Giving Growth Jewelry

This week was Winter break and I was away in California which made it difficult to work on our project. So instead this week I looked in shops for ideas on how other people sell their product and whether it is effective or not. Some of the things I came upon is hands-on marketing, what I mean by this is there was this cute little shop and you could take scraps of leather and make bracelets for a discounted price. I thought this was the coolest idea because it was a hands-on experience and it still made them money. I thought that maybe if our project went beyond class and this year we could implement this into our work. While I was away Kenya worked on making more product. I learned that we work well together but it is also hard when one of us is away. so far I think we are on track to our goal which is super encouraging.

As Emily and I are beginning to sell, we have taken into consideration what are mentor has told us, and have now already raised over $120. Emily's friends from Colorado are starting to also purchase some chokers, along with alot of fellow FRA students. We have also started to put the orders in personalized bags with notes on them for each person that buys one. Since we are starting to get a higher demand for our products a challenge we have faced is just time management with creating the chokers and bracelets. We both have very busy lives, and now that we are selling quickly, we have to carve time out of our days to create jewelry, which can sometimes take awhile. We have both decided to work on jewelry everyday Genius Hour we can and that why it will be able to create time to make as much jewelry as we can. Though we are getting more busy in our selling, it is very fun to see friends and students wearing jewelry you've worked very hard on. I am very excited the great improveme...

This week Kenya and I met with our mentor and it was extremely impactful. She helped us with any questions we had, it was very nice to be able to talk to someone with experience in what we are trying to accomplish. Some of the questions we asked her where: What would be the ideal pricing we should do for our products? What is the most effective way to ship our products? What audience should we target our products to? What is your most popular piece of jewelry? How should we openly advertise our jewelry  What company should we partner with for providing education in impoverished communities? She had very insightful and helpful responses to most of our questions. I think the major set back we had this week as I was not able to take good pictures till Sunday which set back our calendar a bit. What I learned about myself this week was I sometimes procrastinate which I need to work on. Another thing that we accomplished this week was selling mult...

Now that we have made it more public about our jewelry, we have begun to sell our products! I have received some feedback from my friends about what colors and styles they like and what they would like to purchase. It is excited for Emily and me to start seeing these great improvements. While Emily is in Mexico, she is hoping to get some really good photos to post on our Instagrams that will better sell our jewelry. I think we have found a solid mentor that will be able to guide us through this project. Her name is Elizabeth Adams and she is one of my mom's good college friends who lives in Alabama and has her own jewelry business called Exvoto Vintage Jewelry. She has a shop in Nashville as well, but will not be in town the times we need to do an interview. She isn't 100% a non-profit but she does give a portion of her money away to an organization that furthers cancer studies since her daughter passed away from cancer. We are excited to do a Skype call soon when Emily comes b...

This week Kenya and I started to work on taking pictures of our Instagrams. We want to really start to spread the word and we believe through social media is the most effective way. On the other hand, we would love your advice on other equally effective ways to spread the word. Over the past week, I believe Kenya and I have grown to love our project, even more, I say this because with every passing moment all the work we have put in is starting to come full circle. Which is extremely encouraging just the thought of helping someone who is not as fortunate to have education makes our heart's smile. This week we also have been doing some research and have chosen to either go with, World Vision or Compassion although that could change as well, those are the most promising ones so far. This prosses is amazing and I'm so glad that Kenya and I have chosen to do this project although it can become difficult to get motivation at times we know that the en...

Throughout this week, Emily and I have made a lot of progressive in our project. We have both made a good amount of jewelry, and are ready to start selling. We have made a good price system, and worked out how to promote our items. Soon, we will have high quality photos of our jewelry, and spread them on our Instagram, and also on our Instagram page for our business. Some problems we have run into while creating our jewelry, is the best way to keep the jewelry to be the most withstanding and just overall last the longest. We are now starting to use special clasps to hold the knot from untying or possibly breaking. We have learned a lot from this project, both in a management way, and given us both a little passion for nosiness running and we are so excited to keep growing and by next week start selling.

Kenya and I's goal is to make 1400 dollars in order to send a girl in Kenya to school for all four years of high school. This week Kenya and I went to the store to purchase our supplies. we bought lot's of colors and some pendants to start the process of making our jewelry. Our next big step is to start to promote our product through our social media once we have some inventory. We are both extremely excited to start this next step in our business and to start to ship and sell things regularly. Our plan is to sell our jewelry for two pieces for ten dollars that way each one of us only has to make 140 different pieces and then all together we have to make around 280 to reach our goal. This is something Kenya and I are very passionate about and we are extremely thrilled to be sharing our progress with all of you guys thank you so much for your support in our journey.          ...