After nearly two years I'm finally returning to the Jewellery Pot blog. Not ideal I grant you to leave it so long but with the business growing constantly and dualled with personal events (some good- some bad) something had to take a back burner.

Jewellery Pot was represented at many Summer fetes, shopping evenings and Xmas fayres resulting in more and more parties being held with consultants recruited to help with the parties that were filling our diaries.

Fair Trade

Spent this week sourcing stock. Because the range is constantly changing a lot of my time is spent doing this. Have ordered some lovely new lines from Donna - a great jewellery designer I have bought from before, and have finally found two companies from which I can get ethically sourced jewellery. I'm looking forward to the stock arriving and showcasing this weekend. Jewellery Pot will be at the indulgence evening in Langenhoe on Friday and also at the school fayre in Nayland on the Saturday this week.

What next?

Well once the website was up and running I decided to add a blog.
As I said at the beginning I'm a complete novice so I started by giving a brief insight into why, how and when I started Jewellery Pot.

Here on I can tell you about whats happening as it happens.
I now stock a wide variety of costume and silver jewellery and small gifts but would still like to look at supporting fair trade within my business. At the moment I am sourcing companies and hope to continue expanding the range Jewellery Pot offers.

Website goes live

Once the basic format was set up I got on the case changing colours, fonts and formats but it was the stock that really consumed me.
Photographing a necklace isn't hard but doing it well is more of a challenge. Then there were descriptions, information pages and last but not least optimisation - mmmm what was I letting myself in for? Well basically hours and hours of being back in the office. Hours turned into weeks then months before the Jewellery Pot website surfaced on the net in spring 2008

Demand for a website

It was in 2008 after another busy Christmas that I decided to have a go at building a website. I was keen to offer good customer service and whenever individual requests for jewellery were made I tried hard to accommodate knowing that not everyone can host a party. But the reality was it was time consuming and not always practical to be available for someone to choose on a one to one basis. What I needed was a website where the shop was truly open 24/7 and a good range was available to choose from. HELP!! Luckily the 'other half' was on hand to help.

Farm, fetes and fairs

The following year saw me attending numerous fetes, fairs and shopping evenings. Some were good - some not so good but they all helped to promote the brand and get party bookings.
For those that knew me, my shop was never closed and I would often get calls from those close by in need of a last minute present.
With this in mind I teamed up with the local farm shop to have a small selection of Jewellery Pot for sale there.