Just a Quick Chat....

I have to tell you ....I really love my customers, and gosh I learn so much from them.    Recently I was a bit lazy when listing a piece and didn't post a picture of it on a mannequin or form, the alabaster bust photos are very pretty but not a substitute.....it was hot or whatever lame excuse, the mannequin was not readily available, lame, lame, lame-out....I just didn't do it.  SO!  A very interested lady very graciously emails and asks if I can snap a quick photo of it on a neck.  Hmmmm, no cute teen girl children about, they're all in Florida, Ron's neck wouldn't do the piece justice, and my neck, well, I wanted to do that about as much as I wanted to use Ron's.  A sale is a sale though, and so I told her that I would, but if she didn't want to purchase the necklace after she saw it on my wrinkly throat, I didn't blame her.  Crossing my fingers.....I sent the gorgeous necklace on (my) wrinkly throat picture, she purchased the piece, came back a few days later and put another on hold.  Wow.  Just wow!

Why do you think they call it a mannequin??

 

I have another customer, a local lady who pops in periodically, purchases a treat for herself, something to gift someone else, offers her very intuitive opinions about what I have in the works, and off she goes.....  There are a few of these ladies all over the world now, it gives me huge warm fuzzies.  I feel good about the growth of my work, I feel great about my sales,  it has taken a long time developing.  It's a painful process to put yourself out there on the web, and I have deliberately kept my shops separate, vintage for sale is apart from my work.  Watching those numbers creep up, oh so excruciatingly slowly!  It's very personal when it's your work, and not a pair of 1950's earrings....Antique and vintage sales are important, yes, but I think you know what I mean.

A Cameo Appearance...

 

I've learned to test drive all my necklaces before offering them up for sale, it's very aggravating to have a piece that curls, crawls, flips or pulls....not good.

Yes, I have some truly wonderful customers, if any of you happen over here now, see me standing front and center applauding you? Thank and bless you for your encouragement, support and friendship! 


While I was working on this piece, I was thinking about the number of cameo's I've purchased and been gifted over the years, and next time, hope to share some of them with you. Cameo's are such a classic, and I've been working with that theme much of late.  When I get them all out in to one place, it really is quite a respectable collection.  I like collections.  The cameo below is really a nice one.  The brooch could have been repaired, but what fun would that have been?  Yes, a really nice piece.

These pieces are available on either Artfire or Etsy....and I love them both.  I think the thing with confidence (mine) is that even though I know I am not the best at what I do, I still immensely enjoy doing it!

Till next time...

moi