My Creative History - part 4

After opening my shop on February of 2007 (with my father's blessings) I've started putting some of my creations in it too. My father's idea was that I would finally get involved with the job that I've studied all these years. My idea was that "Ok, I'm opening this shop with THAT excuse so I can also put my handmade stuff in it and see how it goes". And so I did.

Here are some random pictures of them.

Photo frames decorated with pieces

of golden plastic tablecloth

and gold & silver foil

Bottles decorated with

pieces of plastic tablecloth

Jewelery made of flax string

 Beautiful hair pieces with buttons

 Cute bracelet

 A vintage button

turned into a brooch

 Beads and more beads

A cute "laundry" necklace"

 Earrings made of cork

and paper napkin

 A vintage button turned into a brooch

 Decorative candle holder

made of old cds

 Christmas earrings

 Plastic foil and paper

Cute bookmarks

Handmade brooches

made of old tights and wire

The result? My main occupation has been draining out all of my energy and the "crafting business" has been left aside. Plus, I haven't had so many sales of my handmade items because everyone that would come into my shop was coming with something else in their minds. Some of them would get interested about them but they weren't coming to buy handmade, they were coming to make some photocopies or design their business card. That was a little disappointing for me but I couldn't blame them. You can't have EVERYTHING in one shop. Some things don't mix or match. So, once more, I've left my dream aside for a while "until I 'd be ready". I just have put all of my creations on my Facebook page and Flickr for sharing them with my friends and my friend Annie has made a Fan Page for me.

Some random sales came out of it.

A friend of mine had ordered me

some pairs of earrings for his girlfriend

 

and a girl that I didn't know had ordered me a bracelet

and earrings made with buttons

and a pair of my earrings made of caps.

I was so excited, but yet... afraid to make the big step!

(to be continued...)

Check the previous part of my history here.