Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Turquoise in Colors

Turquoise is a stunning beauty of nature; the colors range from vibrant blues to deep greens and the matrix veining can be anything from brown to black to rust. Here are some designs in turquoise using several different accent stones.

Visit our
online store for available pieces and find your true style in turquoise!
Turquoise: Spiritual attunement, cleansing, healing, protection, valor, soothing, peace of mind, guidance through the unknown, romantic spontaneity.




Double strand turquoise nuggets w/silver tubes (to the right)

Turquoise Black Onyx (to the left)





Turquoise teardrops w/freshwater pearls crystals (to the left)
Kingman Turquoise ivoryite crystals and yellow opal pendant (to the right)

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Exciting Changes & Online Expansion

Exciting changes with an adventure into new markets here at Timeless Designs! With a great deal of success over the past years and the continued popularity of our designs more than ever (and we thank you!!); this expansion is to meet those ‘growing pains’ we have been experiencing and to give our customers an even greater opportunity in shopping with Timeless Designs. Our quality, passion, uniqueness, and creativity for which our designs are well known will never change, just get better with this new avenue.

We are so excited and very pleased to announce our next venture, or should we say online venture! After months of hard work and dedication, we are proud to announce the opening of our online exclusive shop at Ruby Lane!

Here categories are broken out on the home page; easily view 'View All Shops Items' to see everything in our shop, including pending sales and sold items. Want to know what's new with our shop, check out 'This Week’s Arrivals' for designs listed just that week or look into 'New Today' and see what we just listed that day and as always for reduced items see the 'Sales Items' section.


Bookmark and browse our shop often as we will be getting even more creative, funky, chic, and a little wild for our future designs. We have expanded not only the item descriptions but more photos of each design showing details, earrings and pendants close-up and a few photos of the pieces hung from busts.


Don't miss anything with Timeless Designs, subscribe to our shop and receive notifications when we add new items or make changes to existing listings and receive special announcements about sales and promotions within our shop; the best part, you get to chose when and how often to receive these announcements.


No worries!! Our blog and website will still remain and be used more for information about industry, education, trends, lapidary, shows we'll be attending, and showcasing of all our designs; including galleries of some of our most hot and unique sold designs, as well as debuting current pieces available for purchase in our exclusive online shop at Ruby Lane.

What are you waiting for………..check out our new shop and find some of natures most unique and individual beauties to purchase!

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Marketing Schools of Thought

Business’s today face major challenges and opportunities in marketing, such as globalization and advances in technology. These both play major parts in the marketing strategy of a business. Marketing is not only a social process of how to get your products and services to the consumer, but it is also the process of planning and executing the concepts, pricing, promotion, and distribution of ideas, goods and services to create exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational goals.

While there are many different schools of thought on marketing from old school such as print ads, direct mailings to old fashion trade shows and the new school of the internet, online selling venues, business websites, even blogging and social networking are now considered to be ‘the place to sell your products’ or at least keep in touch with your customer base. But one thing remains the same within the world of getting your product out there and marketing, the four major pieces of marketing: Product, Price, Place and Promotion and the following questions:

1) How can you spot and chose the right target markets?
2) How can you differentiate your products and services from the competition?
3) How far do you go to customize your products and services for each customer?
4) What are the major ways you can grow your business or company?
5) How can you build stronger brands in order to continue to grow your business or company?
6) How do you keep your customers loyal to you, just beyond the first few purchases?
7) How do you measure the payback from advertising, sales promotions, and public relations?

Just thinking about these questions gets the ball rolling about your businesses marketing strategy. It is one of the main reasons a company will ‘make or brake’ it in their industry. Most businesses, unless they are very large, don’t usually consider marketing. But it is one of the most important ‘hats’ a business person will wear.

Marketing your products or services just right will bring back customers and keep your business in front of the consumer. Keep in mind though; too much exposure could ruin your business or product, so try to keep an even marketing plan.

Learn about your competition, their target markets and pricing strategies and capitalize on feeding what works into your business.

Marketing is a challenging concept in any business…from print ads, to internet, to direct-mailings, internet selling or even social networking; no matter what avenue you chose, just keep in mind the 4 major pieces of marketing: Product, Price, Place, and Promotion.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Wild Wired Pendants

I really enjoy working with pendants and nature gives me some really great materials to work with. Here’s I’ve designed to purchase (and sold several already!) pendants that either are stand-alone pieces or incorporated into necklaces.




Pink or Green Agate slices wired in silver. I love these colors, the pink is a dyed clear agate slice with crystallization and the green is a sold all natural color of pale green. Both come with the funky earrings that have also been handcrafted.




Dipping in the regions off the African coast, Madagascar these orthoceras pendants are really popular and I’ve done the both as individual and as a focal in a necklace. My favorite is the ex-large pendant showing the entire chamber of the squid fossil, it’s in my personal collection.


Goniaties are really unusual and quite the challenge to work with because of their shapes. Either as a mix within a stylish necklace or as an independent to wear on any chain, collar or cord.
For these and other pendants, see our collections.

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Any Style Earrings

Usually when someone is looking for the complete set to wear, though these days the fashion doesn’t always have to match. Many people are looking for the mix and match pieces to go with multiple outfits and fit just about any style, event or season. Here are a few stand alone earrings that could be worn with just about any necklace or outfit and are always in season.


Southwest style in lampwork with crystals and copper (to the left)


Hoops in Arizona Turquoise chips with white magnesite (to the right)





Charmed dangles in multi-colored teal
marbled zircon (to the right)


Puffy pillow lampwork beads with
charmed white Swarovski crystals (to the left)




Purple jasper ovals with copper
wire work (to the left)



Pick your style, pick up earrings, pendants or necklaces among our collections for any season!


Saturday, June 19, 2010

Classy & Chic Artistic Jasper Designs

Artistic jasper is an incredibly beautiful stone; the array of colors is stunning with the creations of nature. The stones are mostly a shade of pink, but can have additional jasper coloring. These three designs are made from Japanese artistic jasper and include stones in ivoryite, black quartz, and faceted crystals in pink, copper, topaz, and black.






Jaspers: Protection, nurturing, joy, awareness; balancing of physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual energies.

























Uniquely handcrafted designs from nature; see our collections to purchase your next custom piece.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Ruby Red Quartz Elegance

All about the elegance of deep ruby red quartz rounds with open centers; for flare Gayle has added freshwater cultured pearls in both rounds and sticks; then hinted with textured silver beads and a very large toggle.

Pearl: Purity, faith, charity, innocence, integrity, focus, wisdom, spirituality, sincerity, fertility. Quartz: Love, peace, happiness, gentleness, healing emotional wounds.
Browse our collections for custom design uniquely handcrafted jewelry.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Turquoise in Colors

Turquoise is a stunning beauty of nature; the colors range from vibrant blues to deep greens and the matrix veining can be anything from brown to black to rust. Here are some designs in turquoise using several different accent stones.

Visit our
online store for available pieces and find your true style in turquoise!
Turquoise: Spiritual attunement, cleansing, healing, protection, valor, soothing, peace of mind, guidance through the unknown, romantic spontaneity.




Double strand turquoise nuggets w/silver tubes (to the right)

Turquoise Black Onyx (to the left)





Turquoise teardrops w/freshwater pearls crystals (to the left)
Kingman Turquoise ivoryite crystals and yellow opal pendant (to the right)

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Exciting Changes & Online Expansion

Exciting changes with an adventure into new markets here at Timeless Designs! With a great deal of success over the past years and the continued popularity of our designs more than ever (and we thank you!!); this expansion is to meet those ‘growing pains’ we have been experiencing and to give our customers an even greater opportunity in shopping with Timeless Designs. Our quality, passion, uniqueness, and creativity for which our designs are well known will never change, just get better with this new avenue.

We are so excited and very pleased to announce our next venture, or should we say online venture! After months of hard work and dedication, we are proud to announce the opening of our online exclusive shop at Ruby Lane!

Here categories are broken out on the home page; easily view 'View All Shops Items' to see everything in our shop, including pending sales and sold items. Want to know what's new with our shop, check out 'This Week’s Arrivals' for designs listed just that week or look into 'New Today' and see what we just listed that day and as always for reduced items see the 'Sales Items' section.


Bookmark and browse our shop often as we will be getting even more creative, funky, chic, and a little wild for our future designs. We have expanded not only the item descriptions but more photos of each design showing details, earrings and pendants close-up and a few photos of the pieces hung from busts.


Don't miss anything with Timeless Designs, subscribe to our shop and receive notifications when we add new items or make changes to existing listings and receive special announcements about sales and promotions within our shop; the best part, you get to chose when and how often to receive these announcements.


No worries!! Our blog and website will still remain and be used more for information about industry, education, trends, lapidary, shows we'll be attending, and showcasing of all our designs; including galleries of some of our most hot and unique sold designs, as well as debuting current pieces available for purchase in our exclusive online shop at Ruby Lane.

What are you waiting for………..check out our new shop and find some of natures most unique and individual beauties to purchase!

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Marketing Schools of Thought

Business’s today face major challenges and opportunities in marketing, such as globalization and advances in technology. These both play major parts in the marketing strategy of a business. Marketing is not only a social process of how to get your products and services to the consumer, but it is also the process of planning and executing the concepts, pricing, promotion, and distribution of ideas, goods and services to create exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational goals.

While there are many different schools of thought on marketing from old school such as print ads, direct mailings to old fashion trade shows and the new school of the internet, online selling venues, business websites, even blogging and social networking are now considered to be ‘the place to sell your products’ or at least keep in touch with your customer base. But one thing remains the same within the world of getting your product out there and marketing, the four major pieces of marketing: Product, Price, Place and Promotion and the following questions:

1) How can you spot and chose the right target markets?
2) How can you differentiate your products and services from the competition?
3) How far do you go to customize your products and services for each customer?
4) What are the major ways you can grow your business or company?
5) How can you build stronger brands in order to continue to grow your business or company?
6) How do you keep your customers loyal to you, just beyond the first few purchases?
7) How do you measure the payback from advertising, sales promotions, and public relations?

Just thinking about these questions gets the ball rolling about your businesses marketing strategy. It is one of the main reasons a company will ‘make or brake’ it in their industry. Most businesses, unless they are very large, don’t usually consider marketing. But it is one of the most important ‘hats’ a business person will wear.

Marketing your products or services just right will bring back customers and keep your business in front of the consumer. Keep in mind though; too much exposure could ruin your business or product, so try to keep an even marketing plan.

Learn about your competition, their target markets and pricing strategies and capitalize on feeding what works into your business.

Marketing is a challenging concept in any business…from print ads, to internet, to direct-mailings, internet selling or even social networking; no matter what avenue you chose, just keep in mind the 4 major pieces of marketing: Product, Price, Place, and Promotion.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Wild Wired Pendants

I really enjoy working with pendants and nature gives me some really great materials to work with. Here’s I’ve designed to purchase (and sold several already!) pendants that either are stand-alone pieces or incorporated into necklaces.




Pink or Green Agate slices wired in silver. I love these colors, the pink is a dyed clear agate slice with crystallization and the green is a sold all natural color of pale green. Both come with the funky earrings that have also been handcrafted.




Dipping in the regions off the African coast, Madagascar these orthoceras pendants are really popular and I’ve done the both as individual and as a focal in a necklace. My favorite is the ex-large pendant showing the entire chamber of the squid fossil, it’s in my personal collection.


Goniaties are really unusual and quite the challenge to work with because of their shapes. Either as a mix within a stylish necklace or as an independent to wear on any chain, collar or cord.
For these and other pendants, see our collections.

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Any Style Earrings

Usually when someone is looking for the complete set to wear, though these days the fashion doesn’t always have to match. Many people are looking for the mix and match pieces to go with multiple outfits and fit just about any style, event or season. Here are a few stand alone earrings that could be worn with just about any necklace or outfit and are always in season.


Southwest style in lampwork with crystals and copper (to the left)


Hoops in Arizona Turquoise chips with white magnesite (to the right)





Charmed dangles in multi-colored teal
marbled zircon (to the right)


Puffy pillow lampwork beads with
charmed white Swarovski crystals (to the left)




Purple jasper ovals with copper
wire work (to the left)



Pick your style, pick up earrings, pendants or necklaces among our collections for any season!


Saturday, June 19, 2010

Classy & Chic Artistic Jasper Designs

Artistic jasper is an incredibly beautiful stone; the array of colors is stunning with the creations of nature. The stones are mostly a shade of pink, but can have additional jasper coloring. These three designs are made from Japanese artistic jasper and include stones in ivoryite, black quartz, and faceted crystals in pink, copper, topaz, and black.






Jaspers: Protection, nurturing, joy, awareness; balancing of physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual energies.

























Uniquely handcrafted designs from nature; see our collections to purchase your next custom piece.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Ruby Red Quartz Elegance

All about the elegance of deep ruby red quartz rounds with open centers; for flare Gayle has added freshwater cultured pearls in both rounds and sticks; then hinted with textured silver beads and a very large toggle.

Pearl: Purity, faith, charity, innocence, integrity, focus, wisdom, spirituality, sincerity, fertility. Quartz: Love, peace, happiness, gentleness, healing emotional wounds.
Browse our collections for custom design uniquely handcrafted jewelry.