Still have a few last minute gifts to pick up?

If you live in NYC you’re in luck because the Charmed & Dangerous booth at the Union Square holiday market is open until christmas eve!

Even the weather is cooperating, its going to be an useasonably warm and sunny day, so please stop by and say hello!  We will be open today (Saturday) from 10am-8pm, Sunday from 11am-7pm and Christmas eve from 11am-4pm.

xoxo, Happy Holidays!!

Just wanted to let y’all know that we added a new category in the store for “extra long charm necklaces“.

So far we have five, pirates booty, buddha’s blessing, shell shocked (shown here), life sentence and Henry Wadsworth Longfeather…(are you done laughing yet? I TOLD you I need help with names!)

Anway, I just wanted to describe these necklaces a bit more… First of all, they are the perfect length. Truly, you have to see the full length shot to see what I mean. Second of all, look the work and detail in this picture! See all that wire wrapping to secure the mother of pearl at the top and aventurine bead at the bottom?

That kind of stuff takes time people… (and really nimble fingers!) So we have to charge a bit more for these extra long lovelies ($48 each) but trust me when I say its a bargain for the additional work and materials that go into making them. We hope you agree.

Last night we heard a report from Ramina (our lovely shop-keeper at the Union Square Holiday Market in NYC) that there was almost a riot at the booth.. Truth is we’ve had a bit of trouble keeping up with demand, particularly for our most popular styles.

Yesterday, four customers were fighting over the last remaining Dragonfly charm necklace and one got quite nasty when Ramina told her we couldn’t sell her the display sample and she had to be told to leave the booth … see, we told you we were dangerous!

To the left is said dragonfly charm necklace that is apparantly worth fighting for, which is very cool. In a scary-shoppers-gone-mad-during-the-holidays sort of way. 

This is not a great picture of this piece by the way. I mention that incase your looking at it and thinking to yourself that its not riot-worthy.(I promise to take better product shots soon.)  But even worse than the poor picture quality, I can’t for the life of me think of a good name for this necklace.. I mean there’s just isn’t a play on words that I know of that contains the word ”dragon.” If you have a clever suggestion, let us know!

Yes people, we are no longer virgins of the blogosphere, for we have been blogged. For the very first time! (and hopefully not the last!)

Kudos to Jen of “So you wannabe a Domestik Goddess” for being first among her peers, a true innovator, a trendspotter, a style pioneer!

Wow, a few glasses of prosecco and the adjectives just roll off the tongue…(Bartender, keep ‘em coming.)

I believe that Jen discovered us through the press release that I sent out via PRWeb.

THANK GOD, because her post is the only positive thing to come out of the press release as of yet.

So far to date I have been contacted by:
A) a competitor of PR web who wanted me to use their services.
B) a “PR” person for small companies (should I be offended that she could tell our release wasn’t written by a pro? )
C) a ”television show” on a cable network that shall remain nameless. Their “producer” spent 45 minutes of my time getting me all excited that they wanted to feauture us! He told me where to send the samples, asked me all sorts of questions about the company, gave me their mailing address, asked me if our servers could handle the load of all the traffic they were going to send us.. and at the very end of the conversation, he casually mentioned that there was ‘one other thing’.

The ‘one other thing’ was that, although 85% of their operating costs are covered by advertisers, they require a contribution from the company being covered of just $7500.
Um, excuse me? That would be our advertising budget for probably the entire next year. Scratch that, three years!

But anyway, the point of this rather long-winded post is that we are truly appreciative of people like Jen who take the time out of their lives to post cool finds so that others can benefit.

Thanks Jen, you’ll always be our first and we’ll remember you forever!

So, who/what is Charmed & Dangerous? Charmed and Dangerous is a vintage style charm jewelry line by independent Jewelry Designer Sally Daner. 

We just launched our online store as well as this here blog, so we’re definitely looking for your comments & suggestions about how we can make the site better.

We plan on adding bigger product images, more product views (hopefully some shots of the jewelry on actual people!) and many many more necklaces and earrings in the coming weeks. So check back often for more products.

We will also be using this blog to announce the winners of our monthly prize drawing! All you have to do to enter is sign up for our mailing list. This month we’re giving away these tiger’s head earrings:

I plan on blogging about our products, contests, press coverage, the people behind Charmed & Dangerous and also about the process of starting a new business. Hopefully it will become a suspensful tale of our meteoric rise to success, but in the likely event that its much more mundane, I hope you’ll still enjoy following our progress.

Stay tuned…