Genna Design

Tumblr and Blogspot

Alan — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:54:20 +0000

I decided to register my names on Tumblr and Blogspot.

I will continue to blog here, but these sites have community features so if there is a blog I follow there I can do so publicly so that they know it’s me following them.

Wedding Directories

Alan — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 14:17:06 +0000

I have submitted Genna Design to the Book Your Wedding Directory.

Now sponsoring the jewellery UK category on the Big Gay Wedding Directory

Hopefully inclusion on directories such as this will help people find me to make their own bespoke wedding jewellery

Genna Design on Facebook

Alan — Tue, 31 May 2011 18:29:02 +0000

I have now set up a new username for my Genna Design Facebook page.

The new link is http://www.facebook.com/GennaDesign

Anyone going to the old link will be redirected there so you shouldn’t notice anything different except my lovely new address at the top.

Updated Sale Stock on Online Shop

Alan — Tue, 17 May 2011 19:03:24 +0000

I spent the weekend working on a stock check. I found loads of old items which I have reduced in price.

Have a look at the fabulous sale items on my online jewellery shop.

Due to the outrageous price rises in silver over the last 18 month I have had to raise quite a few prices to make sure I don’t lose money on some ranges.

From the BBC you can see the trading price. What we jewellers pay from bullion suppliers for it is a lot more. What’s important is the % increase though!
Price May 2010: 18$ per ounce
Price May 2011: 45$ per ounce

Quite often someone will see an old piece and ask for another version of it made in their size. Recently I have noticed that my cost price to make was more than what the old piece was priced at. I of course honoured the old price but had to do something. Unfortunately this meant I really had no option but to review the prices of my pieces.

Old ranges and items reduced in price include both silver and perspex so grab a bargain whilst these last – when I made a sale basket of silver items at craft fairs last year they were snapped up very fast.

I haven’t completed going through my stock at home yet so still more to add later on so keep checking back.

Linking Sites Together

Alan — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:18:37 +0000

I have now created a link between the blog the shop and the main site so it should be easier for you to navigate between them all. If you find any broken links over the next wee while please let me know so that I can sort it.

When I start moving around some pages I need to do some technical magic to make the old pages still work – if you go to site.com/page1 and that is now at site.com/page2 then you should automatically get sent to the right place. Or if I remove a page for a ring that sold 8 years ago it should send you to the rings page and so on.