If they’re cheap enough, earrings can be bought at the rate of a pair a day, and some folks will do exactly that — buy a pair a day or more. With Gender Fluidity becoming all the rage among youngsters, there’s a good chance that everyone will have piercings galore, which indicates that there will be more than enough piercings on the average teenage body to accommodate dozens of earrings at a time, so don’t stop at the ears!
With my Teeny Copper and Teeny Brass Earring Kits, you can make thousands of earrings an hour, and they’re so cheap, quick and easy to make! Okay, maybe not THOUSANDS of earrings an hour, but certainly dozens.
Actually, the earrings will cost on the average of less than a dollar to make, and for another half a buck, you can successfully and wonderfully package them for easy retail sales.
Yes, I said “easy sale”, because there’s nothing easier than selling someone their own name or their Zodiac sign or their pet’s name etched in copper or brass, and that’s just the NAME variety of earrings or medallions — but there are so many more things you can do with this amazing medium, beyond just names and Zodiac signs.
You see, a craft circle is a CRAFT circle, meaning that the folks are engaged in learning how to make a special and very unusual handmade item in a Paleo way.
It’s definitely not what you’d expect from a Higher Ideas Study Group, which is basically an intellectual combat ground on which higher ideas are tested by argument and reason, tinged with more than a touch of emotion, and I don’t mean higher emotion, either.
Okay, so what’s the advantage of a craft circle over a study group?
You have something on which to focus as a team, which is the preparation of items for a specific exhibit, trade show, trunk show, gift fair, swap meet or yard sale, or you can take items door to door or business to business, as in the case of corporate gifts you can make with their company name on them.
Well, that covers the earrings, but what about the folks who, for reasons ranging from person preference and dress code all the way to skin sensitivity, just don’t ever wear earrings? What do we have for them? — I can’t say “What do we do for the men?” anymore, because some men DO wear earrings, but some — many more than do, just don’t.
How about a key chain or money clip adorned with an embossed metal disk, or a desk item with your embossing plate glued into a routed-out square or rectangle or circle?
If your craft circle group has some talent, you might consider framed copperplate “etchings”. Merely cut the shape and size copperplate you want to work on — I’d keep it under the size of the back board you’re using to emboss with, just to make it manageable, but it’s entirely up to you, but people really do like and buy and collect miniatures.
I’m currently packaging sets of 12 Signs of the Zodiac, which is a set of all twelve astrological signs made up as small earrings and, by the way, it’s harder to make them than it is the larger disks, but they have to sell for less because the public perception is that bigger is more money, smaller is cheaper.
Wrong? Of course it’s wrong. ALL Urban Legends are wrong, but you can’t stop them from spreading all over the landscape, like a swarm of locusts.
My sample sets of Zodiac earrings are gallery-tagged at $225, and are available to you at the wholesale price of $112.50, which works out to less than ten bucks a pair. Would you do that much work for that? If so, you can copy these and sell your own!
Don’t worry if your earrings don’t bring more than $10 a pair at first. Shoppers will sense your discomfort at asking a decent price, and you’ll be intimidated — probably by yourself more than anyone else — into asking too little for your work.
What about me? Yes, I ask too little for my work, but I’m entitled to — I’m not here to be a merchant, but to show you how to use the medium of entrepreneurship to awaken your Essential Self and get it into motion.
Yes, into motion. Intertia is an unfortunate word, because nobody understands it. Inertness might be better, might get the idea across just a bit more clearly.
To be inert is to be at a near or total stop, and that means you won’t be getting into motion without some sort of impetus — some sort of help, or shock, or sudden change of circumstance might do it.
Think of the ease by which you can have an embossing party, sending out invitations that might read: “Make your next party an Embossing Party!!!”. You’d have some explaining to do, but it might be worthwhile trying that approach with your friends.
Libraries, restaurants and other public places will generally go out of their way to make space available at slow times of the day. Your craft classes might find a home in someone’s small Yoga dojo.
Well, back to work I go, preparing PROMOTIONAL items as giveaways. I’m making small copper cats, dogs, birds and, of course, Zodiac Signs.
See You At The Top!!!
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