All Entries in the "About Me and My Business" Category
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………
Cincinnati Charm Convention 2009
A couple of weeks ago I attended the very first national meeting of the “Joan’s Vintage Charm and Charm Bracelets” group. We met in Cincinnati and so our first event was called the Cincinnati Charm Convention.
News About My Vintage Jewelry Business
My new website “The Charm Cellar” should be ready soon. I am eagerly looking forward to testing my skills at selling vintage charms on my very own independent site. Also I bought a new program called Phpbay that allows me to showcase my favorite ebay categories and searches on my blog pages.
Snapeez Locking Jump Rings Free with Every Vintage Charm Purchase
It’s a new marketing strategy I’m rolling out. These are amazing little devices that snap shut pretty securely when used to attach a charm to a charm bracelet. I haven’t lost a charm yet and I’ve been using them for a while now. And they are much less expensive than soldering by a jeweler. It’s [...]
Contact Me
My name is Wanda Fitzgerald and I sell vintage jewelry, specializing in charms and charm bracelets, from a variety of venues. You can view all of my jewelry which is personally selected from around the world from the links on this page. I offer a money back guarantee on everything I sell as I realize [...]
Fitzcharming – About Me
My name is Wanda Fitzgerald and I live in Central Florida. I’m a CPA currently working as a Senior Income Tax Analyst at Darden Restaurants, and previously worked at Ernst & Young LLP in the field of tax compliance for 12 years. I’m a CPA by profession but my passion is collecting things. Charm bracelets [...]
Charmcrazey’s New Prince Charming Logo
This is fitzcharming. He’s my new logo graphic and I’ll be working on changing out all my internet and printed material in the next few days and weeks. Don’t you just LOVE him? He comes in many different poses so I believe he will be very versatile in my business. He’s sans charm bracelets at [...]
Fitzcharming is Now an “Expert” Ezine Author
I recently submitted a series of posts that I had written here on my blog last fall as an article to the ezine website for publication. I had to tidy it up a bit into an article format first but that was easy. The submission process was quite simple, first I registered for an account [...]
