Pricing and Selling Handmade Jewelry – Valuing Polymer Clay Beads

Are You Feeling Like Your Stuff’s Not Worth Very Much? Then Your Customers Will Think That Too:As a bead and jewelry designer, one of the hardest things to

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Square Cube Beads | Simple and Fast to Make, But Full of Creativity

A Great Production Bead For Your Handmade Jewelry Making Projects:Sometimes instead of spending a ton of time making detailed or intricate polymer clay beads, it’s better to keep

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Etsy Shop Success Story About Polymer Clay Artist missficklemedia

Miss Fickle (aka Shannon LeVart) is Riding The Etsy Wave And Doing Quite Well For Herself:Back on July 2, 2008 I posted a chart showing the tremendous success

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Consumer Product Safety Act – Crafters Get More Time

Enforcement of child product safety testing reccomendations has been delayed for a full year.Well apparently the squeaky wheel does get the grease… at least for now! Stringent safety

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Selling Custom Beaded Lanyards | Make It, Wear It, They’ll Buy It

A Simple Strategy For Selling Your Handmade Jewelry That Works… Today, Tomorrow and Even During A Recession:I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Wear the polymer

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Simple-To-Make Polymer Clay Beads Are Often The Most Popular Ones

Creative Ideas For Marketing Your Bead Jewelry To Niche Markets:Often the most popular bead shapes or designs turn out to be the ones that are the easiest to

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Child Product Safety Law – New Legislation Affects Handmade Goods

Child Product Safety Law – New Legislation Affects Handmade Goods:Do you make handmade beads and jewelry for kids? Well as of February 20, 2009, your product may actually

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Home Jewelry Business Tips… Compliments of Thomas Jefferson

Make 2009 The Best Year Ever For Your Bead And Jewelry Venture:When business is good, it can usually be attributed to the rules and principles you live by.

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How To Make Beads | Football Beads For Making Custom Sports Jewelry

How You Hold Your Hands When Rolling Bead Shapes is Key:I actually learned how to roll the football bead when trying to make round beads. No matter how

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Why Make Polymer Clay Beads? And Jewelry and Other Arts and Crafts

Looking Back to The Great Depression of the 1930’s for Some Insights and Answers:Today’s post is about the WHY’s (instead of the How’s) of making polymer clay beads.

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