Now available at HardtoFind.

I'm very excited!! Some of my everyday handmade necklaces and bracelets have been chosen to showcase at hardtofind.com.au

hardtofind. is a shopping website featuring beautifully designed, hand-made or unique products – homewares, gifts, kids’ stuff and accessories – that are not easily found elsewhere.

The most popular purchase from my mini-store is the Simple Personalised Initial and Pearl Bracelet gift for $23.00, with free shipping! 

Find it here:  Simple Personalised Initial and Pearl Bracelet gift for $23.00..

Also please take time to check out their fantastic website full of lots of wonderful goodies, and of course our beds too!
Click on link www.hardtofind.com.au

Personalized Intial Birthstone Bracelets

Last year, a friend asked if I could make a bracelet with an initial, personalized birthstone and pearl for his girlfriend as a birthday gift. I made the bracelet then, when she received it, her girlfriend asked where she got it from and ever sine then I have been making them. During this time, I have taken of them and now eventually have time to upload the images here.

They are available at my ETSY store for $24.50 each: https://www.etsy.com/listing/100580349/personalized-pearl-initial-disc-and

Starfish and Birthstone Bridesmaid Necklace - Custom order

Over the past few weeks custom orders have been slow, however this week I was asked to make a custom Starfish and Birthstone Bridesmaid Necklace and thought I'ld post it on the blog, so that you may see the pretty necklaces...

Each necklace is made up of a birthstone crystal and starfish charm on a silver chain for each the bride's bridesmaids. The type necklace can be converted to a bracelet and is ideal for a beach or sea-side theme wedding. 
A smaller necklace or bracelet can be made for flower girls and maids of honour. 

Each Starfish Beach Theme Bridesmaid Necklace is $20 

and Bracelet $19.50

Available in my etsy store: RBJohnson.etsy.com 

Bridesmaid gift necklaces for $12.50

5 Bridesmaids Jewelry Gift Necklaces, Simple & Elegant - gift under 15

This is a very popular bridesmaid gift: a simple, yet elegant single pearl and rondelle necklace (silver and gold available) for $12.50 for 3-5 necklaces.

Here is the listing: https://www.etsy.com/listing/72649399/5-bridesmaids-jewelry-gift-necklaces

The chain is 16.5 inches and can be extended on request at no extra cost up to 18.5cm.

Each necklace is presented in a lovely organza bag, ready for gift giving.
We can ship via registered airmail with tracking number for your assurance, on request.

For more beautiful handcrafted jewelry by me, please see http://www.rbjohnson.etsy.com

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BRIDESMAIDS and FLOWERGIRLS
Quantity discounts available!

• Buy 3-5 sets and receive 10% off
• Buy 6+ sets and receive 15% off

Please contact me prior to ordering, and I will set up a custom reserved listing with your discount applied.

New Design: Long Tear Drop Dangle Earrings with a pearl on Cubic Zirconia Ear Posts, Wedding Jewelry, Bridal Earrings

Here is a new design long teardrop bridal earrings: https://www.etsy.com/listing/111018066/long-tear-drop-dangle-earrings-with-a




These long elegant pair earrings features vintage looking cubic zirconia pear drop (13mm x 20mm ) with a pretty silver plated frame, connected by a pearl and a sparkling tear drop cubic zirconia stone that is beautifully framed with small stones around it.
They are light weight on the ears!
Earrings comes in a lovely organza bag, ready for gift giving.
We can ship via registered airmail with tracking number for your assurance, on request.
The length is of each earring measures about – 1.8" or 4.5cm
For more beautiful handcrafted jewelry by me, please see http://www.rbjohnson.etsy.com
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BRIDESMAIDS
Quantity discounts available!
Buy 3-5 sets and receive 10% off
Please contact me prior to ordering, and I will set up a custom reserved listing with your discount applied.










Buy 6+ sets and receive 15% off

Listing in Queensland Brides Magazine Spring 2012

Here is a link to the listing for Queensland Brides Magazine Spring 2012, Australia : http://www.queenslandbrides.com.au/directory/rbjohnson-designs

I have been so busy with special custom orders that I have not had time to update this blog in such a long time. My ETSY shop has now reached over 500 sales and has just over 170 testimonials.


Here is the listing if you do not click on the link above: 

UNIQUE, HAND MADE BRIDAL JEWELLERY

RBJohnson Designs is specialises in creating custom and affordable wedding jewellery, for the Bride, her bridesmaids, maids of honour, flower girls, her mother and even future mother-in-law.

You can order your own custom colour combinations so your own wedding jewellery and bridesmaid jewellery turn out perfectly unique and tailored to fit your colour scheme.

Pearls, Swarovski Elements (crystal) with silver and 14ct gold-filled are used for necklaces, earrings, bracelets and rings.

All pieces are handmade and inspired by simple, yet classic elegance, with grace and femininity! Each set is also packaged ready for gift giving.

RBJohnson Designs started as a hobby in late 2011, by Rishka at RBJohnson.etsy.com. In January 2012 this online shop become a wedding jewellery shop with over 400 bridal jewellery sales by June 2012, bridal reviews are available at this online shop.

For Bridesmaids and Flower girls, quantity discounts are available:

3-5 sets – 10% off
6-10 sets – 15% off
11+ - 20% off

All jewellery is handmade and made-to-order and usually takes 1- 7 business days to complete; some orders may take up to 4 weeks depending on the complexity, so please enquire/order at least one month before your wedding. Shipping within Australia takes 1-5 business days and internationally 3-15 business days.

Everything at RBJohnson is customizable, so whether you want a classic, beachy, glamorous, romantic or organic style, please ask and that a design can be made to suit your scheme/theme

400 sales on Etsy!

Woohoo!!!! Sneakily my ETSY store reached over 400 sales over the past few days !!!!!!!!!!!


So to celebrate, there is a sale until June 15, 2012 in my Etsy shops - RBJohnson Designs and Nuri Jewelry.

Use coupon code 400SALES at checkout for 20% off everything in both shops! That is including discounts that already apply!

Attending the ETSY Success Sydney 2012

On June 2, 2012, I am attending the ETSY Success Sydney, I won my ticket to attend through BrisStyle (a not for profit, which is a community of 220+ talented Artists from Brisbane/Gold Coast/ Northern NSW artists, crafters and designers). Find the competition entry here: BrisStyle Give-away ETSY Success 


So on Saturday morning, very, very early, I will be flying to Sydney from the Gold Coast, the take a train from the airport to the closest train station and walk up to the Art Museum for the day :) 


I am so excited to be attending this ETSY international event and meeting other Australian Etsy shop owners, all there to learn to achieve further success from their ETSY stores. 

Since I decided to change my hobby into a business January 1, 2012; my shop sales increased month on month. 
Making this decision I I began to relist 5- 10 listings every day, that were receiving views and sales; then I would make new designed items every 2-4 weeks, finally I added listings with combinations of items from my store with a slight discount and this took off a bit slow on sales at the beginning, but very popular choices.


Then I introduced discounts on multiple items in one order as follows: 
3-5 items the purchaser would receive 10% discount;
6-10 items, would entitle the purchaser to a 15% discount;
anything more than 10, the discount would be 20%..  


The combination of the above has helped the purchaser and myself :) The purchaser receives the quality items they require for a discount and I receive a sale ! 


Currently my etsy stores makes averages 2 sales a day within a day, which I feel is really good :) Compared to 1-2 per month before this..  Perhaps one day I will be featured in their Quit your Day Job blog! LOL 


For now, I am happy to be working full-time as a programmer in Education (a rewarding job) and then do this etsy shop as side business (just as satisfying!). My next entry would probably be of the Sydney ETSY success event, so see you then.. 


Click here for the program, if you are in Sydney on the day and wish to attend, hope to meet you there.

At Madam Sparrow Markets in Chirn Park on the Gold Coast, May 25

Yesterday, I was at the Madam Sparrow Markets in Chirn Park on the Gold Coast. It was a good day, the sun came out for the day, so people came out and we all had a some sales :) The ladies who bought from me, mostly bought the jewelry as gifts and were impressed that I provided the just purchased jewelry in an organza bag, ready for gift giving ... I don't like my handmade jewelry to leave the table in just a small plastic bag, each piece is special and have to be treated as such.

At this market yesterday, I had my new smaller table (1.5m), in order to transport and set up everything more easily, instead of dragging my husband and daughter out so very early in the morning and trying to pack in a big 1.8m table and the rest of the stuff in my car, travel with 2 cars, only for them to travel the 30 min back home and do the trip again the afternoon! So now I am able to pack out and setup alone in the mornings and they help me pack up the afternoon and we go for a late lunch out together!!!!

For the few nights before I tried various layouts on this new table, still wanting to use the black frames that I made for my jewelry display for this market, as I demonstrated on how to make a jewelry display for my market in November 2011... So I hope this table layout looked fine ! The only issue was I couldn't fit my straw bargain bowel for $5 earrings, bracelets and necklaces, but I will try another layout next time...

The jewelry I sell at the market is different to the jewelry I sell in my very busy etsy store RBJohnson Designs, so I had to open a new Etsy Store, Nuri Jewelry to sell my 'market' everyday range, which is still in its very infancy stages of it's online presence.

The word Nuri for the new shop, was made up by my daughter Nuhaa and is derived from the first 2 letters my daughter and my names (Nuhaa and Rishka)! She was very excited about this and so I just had to do it :)

Popular things that were bought were at the markets yesterday were:

Love Birds on a branch Necklace in Silver

A few pairs of Silver Leaf Earrings

The Silver Leaf Lariat Necklace

The new Droplet Necklace in Silver

Rose Necklace - Mostly as Mother's Day gifts :) 

And of course the ever popular Bird and Branch Leaf Lariat

So just to end off, I had a great time at the market yesterday and met a few new people and made new friends, the market has grown and is now spilling into the lane, where I stood yesterday.. I may not be able to make the next market, as I may attend the ETSY Sydney Success Symposium, but I will certainly be coming back to Madam Sparrow's Market later in the year...

Flower girl gift - strand pearl bracelet and single pearl necklace

Due to numerous requests, I began making flower girl sets in combination with the bridesmaid sets. Brides can now order jewelry gifts for their whole bridal party  :) all in one package.

The most popular set is the simple bracelet and single pearl necklace which is only $15.50 available at my etsy shop RBJohnson.etsy.com.. Each set is custom made by hand, so whoever wants this has to tell me what color pearls is required and the age/s of the flower girl, so that I can make each set age appropriate for each girl.