to Work!

It’s been awhile since I last posted any of my thoughts.  Sometimes I just get overwhelmed from the fatigue caused by MS and I end up just piddling all day in my studio not really doing anything.  Now I am feeling much better and ready to start blabbing again.

I was at a small Iowa city last weekend for the Atlanticfest and what a fantastic show it was.  I had no idea what to expect especially when I saw the size of the car show that was just a block away.  The good thing was that everyone had to walk past all of us to get to the car show.  Not a lot of people but they were spending money and really liked my items I had out.  I’ve even gotten customers calling the Chamber of Commerce to find out who the jewelry artist from Papillion, NE was.  Yep, that’s me.  How exciting.

Got a call yesterday canceling the fashion show.  They lost 6 models to another show so they had to cancel.  That’s okay the have Fashion Wars coming in October and I will be the only jewelry artist allowed to have a booth and again my pieces will be on the runway.  That’s 40 pieces of jewelry on the runway, in the fliers, in the print ads, and featured on their website.  All just fantastic.  Another piece of bad news is that The Shop Around the Corner will be closing on August 31st and I will have to go pick up my pieces from them.  That’s a shame because it’s a great little shop of all handmade items but they couldn’t keep it going.  I have only had my jewelry in their shop for a few weeks and have already sold two or three pieces.  Items in the Corning Center for Fine Arts continue to sell well but that should be coming to an end this fall.  Any ideas on how I can break into the local galleries that have the exact same artists in them and the artists never have to leave unless they want to.  I’ve been stopping in and visiting with the galleries but nothing seems to make a difference.

I just don’t understand why there isn’t a time frame for moving the arts in and out to refresh things and keep customers coming back to see new artists.  I also notice that the galleries have jewelry artists but for the most part they are silversmiths and I most definitely am a wire artist so all my items would not be the same as the artists already in the gallery.  Oh well I’ll keep pounding away at them and maybe I’ll finally get my foot in the door.

I have finally gotten all my inventory back in my shop on etsy, www.kljewelrydesigns.etsy.com and that took me a couple of months of taking photos and writing descriptions and pricing to get that into place.

I promise that next week I’ll have a free jewelry making tip and tutorial using my tip but for now remember that the best part of waking up is waking up!