I've resisted the idea of selling through Etsy for sometime now. Don't get me wrong, I love Etsy and all it stands for and promotes and I do a fair bit of shopping on there. I just had this awful feeling of putting my work out there in a big open pool like Etsy would leave me wide open to copying and cloning. I know they say imitation is the highest form of flattery, but this is my livelihood and RedPeg's main ethos is unique and on-of-a-kind, I don't like the thought of being robbed by others of my creativity and my designs.
I've kept my work quite guarded for sometime now. Selling only through Art Gallery gift shops and what I thought to be worthy outlets. More recently I've also started on the handmade-designer market circuit.
This I guess was kinda shooting my self in the foot by limiting my audience and by limiting the audience also the potential buyers.
Having started work full time in the studio (yay), its great being able to make things all day but I also need to get it out there. No point making beautiful things to adorn and be beautiful and make people happy if they don't leave the studio. Well, I'd wear them, but there is no money to be made in that.
I've said before I need two heads and an extra set of hands, so then I could wear more necklaces, more earrings and have more fingers for rings..........Ha, right, good look huh.
So I'm not really sure where I'm going with this post, I guess what I want to say is, I'm on etsy!
I've done it! I've jumped in that pool too.
The thing I love doing most in the world is making jewels, I have forever, whether it was sculpting window putty in my dads shed or hammering nails in wood, I was allways tinkering and creating.
And anyone who has known me for a long time will attest, the old saying, "Give it to Gab, she can wear it around her neck"...............It's true, its what they all said.
I thought it cruel, but now I think its cheeky and fun.
And true.............
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