Compromise anyone?

We are feeling the full force of our varied tastes and opinions as we try to reach consensus about things like background colors, fonts, patterns, etc. Ami has been on the fast track gaining abundant amounts of knowledge about web design and polling us regularly about those very important topics of color and text. Poor thing! She asks five different people for an opinion and gets five different answers.

I'm designing a little two-page brochure (nothing compared to Ami's mammoth assignment) to send to our good friend Val in Cornwall, England, so that she can have something to provide potential customers with information about us in our absence.

(But don't we all wish we could actually be there across the pond peddling our own stuff?..............oh yeah..............)

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Huh? Where was I?

Anyway, everyone keeps apologizing for giving me feedback on the brochure, which is so like my very polite and thoughtful friends. I do appreciate their comments as this is to represent them more than me...that's kind of the point really. But I also empathize with Ami as she regularly receives five very different answers to each question she poses.

It is not easy to keep everyone happy, but we all know this and are ready and willing to compromise on many things. Except the quality of our materials and handiwork. On this we will never bend.

So here's to color, text, feedback and compromise. We can feel the launch of the website approaching....GO AMI!!!!

2010

Lynnie predicts that 2010 is going to be a big year.

Below are some of our preparations for this new decade:

1. After much debate and email banter, the artists have each selected individual logos to represent their pieces*,
2. Kathleen decided on a name for her line: Per Lei,
3. Ami is continuing to build the website, making color selections and carefully piecing together each component,
4. Amy the T has bolstered her headband designing and is working up some darling creations,
5. Lynn has created some absolutely precious pieces for little girls, some that will even adorn baby princesses,
6. Kami is lining up parties and recrafting her sales expertise to match our goals,
7. And I, Jayne, am trying to remember to post things to the blog once in a while.

* There was a ridiculously lengthy conversation about what to call and what to do with a part of one of the proposed elements of the design for Sparkling Elegance: was it a doodah? a flourish? a swoopee? And does the logo look better with or without this little addition?

There was also a resounding commitment to the following statement:

"We don't use no stinkin' silver plate!"

Actually, no one said it quite that eloquently. Lynn reported that she met a designer who had some success at a consignment shop because she started using silver plate to decrease the cost of her creations. The collective response, which included Lynn's own opinion was, "Well, good for her, but we don't work like that."

So, it is evident that these artists are committed to quality.

"It's all silver or all gold or nothin', Baby!"

And one phrase that causes us to swoop down, capes and all, from tall buildings in single bounds to provide relief to friends and potential customers who come bearing their jewelry quandries is

"I need something to match this..."

Yeah, we can take care of that for you.

Happy New Year!