Rose of Sharon Jewelry

Save 15% on handmade jewelry gift certificates at Rose of Sharon Jewelry. Jewelry gift certificates are very popular!

Handmade jewelry is a uniquely intimate choice – like buying art to wear. Gift certificates are a great way to give her a special gift and ensure that she’ll love it. Perhaps she wants to accent a special outfit or is looking for some daily “go to” jewelry – she’ll be able to choose from over 300 one-of-a-kind handmade jewelry designs in our 4 online stores.

Certificates are good for any of the following ROSJ stores.

• Rose of Sharon Jewelry - handmade artisan jewelry with crystals, gems and precious metals
• A.F.F. Jewelry – affordable, fun necklaces, watches, earrings, bracelets
• Adornable Anklets - handmade anklets - the most joyous jewelry - GREAT STOCKING STUFFERS
• New Life Jewelry Art - handmade jewelry using vintage beads, rosaries and mixed media designs

Please note:

Due to Etsy and ArtFire requirements, there will be some special steps required to use these certificates. We’ll do our best to make shopping at these stores convenient but unfortunately the venue has set processes we must follow.

In our artisan store – Rose of Sharon Jewelry – you’ll simply use the gift certificate code to make a purchase and you don’t need to spend it all at once!

Bewitching from Sandra Lee is a 3-piece necklace set available in our main store.

Tantrum Tues. posts are moving to my writing blog at Writes a Lot.com. At the ROSJ blog, it’s now Tantalizing Tuesday – mouthwatering, juicy posts that add sweetness, spice and passion to life!

I love writing the Tantrum Tuesday rants but I decided in the shower this morning (I do some of my best thinking there) that the Rose of Sharon Jewelry blog should totally focus on the positive.

Tantalizing Tuesday will be just as interesting (hopefully you’ll agree) as I talk about jewelry (of course!) and other topics that make life more joyous, more beautiful and more exciting!

The first Tantalizing Tuesday post will appear later this morning!

If you’d like to keep up with my tantrums and rants, I’d love to have you become a Writes a Lot blog subscriber.

You won’t be bombarded with daily posts but what you’ll find there will be worth an occasional quick read.

If you love to write or are interested in a writing career, I’ll be having conversations about the business, creative and personal aspects of being a writer/blogger.

Thanks everyone for all your support of Tantrum Tuesday – I’ll keep stomping my feet just in another location!

Congratulations to Christine Cazares - whose birthday was June 20th! Christine won a lovely green heart anklet from the new AdornableAnkets line as part of our Birthday Club membership.

Christine will be receiving the fun and colorful anklet (shown below).

Every month, we draw a name from the club members born during that month. June’s drawing will be followed with July’s next week. (Thanks every one for your patience.)

It’s not too late to join for our July drawing where we will be giving away a beaded watch from our upcoming Time Will Tell line which will be part of our A.F.F. Jewelry Collection at Etsy.

Join the Rose of Sharon Jewelry Birthday Club. It’s free! Besides our monthly handmade jewelry giveaway, you’ll receive regular newsletters, special sale notices and member only discounts.

• Love our anklets? Check out the Adornable Anklets store.

• Interested in other affordable handmade jewelry? Check out the A.F.F. Jewelry collection. We’re adding new items every day!

Rose of Sharon Jewelry is celebrating Sandra Lee’s birthday with a June sale. Save 10% on her designs + free earrings + free shipping.

Save 10%

Jewelry artist, Sandra Lee is having a birthday and a celebration is in order! Her beautiful original designs are all on sale during the month of June. You can save 10% this month plus. . . 

Receive free earrings

You will receive a free pair of earrings with your Rose of Sharon Jewelry purchase from our main web site plus. . .

Free standard shipping

Your order will ship free from our Sparks, NV studio via 1st class mail!

Maiden’s Blush is just one of the fabulous one-of-a-kind necklace sets created by Sandra Lee. Her unique styling is bold, colorful and full of confidence.

You’ll find a wide assortment of necklaces and necklace sets created by Sandra Lee on sale in June as part of her birthday celebration!

Don’t miss out on the Rose of Sharon Jewelry May 10/10 sale on handmade artisan jewelry. Last day is May 31st to save 10% plus we’ll donate 10% to help cure Cystic Fibrosis.

Learn more about Cystic Fibrosis today.

It’s time for a facelift on the Rose of Sharon Jewelry blog. I’m a big believer in change (loving my new bronze/red hair), and the  blog needs a new look! 

I love the color scheme but this Wordpress theme was never the best for functionality and readability for us old gals. The change will be an all or nothing swap-out so as to not create too much havoc with readers but beware some things will go wrong as they always do with computers.

Topic Schedule To Be Introduced Soon

A more important part of the blog refresh is a topic schedule. This will help keep me on track and readers will know what day they can find their favorite topics.

I am not a linear person so posts are often just what grabs my attention that day and sometimes it gets written in the wee hours (not a good thing if you want to make sense). Now when I say a schedule, I don’t mean something rigid and non-creative!

I’m dividing the topic categories over the week as follows (I reserve the right to change my mind before an “official” announcement is made and I am open to suggestions and help).

1. Mellow Monday – all things creative, peaceful, Zen-like and positive – a great way to set a positive path for the week.
2. Tantrum Tuesday – ramblings, rants, raves and things that make you say “you’ve got to be kidding”. I have to admit I’m excited about Tuesday as I’m never without an opinion or comment. Laughs will be encouraged on Tuesdays because you have to laugh or go crazy.
3. Wednesday Wealth – sharing a wealth of information on adding “wealth” to your life – emotionally, physically and financially.
4. Thankful Thursday – things to be thankful for such as family, friends and food. I’ll share my other creative adventures beside jewelry on Thursdays too.
5. Friday Finds – posts on handmade finds have always been popular for readers and me so I’ll continue to share what others are making
6. “Sharon” Saturday – all things related to Rose of Sharon Jewelry – got to plug our love of beads and great jewelry products and Saturday seems like a great day to do just that. Don;t worry I’ll still share new releases on other days when I just cannot wait!
7. Silent Sunday – and on the 7th day She rested! Most Sundays will be postless (is that a word?) but you may find an inspirational quote or a great photo on Sunday

I’d love to hear your ideas for topics/categories/rants/finds etc. Comment below please or leave a message on the Rose of Sharon Jewelry Facebook Fan Page.

The jewelry care series will continue tomorrow (Thursday) if you are wondering.

Our free newsletter/marketing tool – the Rose of Sharon Jewelry Birthday Club – was a small success its first year. When several freebie sites posted a link 3 weeks ago, we were hit with over 2,000 subscribers in 3 days! Never in my wildest dreams did I think we would be “mined” and shared like this.

The Birthday Club was created to encourage interested Rose of Sharon Jewelry blog readers and handmade jewelry lovers to keep in touch. Our web site is clear about what the club is – a marketing newsletter.

As a thank you to members, we give you a free (shipping included) pair of handmade earrings or,  if you prefer, a generous jewelry discount coupon during your birthday month. The only requirement is you must return to the site, “buy” the earrings (the coupon covers all costs) and provide us with a mailing address. This is pretty standard practice for any type of email marketing. We do not sell, share or otherwise use the info provided except for our basic marketing emails and you can unsubscribe immediately at any time.

We are a small partnership of women working together to market our handmade jewelry so supplying over 2,000 pairs of earrings will be beyond our budget. However, I decided that we are honorable so we should do our best to fulfill our promise. But after this weekend, I’m having some serious second thoughts.

Traffic – Yes.  Marketing Value – No?

While I do love having the traffic and many people sent thanks and wonderful comments about our jewelry, there is a dark side to this goodwill marketing effort.You see I have several Google alerts which forward me whenever Rose of Sharon Jewelry is mentioned. That’s  when I started reading less than positive messages about our club and free jewelry offering. I also started noticing that a mathematically impossible number of April birthdays were supplied by subscribers.

The word of mouth in freebie forums has been a bit ugly. I have read posts where people set up fathers and brothers and anyone else so they could get free jewelry every month. Many people thought this offer was a scam and would only receive the earring after a purchase or would require expensive postage – all untrue if they had actually read our Birthday Club enrollment message.

I’m a freebie participant too but I think I will rethink this as frankly, I’m really conflicted and upset. I am proceeding with setting up the subscriber base. There is some significant manual data entry required as our Constant Contact form was not fully implemented.

The purpose of this post is to share the important lesson of “be careful what you wish for.” Hopefully, you’ll be able to avoid the pitfalls of offering freebies as a marketing incentive.

Any thoughts? I’d love to hear some feedback.

Social networking is hot for businesses – at least that’s what we’ve been told. So I’ve devoted my waking hours to promoting Rose of Sharon Jewelry via Facebook, Twitter and this lonely blog for months.  We’ve been blessed with Rose of Sharon fans and personal Sharon Fullen friends and store traffic is growing rapidly. I’m loving connecting with everyone and sharing a love of handmade arts and crafts BUT

where are the sales?

I’m not a newbie marketer but social networking as a marketing tool is still pretty new. There are tons of “experts” telling us what to do and how sites like Twitter and Facebook can level the playing field for small businesses like Rose of Sharon Jewelry.

What I’d like to know is how well Social Networking is working for your business? How much time to do spend every day in keeping up with tweets and wall posts?

I’m spending so much time talking to everyone online that my studio time is really an afterthought. And that’s not why I launched Rose of Sharon Jewelry.

I’d love to hear from everyone about their real-world experiences and thoughts about their marketing via the Internet.

Thanks,