| Share your Hobby with Others ~ Teach Jewelry | | | | |
| Making Classes | | | | Developing a website to sell your jewelry, |
| | | | selling at craft shows, holding boutiques in |
| Our family relocated after my husband changed | | | | your home, and having others hosting jewelry |
| jobs. I left my teaching career and took | | | | shows are all ways to build your jewelry. |
| some time off to get my family settled in our | | | | business. |
| new community. During this time I started | | | | |
| making jewelry as a hobby and soon found that | | | | I also found that I could combine my love |
| my friends wanted me to make jewelry for | | | | jewelry making with my love for teaching. |
| them. I was overwhelmed with the response I | | | | Teaching community education classes, and |
| got and found that there are many different | | | | putting on beading birthday parties have |
| avenues to pursue when selling jewelry. I | | | | really increased my business. Some of my |
| have found many different avenues to selling | | | | most popular beading classes have been ones |
| jewelry, one has been through my website | | | | that have been held right after school for |
| | | | about an hour. This summer I have been |
| Over the past few years I have collected many | | | | hosting Kids Beading Open Houses where the |
| email and mailing addresses for notifying my | | | | parents drop of their kids for a couple hours |
| customers as to the events I will be selling | | | | while I keep them busy beading. The kids |
| which has been the key to helping my business | | | | have a lot of fun while the parents enjoy the |
| grow. | | | | break! |