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Flower Dog Necklace Set

Flower Dog Necklace Set This is my latest Creation. One lady thought it was beautiful and bought it but only reason she sent it back was because she had a tiny tea cup puppy and the bead was too big for her. Hopeing I can get a great sell on this sooner or later to give me a idea of wether I should make more of these or not

How to Make your own dog necklace

I decided after googleing myself. There are no posts or instructions on how to make your own dog necklace. If their are it is usually using very expensive items. You do not have to go expensive at all. Its best not to considering your dog may very well just chew or lick it, or in some cases hide it. Unforunately mine haven't done that and like the necklaces to a point. I bought a few from others, but nothing is better than your own handmade item.





Things you will need:


Stretch Magic Beading cord size .5mm or 1mm


2 diffrent sizes of colorful beads


Scissors


Lobster clamp or Toggel- depends on what you like best


Yard stick or ruler





To start off Measure your dogs neck. Take a strip of paper and put it around your dogs neck. Mark where their neck size with a dash. Take a ruler and measure where the dash stops. This will be your dogs neck size. Now add 2" to what ever size your dogs neck is. If your dogs size is over 12" use a yard stick, but remember to always add 2" to the size. We want your dog to beleve its just another collar.





Once that is done get your stretch magic beading cord and your lobster claw or toggle and tie the beading cord to the lobster claw. Make sure to pull over and over to make sure the cord does not come loose from the claw or toggle.



Once that is down take the beads and string them to your likeing. Make sure to always match colors and make the pattern unique. No necklace is special with out a charm ether. Once you get to the middle of your necklace. Place the charm on the necklace. When selecting charms do not get a very large charm. Charm should be small but not have a sharp end. The sharp end could hurt your dog if he or she runs and falls or worse. The best charms to buy are the ones that are used for children jewelry. They are child proof so are very much save for dogs as well, But again make sure the charm is not bigger than a table spoon. If so that is way!!! to big. Always go for something small and cute. Remember be unique.



Once that is done string the rest of your beads on. Then tie the other end of your closure on to your string of beads. Lobster claws would use little loops. To me that is very hard to tie on, but it can be done. Be sure to tie it so it will not pop aloose. Test it!! Pull one end of the string and pull the other end. If it comes loose tie it again more than one time. The more knots the more it will not come loose. Some people have said they burn it to make sure it doesn't come loose, but that isn't my method.



Once that is done be sure to test again. Test over and over. You do not want your necklace breaking and your dog eating it. Once you are sure your necklace will not come apart. Put it on your dogs neck. Be sure to watch it on your dogs neck. If you see one sign of it falling apart you must act fast to grab the beads. If it doesn't come apart and your dog doesn't even know its their then you have just created your first dog necklace. Once you created one you will want to create more and more. Who knows you could end up selling them on some site.



Thanks for reason my guide on making dog necklaces. Hope this was helpful. Remember be creative and unique.

Made my first pair of ear rings today. Found it hard in a way. I dont think the design is as I want it but I will keep playing around with it. Who knows May make some great dog themed ear rings

Marketing

ugh Marketing and getting your stuff known is so hard. Everyday I List more items. I find forums to put my stuff out there. Even started this blog but I guess rome wasn't built in 2 months. Everyone seems to think I have great ideas. Just these ideas arn't becomeing known. I have a awsome idea of letting other people who sell products sell on my website. Only problem is people are very snooty and probley won't want to do it. Today I was on one forum. Guy gave me great advice for my website. I rely and try to market so much on etsy I forget about my main website. So redid it a lot today. Looks great. I just have no clue why everything I fix people have a problem with. I fix what every they do not like and bam theres another problem. I dont think everyones site is ever perfect. Oh well. I continuse to keep trying on etsy. More and more the people there are discourageing me. So hard to get people to buy your stuff. Have 90 views. 90 VIEWS!! are you kidding me and not one of them wanted to buy it. Soooo whats keeping people from buying. I ask in etsy and most say pictures........... WHAT THE HECK DOES PICTURES HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING. sure you use pictures to show your items. Let the customer see what he is buying or sizing. But as long as they SEE the picture what the heck is the problem. Is it really that deep to have the greatest pictures in etsy? Really I dont think that should be stopping people from buying. I even seen this strange guy selling animal parts statues and road kill statues which I thought was discusting. But ok yah. Well Guess ill keep trying to get a sell on etsy. God I surely get more sells selling at the flea market but I want to be a professional so TRY NUMBER 52893

My New Toys

Mom finnally got me a necklace stand. Iam so happy about it. Makes my pictures look better but pictures still need some work. It inspired me to make 2 more necklaces just to have a excuse to use it. I also got some back grounds. I figured why buy cloth back ground. Looks so tacky. So I made my own. I got some paper I wanted from the store. then glued it to some card board. Made it seem as tho it was the wall. Lol I want to go back to the craft store to get more, but until I make another sell. No more toys for me. Even tho I did order a few ring stands to display my bows on. BUT NO MORE TOYS