Deep Sea Collection - Mermaid

Tuesday, March 10, 2009


















Beautiful Labradorite & lots opals

Metal Turquoise

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Three strings metal colour cover copper beads, with natural turquoises. Loaded.



















Matching bracelet & earrings:

Deep Sea Collection - Fire

Red-est natural coral beads.

































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Deep Sea Collection - Heaven

White coral beads, about 1/4 inch per bead.

Necklace holds a large clear quarz as pendant.

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Bracelet uses sterling silver as parts.
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For Jackie

...'s birthday.

Sorry for the "dark" pictures...the sun has gone down at the time...

Marketing Thinking

Monday, March 2, 2009

I ran into my favourite Marketing teacher today; and realized that I have forgotten how much I enjoy thinking like a marketer before.

I can tell our conversation would go like this: what is the statement of your business? What is your price strategy? Who are your target audiences? What do you see yourself in 3 years?

Oww, I can't believe that I haven't thought about these. However, I think I have thought about the statement of my business a little bit - I want to make things that make women feel good of themselves. Is that accurate enough? I'm sure I'll need to work on that. I know I feel good when I make things. It's the accomplishment that drives me going everyday.

My price strategy is based on: making it the simplest for both me and my buyers. Of course it has to be fair. I now have basically 5 range of prices for each category. And I'll focus on them. It's straight forward and easy to place the items. Some items I might "lose" a few bulks, but who cares; because I'm pretty sure on some other items, I'll make those few bulks back. It's more important to make my customers happy, than frustrate them. It's also more important to make their lives easier, than complicate them.

I make things that are very feminine. Of course, my focus customers would be trendy, dare to try new things, love beautiful things, adore beautiful things, and last but not least, value the hard work behind those beautiful things.

About the longer-term of plan - I would like to see myself going into a wider range of jewellery making; more independable; and perhaps more focus on what I do. This handmade jewellery business isn't unpopular. There are millions out there just like me. I want to differentiate mine from them - create my own purple cow in this business.

You know I just made the above "conversation" up, right? But thoughts stay.

A little gift














For Leslie.
This picture was taken "kinda" by accident, but I like it and I'm going to set it as wall paper for a little while.


For Allison.
It's a set, if you can tell...

































For Ashley - Copper balls.