Aunt Pegs Handmade Jewelry and Treasures: Show Us Wednesday!

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Show Us Wednesday!

I am always trying to find new ways to get my small business recognized in the big wide world, and I spend a lot of time brainstorming (hence the reason my business is still tiny). But today I found a new way that I know will help my business grow!!!
Teresa Olvera and Lisa McCartney from Society of Socialpreneurs have created a new linky party called Show Us Your Business Wednesday's and we am going to participate in this during the 2011 year. Thanks to these to awesome girls for giving us WHAMS an opportunity to let is show!
Each week we will have a topic to blog about, telling our readers about our companies and ourselves.

Here's our first entry, with this topic:

Introduce yourself, your family, and your business

My name is Amber (I am the designated author of the blogs), and my business partner's name is Megan. We are 2 friends who have known each other for more than 16 years. We met at a summer job and have been tight friends ever since.

WE MAKE JEWELRY!
(and every item we sell is under $20.00!)

We started our business in August of 2009. We create jewelry of all kinds; earrings, bracelets, necklaces, beaded watchbands, charms, chain necklaces plus more, and we always have a few other things like quick and simple gifts, wrapping items, and some truly eclectic and fun things.

Our business is named after my Aunt Peg-you can read her bio here.

We do a lot of home parties (like Tupperware and Pampered Chef), and would like to really expand our web presence. We have an Etsy Shop, which has really started to take off in the last few months, and we hope to expand our inventory there over the next 2 months.

Many of our items are 1 of a kind, and we do custom pieces all the time. We do recreate items depending on their demand, and we make some stuff in larger quantity if we are running a sale of feature on it.

We do a periodic sale campaign through email that our followers can sign up for (top right of the side bar).

THIS IS MEGAN! Gorgeous!

Megan is currently taking a sabbatical from our jewelry making business while she is in Medical School, and she also works a full time job. She commutes 45 minutes to her job where she is an administrator for a Personal Empowerment Company, and then spends her remaining time attending school, studying, studying, and studying. She is currently single, and claims she is likely to stay that way because she has no time for men-ha ha ha-just look at her! She fights them off in droves! She has a BA from the University of Utah.

And this is me (Amber)

I have been married for over 23years to my favorite guy-Reed, I have 2 grown children, Chase-22, and Chelsey-20, and they are required to work for Aunt Peg's as slave labor.

Chelsey, Reed, Chase

This past year we moved to a new home we built that includes an apartment for my parents, who have reached the stage in their lives that requires a little more support. Our blog titled Peg's Sister Sal is named for my mother.

Here are a few other photo's of us...