Winter designs & Summer Sale!

60 New Jewels by Jessica designs are ready and will be unveiled at the M.E.C. Trade Show at the end of September...Also my signature unique vintage recycled pieces will be there.

Please contact me for wholesale details.

Avaialble to the public from early October at Whitebox!

Check out our Facebook page for WhiteboxPraxitelous for details.

Seashore Magic

Here is a seller I discovered on http://www.etsy.com/

Helen is the creator behind hmsdesigns http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5256671 is from the U.K. and is a textile designer that dabbles in mixed media as well.

She creates greeting cards, aceos and wall art combining elements from the beach and sea, together with lovely hues and textures. I already purchased 3 cards from here today and plan to place them in a frame as a trio for my seaside place...

p.s. She also has some romantic silk heart hangings... :)

Milestones...Ideas...

Well, this weekend saw the celebration of a new milestone in the few years Jewels by Jessica has been online. More sales ever since the new website was launched 10 days ago. I need to spend time tomorrow photographing new designs and putting them online...

I was inspired to check out my visitor stats as well...102.000 visitors since the site was born around 2004 and 5.200 this past month alone... I know many visitors don't stick around for long, but again, I feel this is a pretty good number if one takes into account I am not good with promoting online.

Maybe I needed a sign of optimism, because I have been thinking of a site that would include other Greek Indie Designers...hopefully providing a bridge between them and the rest of the world.

Thinking of names.....any ideas anyone? :) Email me! If you come up with a name we end up using I will send you a free jewel!

Would something funky or something serious be better I wonder...

1) *Designismus*

2) *GreekDesignOnline*

Is website design worth the effort?

I am quite convinced now...after changing the website look completely, into a more compact and professional layout (well, that was my aim anyway!) I am happy to report sales are up :)

I might need a few more days to be convinced it is not a coincidence, but there you go...I suppose spending some money and getting it professionally designed is a smart move after all, I am just happy to be managing on my own up to now. As a control freak I relish in knowing I created the website from scratch with no technical backround whatsoever!

So to all of you wondering, get to work on your site, in the end all the long hours will pay off :)

p.s. thank you to Eva from http://www.needlemedia.com for my custom illustration and to Krystan from http://www.krystan.etsy.com for the new logo, both of them helped immensly in creating the look I was after.