Estherly, handmade jewelry, sophistication displayed

I’m really excited!

I’m the guest writer for Crafts of Texture and I decided to write something highlighting the Chinese Knot history. I’m excited to see my name at the by line :) Something that I always dream of doing since young! My parents will be able to tell you that I wrote tons of stories when I was young but I was too shy to publish them. They are now sitting somewhere in my storeroom rotting away.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy what I have written.

http://sarastexturecrafts.blogspot.com/

Sara does very beautiful fabric items. I particularly like her earrings. I think they are very special! It’s one of the typical examples where you won’t be able to find something like this is the supermarket, but only from independent artists who love their work and make truly unique items!

Oh my goodness! Today I have my biggest sales!

I made my first sale with DaWanda and I sold some items with Etsy these two days!! I feel that my shop is so empty now! I need to start working hard now to replenish it!!

Well… I guess it’s a good problem to have :)

People choose jewelry based on the colour, style, birth stones, horoscopes etc… Here is another one: Chinese zodiac.

Chinese zodiac is a set of twelve animal signs used in dating the Chinese lunar calendar. It is also used as a general representation of a person’s personality based on the year he/she is born.

To find out which is your zodiac, visit this website and look for your year of birth.

If you want to know more about your personality based on Chinese zodiac, visit this here:

Buying a Chinese zodiac theme jewelry is fun and unique because
1) Most people know their horoscope but not many know their zodiac unless they understand a bit of Chinese culture
2) Unique and special because - not many people have them!

My Festive Sales is going on until 30 Nov 07 (Friday)!

Grab your stuff asap!

20% for all items. You can visit my online catalogue, my etsy shop or my dawanda shop for purchase!

I’m NOT talking about buying handmade products from big corporations who have mass-produced them using thousands of low-cost labours in China, Vietnam or Myanmar.

I’m talking about buying good quality, handcrafted products from skilled artists who have created the handmade pieces with love, care, passion and attention to details.

There is a HUGE difference.

Back in my home country, the fashion accessories market is flooded with lots of handmade products. Most of them are imported from these developing country. You can buy 3 earrings at the price of RM10 (approx US$ 2.85). You wonder how we who handcraft our products are going to compete with these markets? Well, don’t! and please don’t intend to! You’ll kill yourself for doing it!

Price is not always the only consideration for a consumer to buy. We as skilled artists have paid the price and have got the experience to create things with higher quality materials, with higher quality workmanship, and all handmade products that we have created comes with an ingredient called passion that the consumers can’t get from the normal market.It’s this that the people who value handmade products appreciate, in my humble opinion.

I always believe that the consumer market is huge enough for different markets to survive. There will be people who are only willing to pay US$ 2.85 for 3 earrings, and there will be people who are willing to pay US$ 50 for a piece of good quality necklace.

What do you think?