Archive for August, 2008
Website Store Open…Blog Relocated…Fall’s Coming!
My new (and 2nd store location) is now up and running. The inventory is limited, but I am adding to it every day! Now you have 2 sites to preview and browse my beaded jewelry designs as well as seeing them here on my blog.
You can connect to both stores easily from my blog by clicking the tabs in the top header or the Pages in the right side bar. Both store locations have secure shopping cart checkout so you don’t have to worry about using your credit card online or I have PayPal on both sites for those who prefer using their accounts for purchases.
For those who have followed my blog for a while, I apologize for all the url address changes recently. I wanted to grow and establish my own website complete with my blog and a new store to increase my internet business presence. I just didn’t anticipate all the pitfalls and challenges I would face doing all of this from scratch by myself. I am really lucky I have a great online support group on the Creative Shop Talk Forum. Thanks to you all.
I am beginning to start designing for fall and winter and have been researching trends and colors. One color trend I see already is the use of green and gold together. Everything from yellow gold to dark antique gold is being mixed with green shades in clothing and accessories. Circles and rings are still dominate in jewelry, but have a more subtle use as part of the design, not necessarily the focal point. Swirls, etching, hammered, coils, textured are all adjectives for this fall’s metal and wire components.
Here are my newest designs:
Amber and Black 3 Strand Necklace Set - This necklace set has simulated amber diamond shape resin beads with black glass twist beads and jet bicone crystals, seed beads and black nickel cable chain.
KC Bead Designs - Beaded Jewelry by Cheryl Skeens, located in the greater Kansas City, Missouri area, is owned and operated by Cheryl Skeens. In business since 2003 as a jewelry artist / designer of handcrafted beaded jewelry such as beaded earrings, bracelets, necklaces, eyeglass chains, beaded lanyards, zipper pulls, cell phone charms, mother’s bracelets, bridal and prom jewelry and more. Reflections. . .Beaded Jewelry. . .by Cheryl Skeens opened in July 2008 along with her new blog-site and is her second online store.
Tags: amber, Beaded Jewelry, fall trends, gold chains, necklace set
Best Laid Plans of…Webmasters?
Best laid plans of . . .webmasters? Do I dare call myself a webmaster? I did install the software, added the content, added plug-ins, etc. to make the website so I guess I am “this” website’s webmaster. But back to plans. . .best or not I found I had to change my plans for my blog format and store shopping cart.
When I wrote last I thought I had this all figured out and ready to “go live” with my blog. OK, so I found I needed to reinstall the blog software and change it to the root directory to get it where I wanted. OK, so I figured out that the osCommerce shopping cart just didn’t do what I needed it to and I couldn’t figure out the css coding and stylesheet to make the changes I wanted. OK, so I had never installed a shopping cart before the osCommerce and didn’t know a thing about putting another cart together. I think you are getting the picture here. . .I goofed and now I had to try to figure out how to fix the mess I had made of my blog and new store.
Well, I am ready to “go live” again and I think I have tested everything I need to make sure it works. There are still some cosmetic things I need to work on and a few technical tweaks to make but. . .”hello world” again!
Here is another new necklace set I have ready. It has antique gold metal leaf beads, entwined frame beads with salmon color bone beads and black Czech glass nugget beads. This necklace set is available in the Reflections Shop.
’till next time!
KC Bead Designs - Beaded Jewelry by Cheryl Skeens, located in the greater Kansas City, Missouri area, is owned and operated by Cheryl Skeens. In business since 2003 as a jewelry artist / designer of handcrafted beaded jewelry such as beaded earrings, bracelets, necklaces, eyeglass chains, beaded lanyards, zipper pulls, cell phone charms, mother’s bracelets, bridal and prom jewelry and more. Reflections. . .Beaded Jewelry. . .by Cheryl Skeens opened in July 2008 along with her new blog-site and is her second online store.
Tags: antique gold necklace set, beaded designs, Beaded Jewelry
