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Selling Junk Jewelry
August 20th, 2009
A lot of people love jewelry but it can be difficult to start a home based jewelry business, working from home and selling jewelry. First of all, the cost of starting a jewelry business can be quite high depending on your business model. Even if you decide to go the MLM route, the cost of starting up your own jewelry business can balloon and before you know it, you have spent a lot of money already.
If you like designing jewelry and you love to recycle, then one new, hot industry is to make jewelry out of junk around your house. It is a challenge to design beautiful jewelry out of junk but, if you are good, then there is a growing market for your junk jewelry. Bear in mind that junk jewelry is very different from junky jewelry. You can make beautiful jewelry out of ‘junk’ and people will love it.
While it may take longer for older generations to accept the idea of wearing junk jewelry, much of the younger generations already find junk jewelry cool to wear. A lot of junk jewelry are clunky which is great for men as well as women.
What is junk jewelry?
Junk jewelry is usually jewelry designed and created from ordinary objects such as:
- dice
- kitchenware (fork, spoon, etc)
- buttons
- paperclips
- whistles
- foils
- candies
- domino pieces
- broken chains
- pencils
- keys
- clips
- medals
- belts
- shoe strings
- electric cords
- motherboards
- keyboards
- circuit boards
- safety pins
- fabrics
- keytags
- champaign corks
- flowers
- and more
You can use pretty much anything to make junk jewelry as long as you are creative. If you have other jewelry that are broken then pieces of them can be made into junk jewelry and can be worth even more for some people. You still need the jewelry making and jewelry designing skills to make nice, pretty, and beautiful jewelry pieces. You can make necklaces, bracelets, pendants, earrings, and so on. Some materials are better than others to work with. For example, you can make so many different designs of jewelry out of buttons.
If you want to try making junk jewelry, this book has 144 pages of good ideas of what kind of jewelry you can make and even step by step instructions of how to make some junk jewelry. It also has a chapter of how to wear junk jewelry. By making jewelry out of everyday, ordinary, “junk” objects, you can significantly lower your cost of starting a jewelry business.
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