Vampy jewelry

I've come upon some very exciting news.  One of the directors of the Vampire Diaries purchased my jewelry (at Young Blood Boutique...how appropriate!).

So I'm enlisting your help, if you watch the show (which of course I now will).  And you see my jewelry, please let me know (email: info@eilisainjewelry.com).  For extra incentive, you'll receive a complimentary owl talon charm for your investigation!

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Bellissimo

I'm not sure if I would say the past several months have been bellisimo completely but lately it has! Which makes up for the not so exciting months.  As you may or may not know I graduated last December from ECU with a BFA in metals and jewelry.  Since January, I've kicked my ambitions into high gear and structured my jewelry business, Eilisain Jewelry LLC.  It's been a big learning experience and I'm hopeful for the future.  

Within the past several weeks, I'd say since March, some wonderful opportunities have come about from my hardwork; and slowly I'm sharing them with you! 

About two weeks ago I was interviewed by local magazine, Bella, based out of Washington, NC. Wes Nicholson, a writer for Bella, called me up and wanted to interview me about my jewelry.  It was really great to have local press want to feature me, especially since my jewelry is inspired by eastern North Carolina.

Below is the full page interview.  Bear with me, as I know it may be hard to read. 

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Starting up a business

Ms. Laura Wood (friend and ECU metals alumni) has an awesome post on her new experience of officially and legally starting a business.

check it out!

P.S. I'm already purchasing this book.
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Embossed cards

Some close up shots of my embossed cards. I'm really psyched about them, they provide a consistent and professional look to my jewelry.

The above embossing was the second try, with smaller text and
with Jewelry at the bottom...geez that was a test in my sawing skills!

Here is a very general guide to how I embossed my cards - it was very simple, even if you don't have a print roller, you could still emboss cards or paper.
What I did:

• Print out my logo, but in smaller text; pasted the paper onto a sheet nickel silver (someone left out the perfect size in the studio) or any other cheap metal
  
• Pierced out the words (was not an easy task), file and sanded the metal smooth,
• Then I placed my pierced nickel silver on the print roller,
• moistened the BFK paper (special and soft),
  
• then rolled it through so that it embossed my paper and voila, I have my own packaging paper!
  

And larger text of Eilisain.

I plan on adding color to the text, I bought some purple ink and plan on trying it out this weekend. We'll see how that goes!

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crowd funding: great post from Crafting an MBA

Megan Auman has such remarkable marketing and business savvy posts - that's pretty much what her blog, Crafting an MBA is all about.

She is one of my guru's for my business research.

Her recent post is something I've been considering as an option to fund my possible residency adventures. Crowd funding, basically advertising your plan to the open market for financial support. It's a brilliant concept but one that has definitely been done before.

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