(Me and my dog. Photo by Bosley Creative.) My dear husband suggested that I write a post about all of the things I’ve learned while running my own business. So here goes the tell all of all of my dark secrets…
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Welcome to the new leahashley.com!
Friday, March 5, 2010
As you can see, we have a new website that launched today! Not only is it a new website, but we are launching a new brand developed for us by DownsDesign. We are hoping that this new brand will help our customers understand our goals and our process more clearly and see the value in [...]
Go Green! With Jewelry?
Monday, November 9, 2009
Obviously the “Go Green” movement is huge right now. It is so huge it has even leaked into the jewelry business (which is huge because this is one of the slowest moving industries). There are lots of jewelers out there that claim to be making and selling “Green” jewelry. The questions is whether it is [...]
Jewelry is only as good as the Jeweler
Monday, October 19, 2009
When I first decided to do my own designing it was very important to me to make my jewelry in the US to support the industry in this country but to do as much of it locally as I could. I already have a great wax and casting guy in Arizona and I am not [...]
First Day of the Rest of My Life
Thursday, October 15, 2009
So finally did it! I quit my 40 hour per week “corporate” job to put my full energy into my own company. I decided about 10 months ago that I what I really wanted to be doing was designing custom jewelry for my own clients. I thought I could start doing it on the side [...]