Bound For Glory

January 29, 2019Uncategorizedartwork, color, ej gold, form, fun, gorby, gorebagg, jal, jewelry, paint, reincarnation, rocks, sales, sculpture, sell, selling, shape, stonesgorebagg

“Me & My Money”, a serigraph produced decades ago.

My serigraphs used to retail at $1800-$3000, but we haven’t marketed them for at least 20 years — what are today’s prices? No idea, but we’re going to find out.

I intend to dig out some of those serigraphs, produced in the days before computer generated “giclee” color printing. These are from pastel originals. They are each and every one completely hand-printed, each color laid down separately, through a carefully prepared silkscreen, until all colors are present on the print.

Technically, it is “a work on paper”, and is produced in a profoundly limited run, hence it is sometimes referred to as “a multiple original” or “an original multiple”, depending on what part of the country your gallery might be standing.

I’m offering them today at ridiculously low prices, because my market has yet to be re-established in the marketplace.

Hence and therefore, the serigraph “Me & My Money” is available FRAMED to retail at $850, which means that your wholesale cost will be $350, allowing you to “keystone double”, which is standard retail practice.

Keep in mind that this piece comes framed, and that means money. If you don’t want it framed, take off $50 and we’ll ship you the serigraph flat — I don’t roll prints if I can help it — of course, large paintings on canvas are quite another matter.

There are not many of any of my earlier serigraphs left — they sold surprisingly well at the time — so if you want one of these compelling and dramatic pieces, better say so right now. Please don’t contact me months from now and expect to get one of these serigraphs. Continue reading →

New Beginnings New Ideas

January 11, 2019Uncategorizedej gold, gems, gorby, gorebagg, jal, jewelry, minerals, reincarnation, rocks, shop, stones, storegorebagg

Working on the Atrium Shop with standard glass cases & overhead Lighting.

It is a time for new beginnings, for a new hope, and here are a few ideas to get you started:

Zombie Family Hot Sauces & Popcorn Shake — this is a booth that we make for you and stock for you and you sell in your own neighborhood.
Birthday Coin Earrings & Pendants. You can make any date jewelry with Lincoln Cents, and they can be worn without harm to the coin!
Rock Art Projects — Hundreds of Rock Art Projects come with all parts needed, plus instructional video link on youtube for each and every project.
PLS Course — You can start right away with the PLS cards, and there will be issued, very soon now, a “Beginner’s Pack” only one lifetime track away from here, in the Victorian/Edwardian Period, easy to work with, and tons of fun with history!
CQR Acrylic Lockets — Totally wearable, the CQR is protected by the “slab style” acrylic encasing. Wear it in the shower, throw it against a wall, run over it with a truck, as long as the acrylic capsule is intact, the coin is 100% safe from harm.
Rare Coin Jewelry — For the first time EVER, you can wear your most precious coins without harm to the coin.
Rare Meteorite Jewelry — Slices of rare meteorites can be mounted in acrylic capsules and fitted out with silver, gold or bronze finials & bails.
Painted Cabochon Rings — A complete set of rings necessary to sell your cabochon stones. You only need a single sample to sell these rings — they’re shipped when done. Sizes 7, 8, 9 and 10 only. All other sizes must be cut, welded and polished, which I don’t do — it is definitely an additional cost of around $50-$100 depending on the jeweler’s level of compassion.
Miniature Dollhouse Scale Paintings — These are genuine gesso prepped canvases on actual hardwood stretcher bars, 2″x4″ and 3″x3″. Black gessoed 3″x3″ canvases are also available. These can be sold at anywhere from $39.95 up to hundreds, if you can do dog and cat portraits.
Chess, Checkers, Backgammon & Tic Tac Toe Sets — You can make a number of great elegant board games using stones, and there’s a kit for every kind of game you can think of!

There are, of course, more ideas and more plans, but get started on ONE project now, while you can still do it.

Call to ask about project kits that are currently available.

See You At The Top!!!

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Stuff For Sale

October 25, 2018Uncategorizedchocolate, earring, ej gold, gemstones, gorby, gorebagg, incense, jal, jewelry, jewels, luck, lucky, meteorites, painted rocks, pennies, reincarnation, rocks, stonesgorebagg

Here’s a short list of some stuff you could make, search & find or prepare for sale:

Painted Rocks — cheap, inexpensive to make, doesn’t cost very much, and there’s not a whole lot of money involved, although with the right artwork, you can get up to $50 for a painted rock with no problem, and more if it’s in a gallery.
Incenses — Either a blend of incenses or a group of your favorites, or you could try making incense yourself, although I predict that sooner or later, you’ll end up buying and reselling, instead of spending all your marketing time making incense.
Chocolates — Never mind about them expensive truffles, although we do offer them in winter and spring shipping weather. We’ve got the ideal — a powerful 72% pure chocolate that is 100% wholesome and 100% delicious, for the price of only 25 cents per package, wholesale. You sell them for $1 apiece, you make 75 cents on every transaction, and boy, does it add up fast at this price! On the right streetcorner, you could do quite well. Forget the huge expensive chocolate samplers — too much money, too much chocolate, not good chocolate but commercial grade crap. Stay with the program, stay on target, sell these at 2 for a dollar and you’ll still make money and you’ll help the community stay in the flow!
Earrings — These are of the Czech wood variety — light, easy to make, cheap to make or wear, and they look absolutely great! The colors are wild and astonishing, and everyone will notice these earrings! They sell RETAIL for only $10, and I show you how to make them fast & easily.
Meteorites — Not very easy to obtain small ones, might be too much trouble, but these are always going to create excitement, so maybe you can work out a way to sell them at a dollar. Your cost would be around 50 cents for the stone & package.
Lucky Pennies — These are easy to find and do really well as a giveaway, with some purchase, however small it may be. I like to give them to anyone who shows any interest in the shop whatsoever — it’s a great way to get your business card into someone’s hands without pushing the card in their face.
Lucky Rodneys — These are a bit harder to sell — they retail at $10 for the capsule variety, which is what sells the best. These you don’t give away — you can’t afford it. These are meant to sell. FREE is the Lucky Penny, if you wish, and not the variety called “Double Lucky Penny”, which is always in a capsule. Figure that the capsule plus the package costs you about a dollar, so get some cash for this item. The plain old “Lucky Penny” is just a penny and the package, so the cost out of pocket is about 10 cents, including the penny. Don’t forget that you’re giving the customer cash as a gift just for coming into your shop. Reward their interest and you will be happy.
Zombie Family Hot Popcorn Topping — Our Zombie Family Popcorn Topping is what you will be offering to customers. The hot freshly popped popcorn is in half-filled paper bags inside the professional concessionaire popcorn machine. You offer a small Dixie cup filled with a bit of popcorn and a small dose of super spicy hot popcorn topping as a sample. If they like it, they can buy a bagful of hot popcorn in the paper bag. You simply tap in the hot topping on the halfway filled popcorn, then fill the bag the rest of the way and shake two or three more times on the topmost layer, and hand to the customer. The Zombie Family Authentic Cajun Hot Popcorn Topping you will sell by the table-quality shaker, at only $9.99 apiece, and you get a LOT for your money!!!
Zombie Family Hot Sauces, BBQ Sauces & Steak Sauces — These are amazing and quite delicious. They taste it, they buy it. Have samples ready for your crowd and roll them bottles out!
Handpainted Chess Sets — I do these both as a single-face and as a double-faced piece set. The singles are mounted face-up, and the doubles are mounted on a wooden base. They are painted both sides so both players can see which piece is which. The symbols are VERY easy for any chess player — they are the standard symbols, but I also make other sets with very different designs, keeping in mind that chess is a military style board game. The “castles” are actually “towers”, rolling towers for scaling walls, and the horse represents an entire mounted cavalry unit, while the bishops are the elite troops, the Queen is actually her regiment, and the same with the King. The pawns are just the cannon-fodder they always were, to be driven forward by the lances of the Royal Guard.
Backgammon & Checkers Sets — These I make with perfectly round or nearly round stones, which are uncommon, therefore the sets are not plentiful. Allow a couple of weeks for me to find the rocks before I can even get around to painting them.

By the way, all my rock paintings are signed, with the singular exception of the Flying Heart Stones, which are offered at 50 cents apiece, if you plan to resell them — the usual price will be a dollar each, but some folks will give you more, if you look sufficiently pathetic. Joke.

Those are just a few examples of the stuff you could be helping to flow out into the life of humans of planet earth.

See You At The Top!!!

gorby

JAL Stone Age Jewelry Factoids

April 24, 2015Uncategorizedanger, anger management, build, copper, crafting, design, ejgold, empowerment, fear, gauge, gemstones, gold, gorby, gorebagg, ideal size gemstone, jal, jewelry, reincarnation, samples, silver, smithing, stonesgorebagg

Polychromed lid from one of my coffins, c. 1300 B.C.

The IDEAL Gemstone size-range for JAL Stone Age Jewelry is 5mm up to 10mm. Lightweight stones or beads can be as large as 14mm, but it’s not recommended. Can smaller stones be used?

Smaller high-grade expensive Gemstones can be used by doubling the stones in the vertical plane, or adding them as dependents, drops or loops. Two small stones add up to more visual impact than one larger stone, even at the same carat-weight, not sure why.

The ONLY acceptable drill-hole sizes for JAL Stone Age Jewelry is what can fit on a .16 gauge or .20 gauge COPPER wire. Larger drill-holes don’t necessarily help, and very large drill-holes can make the bead or the bead arrangement unstable and wobbly.

When you work in copper, it’s your work the customer is buying. When you work in silver or gold, you get the same pay for your work, but you must also sell the precious metals, and the customer NEVER understands that they are getting back a cash rebate in the form of precious metals easily exchanged for cash at the current melt-value.

So you become a metal salesperson. Continue reading →