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Behind the Twinkle – Tattoo Necklaces
Sadness is when something previously “alternative” becomes main stream. Like tattoos. Now every man and woman and their dog, sport tattoos*. In fact it’s weird seeing someone who doesn’t have tattoos. But, they’re not for everyone. And quite rightly so. Imagine having a removable tattoo… hey doesn’t some Kiwi girl have something like that in an Etsy shop?
Why yes, yes she does.
Being the owner of 10 rat-a-tattoos (that’s tat-speak) I also have a number of tattoo magazines. Not the naked chick sprawled on a motorbike kind of magazine but the respected Inked Magazine, Tattoos Down Under, et al.
Tattoo Necklace by Glamour Twinkles Jewelry, available from Etsy
Reading through said tattoo mags, noticed a recurring theme: butterflies, diamonds, hearts, sparrows, and skulls are popular images and just so happen to be jewelry charm staples as well. Well, they are in my wacky world. So I hit upon a charmingly ingenious jewelry idea: remove able tattoo jewelry.
Alas, the sparrow is a rare jeweled pendant charm and only having 10 sparrows in my NEST I could only make 10 necklaces. And one for myself, natch.
My Tattoo Necklace
They were a hit at the last fair I attended and I only have 3 necklaces left – in the entire wide world.
Tattoo Necklace - Rose Heart by Glamour Twinkles Jewelry available from Etsy
So above you see all that is left in the Tattoo Necklaces by Glamour Twinkles Jewelry range.
*Not advocating animal tattooing ever!!
Lazy Behind the Twinkle post tonight readers. I made these Charm Rings years ago when I first started to seriously get into making jewelry. I think they’ve stood the test of time and may need to be reinvented somehow. Enjoy seeing some of my early photography forays in “BLOWING OUT COLOUR”:
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I'm Going to Miss Picnik
My, how we’ve changed. I used to devour actual magazines with gusto. Not so much now I’m afraid. Well, apart from tattoo magazines but that’s not what this blog is about. No, I’ve been working on my marketing e-course and purchasing the first mags I’ve got in, I don’t remember how long. Sadly, I’ve changed.
To market a product one must know their audience. One should also know a little something about possible promotional options. Thusly, magazines were purchased to that effect. Little hint, I’m not sure what my market is so I decided to purchase only NZ and Australian magazines. I figure if and when I have to send samples out the postage won’t cost the earth. So I went out and purchased:
NOT the magazine for me. Full of very expensive glossy clothes and high-end hair styling products. Weird, I thought it was a fashion mag. Purchased because it’s cover told me it held a “what to wear guide”. Didn’t really gel with this little reader.
The cover of this tome told me it had “summer’s hit list” and it also had a couple of articles on stylists which I’ll probably read later. Much later. Sorry, another no go from me.
(embarrassingly) Cosmopolitan
Cry, sniff, I used to love this magazine. The cover told me it had “fierce fashion, super glam looks….” ‘fraid not. I knew it was full of relationship BS but it used to have great editorials and fashion spreads. I used to find great pics that I would cut out and keep in little scrap books. And I’ve got plenty of these little style books - that’s what I call them. Sadly, this mag had nothing to write home about. Ciao.
See above. Cover had “look lush for less”. Very unlush to me.
My point is that I couldn’t see myself pitching an editorial storyline for any of these magazines to feature my jewelry – well, I mean for them to just look at my jewelry – and I was beginning to despair until I remembered one last magazine that I had forked out for:
At last. Exclamation points abound! Love this magazine. I’ve folded the corners on so may pages and articles that I may even be back next month for my magazine fill. Hurrah!
White Skull - Voodoo Earrings by Glamour Twinkles - available soon
I’m now back at my Girl Friday job in the big city and this past week has been rather distracting with new Twitter followers beeping my phone, blogs to read and pesky office work interrupting my dreams of featuring in print. But then, my job keeps me in the lifestyle I am accustomed to so I’m getting my head back in the work game. And as such I’ll really need to come up with a work plan if I want to keep up with all the Glamour Twinkly things I need to do to get my “bling” out there. Quite unlikely if I ever again refer to my jewelry line as “bling” argh!
This weekend has seen me in full photo shoot mode with the new items I’ve made these last two weeks (too many sunny days do not a good photo shoot make). Oh, and last night I got the shocking email from Picnik telling me they were closing. You know that moment when you read something so unbelievable that you must read it a couple of time before it sinks in? That was me last night as I prepped my dindins. I read the email and (being the habitual paranormal/hoax footage skeptic I am) I was waiting for the punch line. No, Picnik will be gone and Google+ will “take over many of their awesome features”. It all happens on 19 April 2012. As you can probably tell I really love using Picnik. It is an awesome photo editing system. But the show must go on. Thank goodness I always saved my edits to my PC and not on their servers. There must be some frantic saving going on in cyber space right now. So that’s been my past week.
Orange Bear French Fries - Cutie Pie Milkshake bracelet - photoshoot results
