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bombalurina's Discussions
Silver Prices DOWN!
Started Mar. 5, 2008
Website advice
Replied Oct. 6, 2007
Who has a flickr?
Replied Oct. 6, 2007
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Calling all bloggers! Join this group if you have your own blog.
Marketing can take up a large amount of time for those crafters' who wish to sell their creations. Coming up with new and unique methods of marketing is often very difficult. This group is for those who want to share their experiences and techniques.
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Long live handmade! This group is for Etsy merchants as well as Etsy shoppers and admirers.
When you begin selling your wares, suddenly you are going to be mobbed with experts.
These experts will often include your mom, your gramma, her dog, and people who have never been behind a sales counter in their lives.
Your work according to them…
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- Location:
- Minneapolis MN
- About Me:
- Once there was a very strange century. At the start it spawned bakelite and celluloid. In the middle there were popsicle colored rocket ships. Then there was a movie that urged a young man to go into “plastics.” People wore lots of brown and orange and some unnameable green, and hung owls on their walls. Then there were rainbows and unicorns everywhere!
Bombalurina makes that century into a small, wearable art form for you to put on and strut around in - kitsch as both irony and loving homage, a study of the tributaries that feed our design here and now.
That’s the essential mission statement for Bombalurina, my line.
What else is there to know?
The name of my accessories line comes from TS. Eliot. If you are a musical theater geek, which I’m not especially, you may be more familiar via “Cats”
of names of this kind I can give you a quorum
such as Munkustrap, Craxo, or Coricopat
such as Bombalurina, or else, Jellylorum
names that never belong to more than one cat
Essentially, Bombalurina is feminine, singular, unique in all the world. Like you.
As for me, I grew up in New York City, went to a liberal arts school in rural Minnesota where I studied studio art in spite of intentions not to, and stayed, like a reverse Rhoda, in Minneapolis. I love it here immensely. It’s in the antique stores here that I came across the sheer volume of mid-century antiques at democratic pricing which really influenced the line, what I love to see, what I love to wear and surround myself with. The postmodern/pastiche/cultural plundering aesthetic of my art school days finds new vigor in the arena of wearables and new outlet in the configuration of brass stampings, old jewelry parts, metals both base and fine, beads, and plastics.
I love plastics. I believe they are the maligned jewels of the 20th century. The notion of their impermanence is being disproven every time I include 40+ year old plastics from occupied Japan which are in better shape than most of the metal costume jewelry I find from that era.
On the ownership of ideas: I don’t buy into it. I believe in remixes, sampling, quotation, and sensitivity to the art around you. My jewelry is not technically impossible. It looks as it does because I am who I am, not because I have mastered esoteric secret sauces that I have to guard. If you are moved to purchase my work, you have my gratitude. If you are moved to create work that riffs off of mine, I congratulate you. If you must make a copy of my work to the exact detail, I would hope you would eventually find the freedom of thought to move past that point, and I encourage you to do that.
- Gender:
- Gal
- I am a/an:
- Independent Artist/Designer, Blogger, Supporter, Shopper
- (Designers only) I create:
- Vintage-laced wearables, one of a kind oddities, bead embroidered and bead embellished jewelry love letters, brass and vintage glass glam and forays into humorous kitsch.
- (Designers only) I am willing to do:
- Custom orders, Consignment, Wholesaling
- (Designers only) I have been featured on:
- creature comforts
MTV Style blog
anything indie
marmeecraft
flying people
- Website:
- http://www.bombalurina.net
- Website #2:
- http://bombalurina.etsy.com
- Website #3:
- http://shop.bombalurina.net
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When you begin selling your wares, suddenly you are going to be mobbed with experts.
These experts will often include your mom, your gramma, her dog, and people who have never been behind a sales counter in their lives.
Your work according to them is possibly priceless. Possibly worthless. Please consider the basis for their "expertise" before you take too much of this well-intentioned advice to heart.
The next thing a lot of people will do is to run to the research stacks. You're going to se… Continue
These experts will often include your mom, your gramma, her dog, and people who have never been behind a sales counter in their lives.
Your work according to them is possibly priceless. Possibly worthless. Please consider the basis for their "expertise" before you take too much of this well-intentioned advice to heart.
The next thing a lot of people will do is to run to the research stacks. You're going to se… Continue
Posted on March 15, 2009 at 12:49pm —
New Years' Resolution - paint more
Gouache on expensive Italian 100 percent cotton rag. I'm going to have prints soon, of this and others.
Posted on December 30, 2008 at 8:00pm — 2 Comments
But She Wasn't All that Great of a Gilrfriend
That's the title of this necklace, in homage to the Hold Steady.
The sentiment can also be applied to wayward bloggers. Really wayward bloggers.
But guilt is a useless sentiment, so I'm not going to do too much with it.
You know you still have electoral smack tainting your brain when… Continue
Posted on November 19, 2008 at 1:32pm —
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well maybe only in my Etsy Shop!
For all of march, the pricing as marked on my sterling and gold filled pieces is actually DOWN from the norm.
It's only on my Etsy shop, it's only this month.
Defy the markets with me!
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I thought you might want to join us in this new group for plastic & resin jewelry makers! Let's show off! hehe
I loooooove your work and your name. Love. Love. Love. I am totally dying right now. Wow.
This is the momma of the indie craft marts of MN.
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