Italian Charm Bracelets

[ellenmillion]

Love them?

Hate them?

Never heard of them?

I'm thinking of adding an exclusive line of these things to EMG.

Comments

[jemstone.livejournal.com]

You can get charm bracelets, but you can't get girly-tees? What kind of conspiracy is this?!

You're forcing me to go to cafe press, Ellen. Don't make me do that. ;)

(If you do add them, I'm looking forward to seeing them, even if they're not my thing)

-JEM

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Alright, alright! I suck, but I wouldn't want to back you into using cafepress...

*searches for a while*

Finally found a place that will let me order less than a zillion and mix-n-match colors and sizes! (And charges less than $16 a pop) I vill order some today.

[jemstone.livejournal.com]

Keen. Now all I need are a couple more designs and someplace to advertise and I can feel better about using your services than I did about doing so for just ONE design.

I felt really bad about that, you know - I don't want to waste your space on one design. :(

But now, I can make, as Doug Henning would say... Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaagic!

-JEM

[renatus.livejournal.com]

I think they're great - I love charm bracelets, have one of the regular kind, myself - I just can't afford them. Would you be getting your own line of charms made, or something? That would definitely entice me towards getting one >_>

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

*grin* I'd be making my own, actually... though if I decide to go at this full-tilt, I can get my logo stamped on the back of the links, too. (Pretty hefty minimum order for that, though.)

[winterswitchery.livejournal.com]

What are they?

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Here's a site that explains them: http://www.italiancharmcompany.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=_TIP

[winterswitchery.livejournal.com]

Ooooo okay. They're neat, but I'm not a bracelet wearing girl anyway. They always pinch my arm hair.. =/;;

[ht.livejournal.com]

Oooh those. They're alright, but I personally wouldn't buy them. They'll date.

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I wouldn't buy 'em either. But I'm a shameless enough capitalist to take advantage of a trend if I can... >.>

[jaenanda.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of EMG jewelry, but I agree with the post above. Those'll date.

Pendants, dangly charm bracelets, and earrings are what I'd be interested in seeing. Those are much more classic styles.

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Aye... that's my biggest concern with them, too. But I haven't found a good way to make more classical pieces of EMG designs. I'll keep looking. But I might try this out in some small facet, too...

[millennialhippy.livejournal.com]

I have Zopini, but that's because my cousin owns a jewelry store and that side of the family always gives me jewelry at every applicable holiday and graduation.

I don't understand why you would sell them, though, unless you can get your designs printed on them? That's neat, but you'd have to really advertise to people who already wear those kinds of bracelets. And is it that big of a trend? Most people, unless they wear the generic kind, don't really look outside of their brand for the charm links.

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

They would indeed have tiny EMG designs on them, and I'd only have to make them on-demand (I wouldn't have to order a billion of one single design or anything...). The kind I'm looking at are Zopini-compatible, and I'd want to do some wholesale marketing to shops that already carry the things. I'm going to go talk to a gal I know in town that sells them and see how the market is. (And whether she'd buy them wholesale from me.)

[ciri.livejournal.com]

I see a lot of the stores around (ok I really only see them in the Mall of America) and people always mention giving them to bridesmaids over in weddingplans but I've never actually seen anyone wearing one.

I'd be worried that the fad would die out right when you got everything together for it.

However, I probably would buy a charm-thingy to wear as a pendant. (I don't wear bracelets much anyways.)

[songblade.livejournal.com]

ahhhh those :( Unfortunately, I have a bracelet that I just put dangly charms on once in a while (haha, one says "wish")... if they were dangly fairies and such, I'd get 'em :)

[maery.livejournal.com]

I'd buy a few. But then again, I'm addicted to jewelery.