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It's jewellery business week at the London Jewellery School and I have written a few blog posts for them. This is a reblog of one, the original can be found here They are running a discount on their business courses this week, 20% off bookings made by 28th February (bookings can be made on any available course for the whole of 2015). For the discount email or phone One of my absolute favourite things is to wake up and find I’ve made a sale in my sleep! It is so satisfying. The options for selling your work, however, can be a bit daunting so here is a brief guide to selling jewellery online. Firstly, you need to decide on your approach. I’m just starting out If you want to test the waters and see how your jewellery sells I would recommend starting out selling through a website like etsy , folksy , misi , dawanda These sites have differing costs and take a percentage of your sales so you will need to research which is best for you. Pros Cons Cheap...

At the weekend I went to visit my lovely friend Claire who has a folksy shop called Contemporary Crafts . She is great at sewing (which is not one of my strong points!) and had said she could help me make some curtains. I had bought a duvet cover in the sales (which works well for curtains as you get a lot of material for the money) so I took it round to her house to see what we could do. The Pied a Terre duvet cover I bought from House of Fraser We had to cut the duvet in half (Claire's advice is to buy two single duvet covers as this would solve the need to do this. Depending on your window size obviously). We then had to pin and sew each curtain together and then sew the curtain tape into the top. I'm using the word we rather liberally! I mostly stood around and drunk tea. I did a bit of pinning. And a bit of ironing. And a bit of measuring. Claire did all the sewing and important stuff! And here they are in my living room! I'm really pleased with the...

I am a tutor at the London Jewellery School , teaching on the PR for your Jewellery Business course . The class has been really popular and I'm proud to say there have been some very positive comments from the students that have already attended. In fact, the LJS have already added an extra date to the calendar because of interest from jewellery entrepreneurs. The class runs for 2.5 hours and covers how to promote your jewellery business using a variety of methods (mostly free!) including twitter, blogs, facebook etc. The dates that are currently scheduled for this year are Monday 28th May Tuesday 24th July Friday 26th October Monday 3rd December The class runs from 6.30-9pm on the above dates. For more information please click here I wrote this blog post for the LJS blog about setting up a jewellery business  with some hints and tips for setting up a jewellery business cheaply. I'm pleased to say that the blog post was published on the London Jewellery School blog t...

I've been back to beading this weekend. I got a commission to make a licorice allsort necklace and some earrings which I needed to have done by Monday as they are for a birthday. I dug out all of my beads and got started and then found loads of beads that really needed to be used up! So, I now have this gorgeous pink sweetie bracelet, love hearts earrings and a jelly babies charm bracelet listed in my folksy shop!    http://www.folksy.com/shops/lightboat There wasn't a lot of sunlight when we did the photos so I may have to take them again, particularly the love hearts ones as the photos don't really do them justice. I found this great blog post on making your own light box so I will be having a go at this as soon as I get a good-sized box (I have been a bit over zealous with the recycling clearly!) http://www.afterninetofive.net/diy-light-box/ I'd better get some beading practice in again anyway as I am doing a trial to teach a beginners class in March! Shoul...

Here is a fabulous canvas of me and my cat for sale on Folksy! http://www.folksy.com/items/1376341-Snooze?shop=yes