[Jewelry making - Article 00125] - Re: [Orchid] Truth or dare survey

[Lee Einer]

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    I also am struggling to find a way to make a living as a metalsmith
    and lapidary. I have been a metalsmith for several years, and a
    lapidary for longer than that, but generally, my sales have just
    provided the means to buy more silver, more tools, more rock. A
    couple of months ago, I made a go of making jewelry full time. My
    plan was to market over the internet, and until I could get the
    website up, just make jewelry and build an inventory.  I do
    one-of-a-kind stuff, so I am lucky at this point to pop out 2
    finished pieces per 8 hour day. 

    Anyway, there have been some hitches, the digital camera which I
    ordered so I could build my website has been backordered for over a
    month, and in the interim I have taken a temporary clerical
    position. I remain undaunted, however. The folks I know who make a
    living selling what they make with their own two hands are making a
    living, not a killing, and they did not get their over night, nor
    even necessarily in the first several years. I will keep trying to
    find a way to make a living as an independent lapidary and
    metalsmith, and I hope the rest of you who are struggling do not
    give up your dreams. 

    Perhaps those of us who are independent lapidaries and/or
    metalsmiths and who are struggling to find the way  should get in
    contact off-list and begin networking locally? As an old blues lyric
    went, "if you can't make money, make friends." Those of you in the
    Phoenix, AZ area can consider this an invitation :-) . 

Lee Einer

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