Sales are go!

Today, just as I was feeling a little disenchanted with the whole selling on-line thing, guess what???
I made my first Etsy sale!
I'd only just been reading about how hard the competition is, especially with jewellery and how if you don't add items to the shop on a daily basis your listing can get lost in the quagmire.
I actually went looking for a listing. I typed in sterling silver tribal earrings, some of my "key words" and I flicked through page after page until I finally  found my listing, which I'd listed only a few days prior on page 40!!!! Forty pages in, can you believe it?

How is anybody meant to find me?
Me, who is different from all the rest!
Me, who stands out in the crowd!
Actually the earrings that I sold today were listed only 24hours previously, so I guess they were still close to the front page in search results.


So anyway, in keeping with the Etsy success stories out there, I'm going to try and list everyday (or there abouts) to keep me nearer to the front pages in the search results.
I'm also adapting my jewellery and working on a range, that can be made to order.
The way I've allways worked  is to make one-of-a kind-pieces,  I actually kinda pride myself on the fact no two pieces however similar are the exact same, I mean how can they be when they are handmade.
Ha! Quite often not even  the earrings in a matching pair are the exact same.
The time has come to loosen the artist beret and put my business cap on, I guess.

While I'll continue making my wearable art pieces and supplying them to galleries and gift shops.  I think I have to be a bit more user friendly with myself and the selling on-line process and  produce an actual range of pieces that can be made repeatedly and listed in the etsy shop. I can make them to order, which working in the studio full time really lends itself to, I mean, I can make the piece the day it's ordered and package and send it the next.
I can  press "re-list" on the Etsy shop site, therefor saving me time and energy because I won't have to re-photograph and re-write the entire listing every time something sells.

The pics are what I'm hoping to be the start of the new repeatable range..................

Also if you haven't yet seen it, please check out Evaelena's blog in which I'm featured as this weeks maker.

Getting my "Moon" on!

Thought I'd share a first look at my new "Moon" collection.
I've been working on this series for a month or so now and have listed some of the early examples  in the Etsy shop, you may have seen?
Two moon rings and earrings?

Anyone who reads Murakami will no doubt see a link here. Yep, I'm a big fan, and yes, this is most probably where the inspiration subconsciously came from......
But hey, The moon!! Whats not to love?
Gosh, really if I want to get down to the nitty gritty I may as well mention Nick Drake's Pink Moon, Van Morrison's Moon Dance and Cat Stevens Moon Shadow while I'm at it and Mikey would be horrified if I didn't pop Michael Jackson's Moonwalk in there also........ Yep, its true I love the moon!

So in keeping with the tribal aesthetic I absolutely adore here is a peek at some "Moon" designs.
Soon to be available in the SHOP

Rings around the Moon Bangle

Half Moon Tribal Earrings

Cresent Moon Tribal Earrings 

Had fun today photographing new work for the the online store.  RedPeg Etsy

Thought I'd share some of my favourite pics.........

Sterling Silver Ring with garden hose.

Sterling Silver Ring on Rust.

Earrings in Mulch.

Earrings with Rusty Tank.

Ring with wrens nest.

Earrings in the grass.


I love the contrasting materials.
 I love the way the silver looks in the environment.
I love how the natural elements really lend themselves to the shape and colour of the jewels.
While I know jewellery is best displayed on the body, I really like the idea of taking it out of context and presenting it in a completely different way, focusing on it as an object and taking it away from its intended function.
Must be the sculptor in me!