A String of Beads: What a weekend!

What an amazing weekend, The launch party was fantastic, in that I wasn't expecting to sell anything, just show a few things to prospective customers and instead, I was mobbed as I walked through the door!! The ladies could not get hold of my jewellery fast enough, and it was a bit chaotic for a moment as I had not priced the items, let alone photographed or catalogued them. I ended up taking very little home, in fact it could have been even less as I had temporarily strung some of my hand made beads on a piece of string just to show my Mum, and someone asked me how much I wanted for it!!! Unbelievable.

The thing was though that hardly any of these ladies (all of a certain age) did not have access to the internet, so I lost opportunities to promote the site, but hey, If I can manage another garden party like that now and again, then that will do very nicely.

The website has had a couple of hiccups, nothing you'd notice, but it has been getting an staggering amount of hits. In the 3 days since it went live we have had over 12,000 hits which I am pleased with. It looks like most of the visitors added us to their favourites too. Sadly there have been no orders yet, which is a little frustrating, but I expected it would be slow to start with. Maybe Jewellery is something people do need to see rather than buy over the net, and it may well be that the bulk of sales will come from craft fairs rather than the site, but it's early days yet.

I am continuing with my bead making and hope to have a couple of sets ready to make something with this week. It's very satisfying to know you made the whole thing, but that said it's a bit time consuming at the minute.

I need to concentrate on refilling mystock cupboard theis week, so it's off to the shed with my creating head firmly stuck on!!