Materials Needed to Start a Work at Home Jewelry Business
Starting a work at jewelry business is one of the easiest ways to start earning money online. The great thing about it is that you don’t need a lot of money to get started. This is one business that you can easily start out with your family member and friends as your customers. Some people buy kits to use and start selling from there. Kits are ok to use to gain skills and knowledge of a certain technique but it’s not the best way to start your business. Sell jewelry from kits will limit your sell and skills. People are willing to pay more for unique and one-of-a-kind pieces. Also kits can be quit expensive and your profit margin won’t be very lucrative. You can charge more and keep your cost low by creating your own unique pieces. Do some research by going through magazines and catalogues? You can also go to your local craft store and find free how to sheet on jewelry making and learn a few new techniques. Make a binder full of all the idea you would like to try and any price information that is available. Use this book only as inspiration to get your creativity flowing. Pictures can also give you insight of how to do something or how it should look after it is completed. There are two easy ways to learn jewelry making methods and techniques that you should consider: beading and making your own beads with polymer clay. Beading bought from the store requires little skill other than a good sense of design and creativity and best of all the materials are inexpensive. Doing beaded jewelry give you 100’s of option to make beautiful pieces. Put creating your own beads with polymer clay will really make your work stand out and be creative and of course one of a kind. My advice would be to get a few books on polymer clay techniques and get all the tools require to make a great product. But remember your not only limited to making beads with polymer clay there are many more options. In the beginning buying all the tools will be one of your biggest expenses but you won’t have to buy this once. These tools will last you a life time as long as they are will taken care of. Listed below I have other tools that will come in handy for you Here’s a list of tools you will need to start: 1. Jewelers’ wire cutters. If you can only afford one pair, get memory wire shears. These are designed to make clean cuts on tough memory wire, so can also be used for softer wires. 2. Chain-nose pliers (sometimes called needle-nose pliers) Very versatile for picking up and grasping small items, bending eye pins, closing jumps rings, even closing crimp beads. 3. Round-nose pliers – Used for creating loops on beaded head and eye pins. Can also be used for winding your own jump rings and as the second pliers you’ll need for closing jump rings. 4. Optional pliers – Wire-looping pliers which have several graduated circumferences to allow you to form perfectly uniform jump rings and loops (in place of the round-nose pliers mentioned above). Crimping pliers which have little notches to allow you to both flatten a crimp bead and then bend it to form a rounded finished look (instead of the flat crimp you get using the chain-nose pliers). As for materials, I recommend some assortment packs of beads in coordinating colors, some decorative metal spacers, seed beads in both silver and gold (These can serve as spacers and beautifully set off your other beads.), tube-shaped crimp beads (Buy the best you can find – these are what hold it all together!), head and eye pins. You might want some silver or pewter charms. For earrings, you would need ear posts or wires or clip-on bases. For bracelets, you need memory wire or stretchy cord or beading wire and clasps. For necklaces, memory wire or beading wire, clasps and perhaps pendants. A bead board is a good idea too. Its ruled tracks help you measure and lay out designs for bracelets and necklaces; as well as to corral the beads you are working with at a given time. When starting a work at home jewelry or any business remember that no matter how beautiful your pieces are no one will by them unless they know you’re in business.
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