The new postcards for my jewelry business landed on the front porch the other day, and I'm thrilled with how well they look.
Monica, one of my closest friends, shot the photo. She shoots most of the photos for this blog and has a wonderful talent for making my pieces look good. That's important when most of my customers don't get to handle or try on my jewelry before buying it.
Laurie, another close friend, took the image and put the postcards together in Photoshop and ordered them from the printer.
That's a task I could do, but it would stress my abilities a bit (I'd have to learn something new, which is hard sometimes when you don't have a lot of bandwidth), and it is so nice to have a competent friend take over the job.
Now I have postcards to promote my jewelry in a low-key sort of way, which is all I'm comfortable with. I always include a few postcards when I mail a jewelry purchase. I leave them around town at restaurants and coffee places where I hang out. My friends have stacks of them as well.
The previous batch of postcards featured a photo of a turquoise bracelet with a vintage sterling charm. It was a great image, but after that bracelet sold I wanted to use something else. (This is the older postcard: Sterling and Turquoise Bracelet . I still have a few and am happy to send you some with your order. Just ask.)
I am determined to start a new fashion with my jewelry made with vintage bakelite buttons. Each piece is unique, each piece has the charm of an object that has been used and lived with for decades--what the Japanese call wabi sabi--and there is a quirkiness about taking such a mundane, everyday object, a button, and making jewelry with it. Or so I think.
See:
Vintage Jewelry: My Collection
Photo: Monica Strasen.
@ Jeanne Sather 2010.
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