Jewellery, Clothes and Fashion Shows

Another way to make money is to combine your jewellery craft with sewing craft. If you are not a seamstress, try to find someone suitable to team up with. There are many possibilities when combining beads with clothing. Here are a few ideas other than making matching jewellery for the clothing: 1. I love large pockets but the clothes I buy seldom have large pockets. I have made pockets for my clothes and embroidered it with matching beads with great success. You might even find you could buy a simple cheap piece of clothing and jazz it up with some beaded pockets. 2. It is very easy to make a lovely broach with a safety pin. Simply bend the safety pin right open, slip your beads on and close it again by bending it back around the way it was before. Note the holes of the beads must be fairly big to fit over the wire of the safety pin. These can be used to pin scarves up or simply to decorate a garment. 3. You could embroider directly on a garment by ironing stiffening onto the back of the garment. Make sure you use beads that will last with frequent washes. Glass beads will be fine. The embroidery could either be used to enhance the pattern in the fabric or you could draw your own pattern to embroider. 4. What also works well is adding a beaded edge to either clothing or scarves. Most women love fashion shows but seldom seem to get the opportunity to attend them. Most people seemed to think you have to have super models to have a fashion show who charge a fortune for their service. But that is not necessary at all. These models usually look anorexic which immediately disqualify their clothing as a consideration for me. I know for myself that I seldom see suitable clothing for myself at fashion shows. The shows are usually either for a shop who try to market their products, which I have already seen and find boring, or from a fashion house that are so way out that I would not be seen dead in it. I have also noticed that there are usually very little jewellery in these shows. I believe there is a great gap in the fashion market for fashion shows with hand crafted artistic clothes and jewellery. Shows that have artistic flair without going overboard and will appeal to the majority of citizens. Your models also need not be anorexic super models or need not even be that young. Anybody who has personality and confidence, can model. If you see with what success school concerts are presented by ordinary learners, one realise how easy it should be model. You might even want to combine a bit of acting or other talents with your show. There are many ways in which you could make money out of a fashion show. 1. You could charge an entrance fee. 2. You can sell your products. 3. You could sell refreshments. 4. You could have stalls for other hand crafted products and charge for the stalls or take a percentage of the sales. 5. You could make it into a package that could be part of a special occasion like a kitchen tea, stork party or just birthday party. The shows can be held at private homes or more public venues like school halls. You could combine it with a charitable occasion or a function to collect money for an institution like a school. This could be great fun. The possibilities are endless. Just think how many friends and clients you could get.