Thank You

I am back from the Show and beginning to scribble down my thoughts. Top of the list is to thank all of you who visited our booth ~Glass0Beads~ and shared their jewellery and their lives with us.
And for those who have taken the time to visit me here and leave their comments ~ thank you.
I [...]

FLASH – My Christmas Gift

I got my Christmas present early this year. And it’s just what I wanted.
In September this year I joined a directory of shops where only handmade items could be listed. My shop is Glass0Beads~- the 0 is a number, not a letter o. I added some of my glass bead artisan jewellery on the site. [...]

Lampwork and Beads

Depressed? or happy?
Last week my ties with Stores OnLine, my Lampwork and Beads glass bead artisan jewellery website host, were severed.
What I know now is significantly more than what I knew when I first signed on with Stores OnLine. I had found Stores OnLine lacking more and more as time went on. It’s only my [...]

Great News – About Playing for Change

I promised myself I would write something in each of my blogs before I opened any of my e-mails. As always, I opened my emails first. But this time I’m glad I followed my usual pattern of morning coffee and emails. This time I found an email from ‘Playing for Change.’
That’s one of the [...]

Great News – eSMArties

MY FIRST ENTRY

There’s a new shop in town: the Etsy eSMArts boutique of hand crafted items.

Memories

Memory wire embellished with hearts, glass beads, and coiled wire beads: this is my first offering in a new shop at Etsy.com: the eSMArts Boutique.
At the Etsy gallery, where everything is handcrafted, a new boutique can be found. It is [...]

GREAT NEWS – Almost Spring Toronto Bead Oasis Show, 2009

Okay. It’s official. I AM EXCITED!!   Excited !!!I picked out my booth at the ‘Almost Spring’ Toronto Bead Show, 2009.
I am planning and researching and building up inventory and … The list goes on.
This is my ‘Almost First’ show. I want to learn from others’ experiences as much as I can first.  Has anybody got [...]

Great News – Play for Change

A ‘busker’ is a street performer, paid in nickels and dimes. They ‘play for change.’
Change: noun, alteration; substitution of one for another (from Oxford English Dictionary).
I was listening to Bill Moyers Journal today, Sunday, October 26, 2008. I was entertained by James K Galbraith, author of The Predator State. How a propos to today’s monetary crisis.
Following [...]

Around Town – Gift Giving and Your Budget

It’s that crazy time of year again when people forget their manners and spend way too much money. The buying of gifts at Christmas is meant to follow in the footsteps of the 3 Magi who brought gifts precious gifts to the baby, Jesus.
What’s so bad this year is the economy. Both Canada and the [...]

About Town – Handmade Jewellery

Look everybody and see what I’ve found!
 
Vanessa Glavac is a young entrepreneur who found a niche market; producing videos of basic techniques in beading. She breaks down each technique into easy to follow steps and, before you know it, you are creating your own artisan jewellery. Once you have these basic techniques you can do [...]

Great News – Bead Oasis Show

It’s here!!  It’s here!!  It’s here!!    SEPTEMBER 19 – 21, 2008
I am SOOOOOOO excited.  I have been at every one of the Toronto Oasis Bead Shows since they started here and every time, both Spring and Fall shows, the Toronto edition gets bigger and bigger.  The artists who sell their pieces of jewellery [...]

Fashion vs Costume Jewelry

Thanks for the vote of confidence:  I always like to hear I’ve done well.  I struggle with these 2 words: fashion, costume.  Does my e-jewelry store offer 1 or the other?  I think maybe I sell both:  the simple glass bead jewelry would be the fashion jewelry – not as expensive and certainly not as [...]