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Valentines Day Heart Vintage Jewelry
Valentines Day is just around the corner. Have you bought yourself a piece of vintage heart jewelry lately?
Shopping At Renningers For Jewelry
I found lots of great vintage jewelry – fine and costume – at Renninger’s Antique Market in Mount Dora Florida yesterday. I’ll be featuring it in my eBay shop. Check out my pretty finds……
Collecting Vintage Costume Pins And Brooches
I’ve been collecting vintage charms and creating bracelets, as well as selling them for a while now, and lately I’ve started to collect vintage costume jewelry lately. Pins and brooches in particular. I love the figural shaped pins and pins with colored stones the most I think.
Happy Birthday Charm Chatter – Youre Three Years Old
August 31 is the day I posted my first blog post ever right here on Charm Chatter, exactly 3 years ago. At the time I had no idea how to operate wordpress and had a fit of a time getting it installed. It was a lot harder back then. But I persevered and wrote that [...]
Charm Bracelets To Wear On Your Feet
Did you know the wrist isn’t the only body part you can adorn with charm bracelets? Look at these old fashioned Keds shoes I found on the Zazzle site with a charm bracelet print. I may have to start a charm bracelet shoe collection. They would definitely be quieter, cheaper too!
Nothing Says Merry Christmas Like An $11 Million Tree
As you probably know if you spend any time reading Charm Chatter I love jewelry. Mostly charm bracelets but I like all jewelry really.
Where Do You Buy Vintage Charms?
I get this question from customers from time to time and the answer is “from various sources”. I live in central Florida and the antiquing prospects here aren’t as robust as in the midwest or northeast United States. It’s just not easy to find nice charms at the antique fairs in my area.
Vintage Charm Bracelet Storage Decisions
I’m planning my trip to the annual charm convention where members of my charm group meet up and share our collections and charm stories. This year I’m going to need a new vintage jewelry storage solution.
Celebrating Jeanette Cates 30 Day Blog Challenge Finale
Today is the last day of the blog challenge I participated in for the month of June. I’m proud to say that I kept up and was able to write a blog post each day. Even though the posts only had to be 150 words or more, it was still quite a task for me to come up with a topic each day and research enough to write a concise article.
Summer Travel Sale on CharmCraze-y’s eBay Site
Through the end of June I’m offering a 20% discount on all travel related souvenir charms in my eBay store. Summer is here and people are planning their vacations so it seems appropriate to give a discount on charms that commemorate summer trips. Actually I’m trying to clear out some inventory from my eBay store as I’m moving a portion of it over to my Ruby Plaza shop, CharmCrazey Too.
CharmCrazey Too On Ruby Plaza
After several years of selling successfully on ebay I’ve decided to change my focus. In April of this year the Ruby Lane marketplace introduced its new sales venue, Ruby Plaza. This site is designed to offer a wider range of items than its parent site by allowing sellers to list new items in the areas of home décor, jewelry, and handcrafted items.
Stamps.Com Integrates With Zen Cart – Good News For Me
Today I read the announcement that Stamps.com has integrated it’s postage software with the Zen Cart open source shopping cart program. I’m delighted because my new website The Charm Cellar runs on that platform. Until now I had to manually input customer information into the Pay Pal shipping program in order to print a label. Now I will be able to import shipping data directly from my website, even if a customer pays by check or money order.
30 Day Blog Challenge
I’ve thrown my hat into the ring and decided to participate in Jeanette Cate’s 30 day blog challenge starting June 1 (today). I will be writing a short blog post every day this month. The objective is to cultivate my writing skills, build blog traffic, focus deeper into my vintage jewelry niche, and build on-line relationships.
CharmCrazey Too Ruby Plaza Flagship Store
I’m very excited to announce my new Flagship sales venue on Ruby Plaza, called CharmCrazey Too. Ruby Plaza is a sister site to Ruby Lane that accepts a wider range of merchandise. For the moment I’ve got some vintage charms for sale and also all sizes of my Snapeez jump rings.
Charm Chatter Gets Friendly Link Juice
Last night when I got home from work I had a nice surprise awaiting me. My friend Sally K from Diary of a Dishie sent me an email letting me know that Charm Chatter had been mentioned in a feature article about Charm Beads on the Auction Bytes Collectors Corner website. Okay to be honest [...]
Vintage – Almost Antique 14K Gold Charm Bracelet – A Sad Story
This is one of the most beautiful solid gold bracelets I’ve seen. The charms are huge and have tons of detail and are adorned with large jewels. It belongs to a friend of mine who acquired it from his mother’s estate after her passing.
Vintage Silver and Enamel Travel Shield Charms
These beautiful and brightly colored shield charms are fun to collect and they’re on sale for 20% off through the end of April in my Charmcraze-y ebay store. One can make a collection from any number of themes, from places you’ve visited to different flowers of the world.
Lovely Charms and Charming Dinnerware – A Heavenly Match
Fitzcharming’s first guest blog post – Written by Sally K of Diary of a Dishie. “I’ve never worn much jewelry, but charms have become more tempting since I’ve seen so many beautiful things here on CharmChatter. Dishes are my first love, and I never knew there was such a similar variety and beauty to be found in silver, gold and enameled charms.”
Vintage Charm Bracelet With Springtime Enamels
Just thought I’d post a photo of a vintage charm bracelet I just received in the mail. I bought it on ebay. It’s mostly sterling silver, and all enamels, and there are several Thomas L. Mott charms.
The Charm Cellar is Open for Business
It’s been a while since I started visualizing having my own site where I sell vintage charms. About a year ago I began with a vision and now it’s finally ready.
Thomas L Mott – Vintage TLM Charms For Sale
I’m a big collector of Thomas L Mott vintage charms. As I sorted through my collection recently I realized that I have a few duplicates and have decided to offer them for sale. Most are bright and pretty enamels and some are sterling silver with a warm vintage patina.
Cincinnati Charm Convention – The Last Day
Sunday was the final official day of the charm gathering. We got up early in the morning and several of us went to an antique / flea market in Indiana. The rest stayed at the hotel and did more charm sharing. I was one of the antique market folks. Sandy accompanied us on our fun field trip. I haven’t been able to find the quality of antique markets in Central Florida that there are in the Midwest so I was anxious to check it out.
Cincinnati Charm Convention – Day Two – Part Two
So after a day of complete charm overload on Saturday, we continued to celebrate into the night. Sandy and Pam’s “personal jewelers” threw us a private cocktail party at Krombholz jewelry store. Representatives from Hug Jewelers were also there and they both had a huge spread of new and vintage charms and bracelets for us to purchase.
Cincinnati Charm Convention – Day Two – Part One
Day two of Convention was so fun filled that it deserves two separate posts. So continuing with the details of my glorious weekend with my fellow charmers, beginning with a Saturday morning brunch at Lisa C’s house and then a charm marathon at the hotel………
