Bed time for Bozos

Since all but the last pair of earrings currently shown on this blog post are discontinued I thought it was time I posted some new designs.

 And I will just as soon as I figure out where these guys have hidden them.

I did this blog years ago then abandoned the poor thing...time to revive it.

Right before Sierra trading Post got ready to list the pretty toys I sold them a nice gentleman fell asleep at the wheel and decided that updating this blog would have to wait. ( its October and Im updating this again. I had hoped to make it current before they went on line with sales. Turns out I was a bit more bunged up than I realized and almost all the jewelery I sold them had been purchased before I could truly update this. Many styles are sold out completely.) My poor car will never recover but I'm up and about and back to designing albeit at a much slower pace for a bit.
      Months before my accident I was staying in Wyoming. I was there to sell my land and visit my best friend. I thought it would be fun to sell some of my jewelry while we went thru the sale process. Since I normally sell in the very inflated coastal markets, I wasn't sure it would work out ecconomically. Lucky for me Sierra Trading Post loved my designs and the deal I made with them let me do that at a price that was much more affordable than that charged by the upscale boutiques I usually sell to.(Some brick and mortar  boutiques have such high overhead that higher priced is the only way they can go which allows me to charge them substantially more as well. LoL of course I'm happy to oblige them. ; ) ... ) By increasing significantly the number of each style I sold Sierra, I was able to give them a very reduced price. The more limited the edition of a design the more expensive it is to produce both in labor, design and materials cost and though many people happily pay for that premium I wanted to make this run affordable to the average consumer while still making money myself. That said, the ones I sold Sierra were still extremely limited editions compared to a normal commercial style run. And, even though I felt comfortable doing them, as an artist it wasn't quite as much fun. I much prefer designing new styles to making the same one repeatedly.To ballance the experience, I also stopped by Wyoming Home and they bought several lovely one of a kind earrings at the same time that sold for several times the the others. Don't think it's an experiment I'm going to repeat but my heart will always be in Wyoming no matter how far or how often I travel.
  I'm looking forward to this year. I have a feeling it's going to be my most creative ever!