Sheila3

Sheila3

Hi everyone. I have had a hobby of making jewelry for a couple of years and after doing it mostly for fun, had the pleasure of creating pieces to give as presents and selling a few along the way I succumbed to requests for a website and turned it into a a business and launched an ecommerce site last November. Fortunately I was in technology so was able to create and maintain the website myself and, probably unfortunately, have been unemployed for a long time now so I have time to focus on building it as a business. Although I have a art background and experience in photography it has also taken me in an unexpected direction as I had to learn how to photograph the jewelry myself. So in addition to learning everything I can the things I am most interested in learning about at this point are how to grow a business and connect with the right market of customers, photography and lighting, and something which seems simple but has given me alot of aggravation, storing sterling silver jewelry to avoid tarnish. I have intricate pieces with swarovski crystal and semi-precious stones and the swarovski is easy enough to clean with the silver but not so the gemstones as I have bleached them with cleaning so I need a way to store to keep the tarnish off. I currently have them stored in individual plastic bags but this is not practical as I also wear the samples. I am looking for some type of jewelry storage that is sealed enough that anti-tarnish strips will help but that is also accessible. Any suggestions, please let me know. Thanks, Sheila; www.spangleandstonenyc.com