Merch, Merch, Merch!

At a Celtic Faire, it’s easy to sell my jewelry at all prices.

 

I’m back in the jewelry studio. Seems like everybody who knows what’s coming next is presently loading up on tangible goods and precious metals and gemstones, to handle what will undoubtedly be the collapse of currency in the dark days to come.

No doubt about it now. You can see the freight train coming down the track and it’s aimed directly at you. I’ll produce some examples of merch that you can move at a profit, but first I want to mention that I have at hand several alternative “good gaming” solutions for a good gamer to land on, with a saving throw and a death roll somewhere around the fall of Western Civilization, which happens in Level Four of World War IV, our newest latest videogame release, as you probably already know.

Let’s take a look at what you can do right now as a citizen of Earth IV.

This is a pair of solid brass earrings in the style of ancient Greece of the Hellenistic Period. The disks are embedded onto a .16 gauge 12k gold-filled wire, which is expensive. I make these by hand one at a time. The price as you see it here has always been retail $350.00, but while I’m getting my jewelry chops back up, I need the practice, so the bottom line is, you can buy it wholesale for only $125.00, and you can mark them up as your market allows.

I will also make this in solid 24k pure gold, but that’s a special order — I don’t have gold — which I estimate will retail somewhere around $1850.00 if  gold stays at around $1800 an ounce, as it is now.

Sterling Silver and Moldavite Earrings and Ring sell for $1250.00.

I make all sorts of jewelry and have a very good stock of ancient styles incorporating ancient beads. Perhaps a sample would be good:

This is 18k and 22k solid gold granulation with the finest lapis money can buy. It was sold 35 years ago, when such items were still available. Today, I can’t produce anything this fine, but there are still some granulation beads out there, but very few completely reliable sources — but if wanted, I could maybe hunt up some non-counterfeits, given a few months to find them. This necklace set was sold in 1986, on Wilshire & Rodeo Drive, by Isis Gallery.

Copper granulation beads & Czech Hardwood costs $22 to make.

I used to make the bracelets right there in front of the customer, and necklaces were pre-made, but I adjusted them so they fit perfectly, which is almost the same as making it from start.

 

Souvenir “paydirt” from a vintage 1849 gold mine in Grass Valley.

I have paydirt from ten different mines in Grass Valley, and each packet is guaranteed to have SOME gold in it, some more or less than others. Nobody looked, nobody checked — it’s unexamined paydirt from a working gold mine, you buy them at $5 apiece, sell them for $10. Keep them mint and they stay collectible. This could be a great side-hustle, and I have hundreds of bags more of rich paydirt still sitting at our gold claim!

We’ve developed an entire diet that is Bardo-Friendly and we’d like to share it. The best way seems to be in a cooking club or as a book. Tell us what you think about this idea.

tiffany models ej gold copper jewelry
Tiffany Modeling EJ Gold copper jewelry

I will craft up a solid copper Hanger Design necklace for you. It will be unique. I also make, as you see in the photo, armlets and bracelets. They are not expensive and are very easy to sell in a crafts faire environment.

a proposed book of sonnets by jack the ripper could be a bestseller for Xmas.

Well, that’s the lot for the moment, on the way to breakfast and meeting.

See You At The Top!!!

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