My First Item on Etsy!!!

Posted my first item on Etsy today!!

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Check it out! I love this piece made from vintage beads. Sometimes letting to of the jewelry is hard, I fall in love with it as I create it. But a girl can only have so much jewelry and this girl has way too much as it is.

Props and many thanks go to my PFF (Proofreading Friend Forever) Andrea, who also happens to be a BFF too, for helping me not only with proofreading the copy but to refine the copy as well. She is an awesome writer and artist. Thanks so much Andrea!! Check out her blog and watch her progress on building her doll house.

Photoshop

Today I worked on learning how to crop my pictures in Photoshop as well as correct the contrast and color balance so that the pictures look more true to the colors of the beads. Whew my head hurts, but I am learning a lot and having fun at it. I am really learning more and more in Photoshop, but I sure wish I could remember twice in a row how I got the results I got!

I am pleased to see that my little cheapie camera is going to do just fine for uploading the pictures to ETSY. There is a lot of options on this camera for such an inexpensive one. It does seem to take some good pictures.

Tomorrow I think I will be ready to upload my first items for sale. I have to refine some of the copy for descriptions of the items. Writing the copy and coming up with names for the each item in the fashion line will tax my brain I am afraid! Luckily my friend Andrea has offered to help proof and brainstorm with me…in exchange for jewels! Thanks Andrea!

Well it is almost midnight and I am ready for some sleep. This adventure is addicting, I have been beading almost every day for the past year and am not tired of it yet…and am still sketching and dreaming up more ideas than I have money for supplies and time to create it all. What a wonderful problem to have; thank you Jesus!

Busy Week

It’s been a busy week. I had my two nieces, Melissa and Emily, sit for a photograph of them as the Raphael Angels to use for my logo. Props go to Photography by Harvey for taking such a great picture! And for his extreme patience as we took pose after pose and as we went through each of them to choose the exact perfect one to use.

The name for my business is inspired by my mom being a twin and my two wonderful nieces (whom I think are the most “prettiest” of angels. I also love the Raphael Angels, they have been somewhat of a personal icon for me for several years. It was a logical step for me to use that image as part of my logo. But rather than hassle with copyright issues I had photos of them as the angels taken and I designed my logo using that picture. They turned out pretty cute, if I do say so myself.

I have also been busy taking pictures of the jewelry I have made up and getting them web ready to post on ETSY. Learning to use Photoshop...slowly, very slowly. I really should take a class one of these days. I hope to have some of them ready to post in my ETSY shop early next week.
Oh, I almost forgot. I sent out my first newsletter announcing the launch of my business on ETSY. If you would like to receive the newsletter there is a sign up widget in the sidebar. Keep up with what’s new and what’s hot at Twin Angels Designs.

Welcome!

Welcome to my new blog. Here I will share the news from Twin Angels Studio, the jewelry I create and My business, Twin Angels Designs.

Check back and let me know what you think.

I will be adding pictures of my designs, which will be available at my ETSY shop http://www.twinangels.etsy.com/. I am not up and running there yet, but should be shortly.