Revamping My Site

So Today I hung out at my mother in laws house and we revamped my website http://www.leahbeesearrings.com/ to show the newest earrings first. Plus I finally figured out a good way to show the sparkle of the earrings when I photograph them. It's weird how I took photography for years and never had a problem taking pictures of people but when it comes to taking pictures of my Earrings I have a brain fart. It's like I forget everything I learned about lighting and shooting photos. Because Earrings are nothing like photographing People. I mean People Pictures are so much more forgiving. This is a total learning experience for me I've never really made a website to sell stuff. If you have any advice for me on lighting in the photos. Or just anything you see that would deter people from shopping at my site.. OH YEAH does anyone know how to add a wish list to a website.. My mother in law suggested it and I thought what a great idea until I realized it's not as simple as it sounded.. HELP PLEASE :)

Artist Links and Germany

So in the last few days a few exciting things have happened on the site. first off I started a new page on my site http://www.leahbeesearrings.com/ for local artist links. I wanted to support other artist and then swap them links so like a I scratch your back you scratch mine kind of thing. so I'm looking for any artist that are interested. But I will check out the sites and have to actually like your stuff for me to add the link. So Just go to the contact us part of the website and shoot me a message and your link and I will check it out and get back to you if it something I like :o) the other cool thing that happened in the last few days is someone in Germany looked at my website. How cool is that. I mean I spend a good 8-10 hours a day trying to get my name out there. I mean i work harder at this then the job I just lost. so to see it actually paying off is nice. It's Funny now that I have my own website it's a lot harder then I think most people Assume. I mean I thought you made a site and your on google automatically.. Well What a surprise...But it's nice to see your hard work pay off by the visitors and the sells. My husband swears I may go blind from looking at the computer screen for so long each day but he is really supportive of me trying to make this work. Especially since there really isn't any luck with finding a real job right now. I also added about 10 more pair of earrings to the site. A few of them are at the top of the blog.

Leah Bees Earrings " Dot Com"

Hi I'm Leah , I'm a First Time Blogger and an Earring Designer. I figured I would try out this world of blogging if nothing else to have a place to talk about the process I'm going through to Get http://www.leahbeesearrings.com/ Up and going.


About 2 months ago I started a cheap little website with 5 pair of earrings on it. I mean 5 pair it's not like that's a way to make a living. So I convinced my Husband Andrew that it's worth the money to get a dot com. I mean all the other websites have them I want one too!!! Little did we know I would be loosing my job 2 weeks later... so now what can I say I'm totally invested in http://www.leahbeesearrings.com/ In between the looking for a job and filing unemployment and all that good stuff I'm online learning about what it takes to promote a web site get it up and running and actually be able to maybe make a few bucks off of it. So far I've made 1/4 of what it cost for the dot com subscription but I figure my mom will stop buying them sooner or later and then my husband will look at me cross eyed and tell me " I thought you said the dot com would pay for itself" And I truly thought you have a dot com and the world knows about it. Well I was Wrong..... So did I tell you I have a new website http://www.leahbeesearrings.com/ . :o)


I promise this whole site wont be shameless plugs but more like updates on the website and what it takes to start your own business and hopefully convince your husband you can be your own boss and don't really need a 9-5 I mean wouldn't that be nice get up in the morning and create all day long Oh what a life that would be but for now I guess I'm in search of a way to at least pay for the dot com