November. 2007 Tips From Rena


	Tips From Rena by Rena Klingenberg Rena is expanding her presence on BeadBugle.Com with her column, Tips From Rena, and she's looking for input from you! For every tip submitted that we publish, you'll receive a $10 off coupon from BeadBabe.com that can be used in conjunction with your order. Tips can be about anything bead-related, from threading a needle or storing beads to polymer clay or business. So start sharing your time-saving tricks and handy hints. If you can, send a j-peg along with the tip to illustrate it.

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	Tips for Scheduling More Jewelry Parties by Rena Klingenberg If you've experimented with selling your jewelry at home parties, you may have started out with lots of bookings and profitable parties. But after awhile you've run through all of your friends, family, and customers who are interested in hosting parties, and it can be hard to get more parties scheduled. Here are some tips for reviving your home jewelry party business: Remind everyone of your irresistible host / hostess incentives (see www.home-jewelry-business-success-tips.com/jewelry-home-party.Jewelry Home Party Success Tips for a guide to party host incentives). Send your customer list an email or a snail-mail postcard promoting the benefits (free jewelry, etc.) of hosting a party. Take your jewelry parties where people are. Offer to do lunch-hour / breaktime / after-hours jewelry trunk shows in people's workplaces, local lunch restaurants, happy-hour hotspots, resorts, etc. Reward the business owner and / or the employee who arranges the show with the same incentives you'd award to a party host. Consider doing jewelry parties for men. Gentlemen need to get their gift shopping done, and it can be an enormous help to them if you offer jewelry parties / trunk shows where they and their buddies can take care of this responsibility with your expert assistance. Offer some new and different jewelry party formats. For example, at a "make your own jewelry" party, the guests are likely to buy some of your finished jewelry as well as purchasing the jewelry-making kits they use at the party. Offer online jewelry parties. Party hosts can invite "guests" anywhere on the planet to come and shop on your website during a specified time period. Offer various organizations the opportunity to host a fundraiser jewelry party - but instead of rewarding them with host benefits, you'll donate a percentage of sales to the charity of their choice. Think creatively about the needs your jewelry parties can fill in your community!

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	Archived Tips From the Past BeadBugle Pages

Single Hitch

Hitches have been a favorite in macramé for years. This easy single hitch can be done tightly to secure a woven end, or with the center loops loosely, to form a decorative looping fringe.


	Take the right end (1), and wrap over the main line, then back under and up (2). Now wrap the right end (2), behind the main line, then back over and up (3). Repeat from the beginning, alternating wrapping over and under the main line.

Square Knot around a Main Line

This knot works well to separate beads being woven along a center main line, or to use as a repeating decorative knot for hemp macramé.

Lay a right and left string on the outsides of your main line. Take the left string (pink), lay over the main line (blue), and under the right string (green).
Take the right string (green), draw under the main line (blue), and over the left string(pink).
Take the new right string (pink), lay over the main line (blue), and under the left string (green).
Take the left string (green), lay it under the center (blue), and finally over the right string (pink).
Pull the ends gently to tighten the knot.

About The Author

A passion for earrings started Rena Klingenberg down the beading path. Since then her jewelry business has taken many twists and turns - including teaching workshops and selling her work via shows, shops, and online. She also combines jewelry-making with one of her other lifelong passions, writing.

Rena's ebook, Ultimate Guide to Your Profitable Jewelry Booth, details her secrets and strategies for selling handcrafted jewelry like crazy at shows, fairs, and festivals. She also publishes thousands of tips for marketing handcrafted jewelry in her Home Jewelry Business Success Tips website and Jewelry Business Success News ezine.

When she's not writing or making jewelry, Rena enjoys hiking, traveling, archery, voluntary simplicity, historical sites, arts events, collecting too many rocks and crystals, and acoustic and ethereal music.


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