My first feature

I was so excited when Kerry contacted me asking to feature my etsy shop! My first feature! Kerry has a great blog which features brilliantly talented artists and their work. http://etsystudios.blogspot.ca/ check out her blog and see my feature. Hope you like, let me know what you think. Feature should go up today somewhen so keep an eye out for it.

treasury List

Hi All,

I just joined a new team on ETSY called STATTEAM, they have some amazing sellers and I've created my first treasury list of members on the team. So here it is -

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/MjA1NzQwNTN8MjcyMzU4OTkwMA/statteam-tresury-blitz-brighten-up-your?index=0

Hope you like it! If you do please leave a comment and tell others about these great sellers and #STATTEAM on twitter.

Resort style jewellery

Hey all,

I've created a new board on my pinterest site for resort style jewellery that I like and would love to wear myself. (If only I had lots of money and could buy all the lovely jewellery pieces I find on ETSY!)

http://pinterest.com/regaliajewelery/resort-style-jewellery/

Have a look at my board and follow me if you are on pinterest.

I love creating boards, when I was at college we were always having to create "mood" boards to show our inspirations and design development, pinterest is great for doing this and is WAY easier and less messy then making a board with glue and torn out pages from magazines etc!!!

I love wearing natural boho style jewellery that is relaxed and has a beach/surf style. This is one one of my pieces that is made from gorgeous jasper gemstones and is my interpretation of resort style jewelery.

                                                             My resort style jewellery

The picture below is also made from jasper. This was the first piece of jewellery that I sold on Etsy (I really wanted to keep it for myself!) I think it has a resort style too.

GIVEAWAY!

joined a few teams on ETSY and one of the teams - BritishSellers, is doing a giveaway. To check it out and see all the 18 lovely items that you could possibly win go to the following blog site - http://britishsellersonetsy.blogspot.co.uk/

Memory wire bracelets.

So I started making some very glitzy bling memory wire bracelets. One of my sisters saw a bracelet I had made and brought it. Since then my mum and my younger sister saw the bracelet my sister had brought and they put in their order to get their own made. Each bracelet I've made has surpassed the other in bling and now my other sister who brought the original bracelet wanted another couple of bracelets made that were even more dazzling! I thought I would share my creations with you:

I made this black pearl and crystal bracelet for my mum.

I made this ivory pearl, crystal and rhinestone bracelet for my younger sister.

I made these two bracelets for my sister who brought the original bracelet.

The following pieces are memory wire bracelets I have made and are now available to buy on Etsy

Click here to look at my shop and these bracelets.

If you like any of these items but would like your own bespoke piece made convo me through my etsy shop on the following link. -

contact me.

Titles, tags and traffic...

A couple of weeks ago I was spurred on to put real effort into making my etsy shop work for me and start creating some real bussiness. So with that in mind I started to make some goals, firstly I need to get my shop known, and one of the ways I could do that was with my blog. (At first I only started this blog for my own benefit as a way of keeping a record of the pieces of jewellery I have made and I could refer to the blog as a list of my creations. Now I see the bigger picture and the potential of blogging...providing I can master it!) So where was I? Ah yes I was spurred on... One goal was to blog everyday, which I started to do, the first week. Ashamedly I confess it has waned, no excuses but I've also been trying really hard to add stock to my shop, create social media sites for my shop and increase traffic to my shop, and do all of this just in the hours that my little one is sleeping! (What did I say about not making excuses!) Anyway all of this is leaving my brain feeling rather frazzled! And all I keep thinking about is tags,tags,tags!!!! Tags are the bane of my life. Whats a tag you ask? Well until I opened my shop I had no idea what it was or what people were talking about when they said "you need to create traffic." Traffic? 'traffic is on the roads,' I thought, and normally I try to avoid it! Well if you have a website or online shop you will already know that tags are the keywords that you attach to your items so when people do online searches they can find your item. Traffic is what you want to create to your shop i.e. lots of people browsing your shop online from lots of different sources. (Even now as I talk about these things my mind goes fuzzy and I feel like lying down!) So at the moment I am working on increasing followers on my twiiter site: https://twitter.com/similar_to/RegaliaJeweller Creating boards and followers on my pinterest site: http://pinterest.com/regaliajewelery/ Creating followers on my etsy shop and increasing my items for sale. So far I have 12 items on my shop (my goal is 50!) I've been managing to add 1 or 2 a day. I know what your thinking "It could take a while," but there is alot involved in listing an item. Let me save that for another post! Anyway next goal (after fulfilling all the above) is to create a facebook account for my shop. I didn't want to create it until I had a good amount of stock in my shop for people to look at. What do you think should I wait to create it or not? Anyway I think I would feel more motivated and less overwhelmed if I had at least a few followers to my blog, then at least I would feel like someone is interested. (yes I want your pity! lol!) Okay anyway I need to get back to listing more items. If you want to make me smile I'd love to check my blog next time and see a new follower or 2... or even a comment! Heres hoping. x

Get my button

I created a few boards on Pinterest of items that I really like. They are a collection of jewellery pieces that I think are inspiring and would love to wear. Check them out on this link and grab my pinterest button!



http://pinterest.com/regaliajewelery/