jewelry.

[kleenexwoman]

By itself on an upholstery background:


On my wrist:


It's glass pearl beads with metal spacers, base of tigertail. I'm trying to figure out how much to sell it for--one friend said $50, another said $7. That's kind of a wide range.

I might need to take a better picture of it; the dark beads have this really nice, slightly iridescent property the camera didn't quite get. And I'm thinking I may need to restring it, since it's been a while since I've worked with tigertail. I have materials for two more identical bracelets, though, or one necklace with the same materials.

I want to put this up on Etsy, but I looked at the "featured" stuff and they're all real gems and silver and gold with glowing descriptions, aah can't afford that shit. And I think it may be too monochrome and restrained to be popular. I think it's classy, but chunky colorful stuff seems to be in right now. I don't know, would you buy a bracelet like this? For how much? (and if anyone wants to make me an offer and save me the twenty cents of listing it on Etsy, let me know.)

drworm suggested I learn to make bead flowers. I do have a lot of seed beads.

Comments

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

Ah, good. :) I like making simple things, actually. Minimalist and satisfying.

I used old materials for this, but I think the tigertail, findings, and beads + spacers all ended up costing about $10. Maybe $20 would be a good price?

[itcomesinphases.livejournal.com]

I'd say about $30 if you plan on making more. $10 to recover the cost of materials, $10 to purchase new materials and $10 for profit or for more materials. My general rule of thumb is to multiply the cost by pi.