Also if you have friends and family, ask them what they would wear as most people tend to like certain things over others. And they can also offer opinions about things that you can make. Just like Trish, I find that some of the people that are out there, don’t like sets. So if you made a set of something, you can always offer the “set” price and then you can offer what ever other prices you have in mind. But remember you can always offer sets so that if a person wants a set you can provide that to them. One of my earrings “pairs” is about 12 dollars while the necklace is $64. So I would be more able to sell the earrings, then the necklace. You will find it tends to be easier to sell the earrings.

Also I would look up on here, Rena’s pricing guide. This helps when you go to sell your items as you can get back what you paid to make the item and then you can multiply it so you can recoup your beads and things. And just like people have told me, you need to pay yourself too.

And taking everyone’s advice:get feedback, and even if its silly you will be much better to accept and work on those things. My advice for you like the others have said is do what you love, work with everything, try a little bit here and there, and perhaps one day you will find the best most perfect thing that works more then fantastically for you. A lot of genres are out there for making jewelery. LOL I don’t have a genre that I use, because I mainly work with what i can find on a budget.

So go Jump and Reach for the Stars, and let the angels, guides and stars inspire you.

Making what you love – works best every time. If you like it, then you know at least one person in the world likes it!!! Chances are, someone else will, too.

Earrings – always the best bread and butter pieces for every jeweler I have ever talked to. They have the highest potential selling price compared to the materials cost and time. And they have the best sales at every show I have ever done. My sales are often more than 50% earrings. Also,if you lose one,or can’t replicate it to make a pair that match, a couple of alterations will produce a pendant. Add a chain, ribbon or leather cord, and you’re good to go with necklaces.

As you see which of your items sell the best, learn from that and make more of the same and variations on that theme.

Finally, keep the quality the very best you can manage. Nobody wants stuff that falls apart. Get feedback from friends and family and look for solutions to whatever isn’t working well. Ask what they like most and what they think would be the best improvements, and see where that takes you.

Also, you mentioned wanting to work with beginning pieces and then progressing – and earrings have a lot of possibilities for that. Starting out with bead earrings, you can develop some wire skills with making wrapped wire loops at the top of your headpins, and you can also make your own earwires. From there you can add all kinds of other jewelry methods to your earring designs.

In my experience, earrings tend to be popular sellers – whether people are buying them for themselves, or to give as gifts.

Wishing you all the best, Jennifer – and let us know how you’re progressing! 🙂

What can you make as a beginner jewelry maker that will later sell? I don’t know. None of us know. The items that sell are different every day. People are fickle and unpredictable.

Items that I think will be really popular at a particular event or in my Etsy shop don’t sell at all but at the next event or the next day they sell like hotcakes. Why? I don’t know.

My best advice…make a high quality product that you love, don’t sell your items below value trying to compete with discount stores and cross your fingers. That’s what the rest of us do. *smile*