Edinburgh jeweller

Yesterday a jewellery making friend, Ann and I set up a stall in Camden Lock market , London. Camden is a very famous area for markets and as a tourist destination in general so we had been planning to see how our jewellery sold there for a while. It's been cold in the UK so the weather put us off but we finally set a date! We had to get there really early to get a pitch but we were happy to be placed in the handmade area and set ourselves up. It was a busy day and we enjoyed chatting to other stallholders and eating the yummy food! I have to admit, I did do better when I had a stall in Spitalfields but we're planning to make it a regular thing to see how it goes.

Sweetie shop jewellery by light boat jewellery , photo by Gary Ullah of craftywebsites  In 2012 I have noticed more and more interest in classes on how to use social media to promote fledgeling businesses. I've been teaching people at the London Jewellery School and at the Mary Ward Centre about how to set up an online business or an online presence for a 'bricks and mortar' business. I am also starting to teach these skills to individuals (for Crafty Websites ), charities etc. As a result of this interest I decided, along with the press officer from the London Jewellery School,  to write a series of blog posts for their  blog on preparing your jewellery business for christmas. I found it helped as a useful checklist for me and the feedback from readers is that it has been useful for others too which is fantastic. The links to the blog posts can be found below. Do you have any advice you would give jewellery makers on preparing for christmas sales? Please add ...