Do you wear bracelets much? I went through a phase of designing these great, grand fun pieces that got labeled "festival bracelets." A lot of people loved 'em. The originals (read more here) are long gone to their happy homes and

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Wanna' see? It's still not very big yet, but still...I have a shop!

So yea, anybody who's been following along has already discovered that

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In the time it took me to write my first draft of this blog post, I have made a fabulous decision. While writing,

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So when last it was mentioned, I was traipsing off to see about buying me a looking to see what this town had to offer by way of a mannequin I might photograph wearing my necklaces. I was not disappointed.

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Updated on Thu, 05.22.08 at 02:20 PM by Melody

So I'm wondering if it'd be overkill to buy a used mannequin. Sitting here working on this not-insubstantial body of necklace photos for my Etsy shop, I've realized that one style in particular will make a whole lot more sense if photographed in context. Which is to say: Around An Actual Person's Neck.

The problem of course, with deciding to photograph your work on people is that then you have to

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As the items on the "To Do Before Rolling Out The Etsy Shop" list are slowly-by-slowly checked off, I've been thinking of all the reasons I'm thrilled this online resource exists. Because, however, I realized you don't know why, it seemed helpful to share some of those reasons with you this morning!

I'm excited about Etsy because:

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