I like to always find ways to make my business better. What business doesn't? I love making my own tags, bags, displays, anything to enhance my booth/table/site and increase sales. Since I am the frugal, crafty type, I am always on the hunt for items to use, reuse or recycle. The school where I work had a carnival on the last day. One of the booths that we have is the White Elephant. Donations of used goods are sold to fund our next years activities. I picked up a box of party favor bags. 8 bags to a pak, and I had 21 paks. I knew instantly what I could do with them.
I love the round center
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Opens up to fit earring, bracelets and small necklaces.
Look how deep the bag is!!
The ribbon is an added bonus. How pretty.
Someone must have ordered these for a party or wedding.
My first thought was to get some round labels, print my name and paste them on to the bag. I checked with Staples and they wanted 17.00 a package. I did not know whether I would have the need for round labels again, so crossed out that idea. My next thought was to use address labels. I had already purchased some from the dollar store.
Plain old boring white labels.
Since I had gotten them from the dollar, store(Thank you Dollar Tree), I saw that they compared to Avery 8160. If you know Avery Labels, they can be quite expensive. Inside the folder was instructions on how to print on the labels using MS-Word. Here is what I printed out. Simple and to the point.
Now at this stage of the game, I thought about add some other embellishment to the labels to give it some style. Here is what I did
Nothing at all. The only other thing I did was to paste them down at an angle.
Nothing more, nothing less. I just want my business name and the bag to stand out.
******** A little note about the song above. I was watching an episode of Ray Donovan on Showtime. They played this hit. I had forgotten about this golden oldie. Big ups to Ray Donovan.********
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New year, new energy, new me(hopefully). I decided to buy some equipment to take better pictures of my inventory. I finally broke down. Since I had some money on the books at Amazon, I was able to purchase a light tent, necklace display and a tripod. I made a light boxfrom cardboard( I am all about being frugal), but my work space is small and I needed something that I could collapse and put away. I would rather make a product than buy, but I needed to make my jewelry POP, I needed (wanted, you pick) these items. I just hope my frugal crowd understands.
I had never brought from Amazon before and I found the experience to be well..... alright.
I don't really know what I expected. More fanfare, light flashing, angels weeping.
Oh well, let me show you what I got.
Here is my light tent. A little smaller than I would like only 12 inches, but it will do. I have not tired it yet. I am going to ask a friend of my to build me a stand to hold my clamp lights that will surround the tent. This way I can get the crisp, clean white background for my jewelry.
My Tripod came in the mail next.
Eventually, I will purchase one that stands a little taller.
