My First Jewelry Sale

I think I mentioned briefly in my first post that I like to make jewelry. I am pretty inexperienced, but have a lot of fun with it. There is so much to learn and it can get pretty overwhelming to want to know how to do everything I see. I kind of get lost in what I can do and what I want to do and then I'm left sitting there with a bunch of projects I need to work on and don't know where to begin. I am just trying to pace myself and just improve on the little things and learn new things one at a time. I really had no clue how much there is that can be done with handmade jewelry.

Monday will be officially the first time I've tried to sell anything. A few people I work with also make jewelry and other things for hobbies so we decided to have a little Christmas shopping sale at work for the staff. I'm half excited and half nervous about puttting myself out there like that, but I'm going to do it anyway. A percentage of what we make goes toward the United Way which supports our agency. I have a random selection of things from beaded ornaments to keychains to bracelets.

Here are some pictures of my things:

Here is a picture from a Bead Show I went to a few weeks ago - talk about overwhelming! This is just one of MANY tables. Those are all strands and strands of different beads.



Wish me luck! I doubt I'll be quitting my job anytime soon or anything! :-)