End of the Year Clearance Sale on Ebay

As we are getting ready for the New Year, we have decided to put over 60 of our eBay earrings on sale! We are offering a 10% discount on sterling silver dangle and post earrings. Check out our eBay store. New to our eBay store will be collectible jewelry and other gift items. Our goal is to put at least 1 - 5 auction items per week. This week, we will post a WWI pin. We are still researching it and hope to have it listed by Wednesday. Our eBay store may be closed later this week so that we can take a short break as the New Year gets started.

Down at the antique store, we are going to start pulling the sterling silver charms and replacing them with older pins, earrings and other collectible items. The charms will eventually be listed in our store or on eBay. Our store website is www.aldajewelryandgifts.com. Also on the website is information on the store location and hours. Our January and February show schedule is posted on the home page of the website. We have moved VA American Lake to March from February. We will continue to book shows for the spring and post them as soon as they are confirmed.

Laurel Burch Earrings and Pin

We have been busy with the holiday shows now and will be selling next week at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA and hopefully at a Cancer Society Benefit in University Place, WA. We'll focus the rest of the month on putting more items online and updating stock availability on our website www.aldajewelryandgifts.com.

We have been cleaning out our stock room and have come across several older pairs of Laurel Burch earrings as well as a Olivia cat pin in perfect shape. They will all be listed in our eBay store next week. Click here to access the store. We will be running these on 7-day auctions. We have added several new sterling silver earring designs to eBay this last week. They include an anchor design, several heart designs including one with peace signs and Christmas and winter holiday designs.

We have received notice from Harvey canes that they will be increasing their prices as of October. We will be ordering more of the right-handed palm grip canes for our VA Hospital shows but they will be sold at the new price. Existing pricing on canes that we currently have in stock will not be changed.

We will be closed from December 20-25, 2008 so please place your orders by the 19th to ensure that they will ship out before the holiday.

Ebay - Website - Holiday deadlines

We have been putting in the effort to get a number of fun miniature post and dangle sterling silver earrings on eBay. We currently have about 145 different items listed and on some of the designs, we have more than one in stock. We have decided to list the items on fixed price instead of doing the auction format. In most cases, the post earrings will start at $9.99 and the dangle earrings will start at $11.99. Also, we are continuing the free shipping on regular mail in the U.S. Click here to see our eBay listings.

We are hoping to add another 25 styles of earrings to eBay by the end of this week. Some will be miniatures and some will be Christmas designs.

Some charm and pendant styles have been removed from our regular website. We are doing this since stock was out or very limited on these items. We will be separating our show stock from our website stock completely so if an item is limited online, email us at aldagifts@msn.com with the item number in the subject line and we will check if we have more of that item in our show stock. Check out our website by clicking here.

We also want to let our customers online know that we will be closed from December 21-25, 2008. We will be selling at the Portland VA Hospital on December 22-24 but will close early on the 24th in order to get back home. The last date for mail orders to ship out will be December 20, 2008. Express (overnight) and Priority mail will be available.

Seattle VA Hospital Show

This week, we will be set up for 4 consecutive days at the VA Hospital in Seattle, WA. Normally, we don't do more than 3 days but due to the Monday holiday, we were asked to do the rest of the week. During this hectic week, mail orders will still be shipped out but it will be difficult to reach us by phone during the day. Best to leave a message with an evening or weekend time for us to call back.

Ebay free shipping sale on sterling silver earrings

We are back doing shows again and spent most of this week selling at the American Lake VA Hospital in Lakewood, WA. We did well with the jewelry especially our selection of men's sterling silver rings as well as our Harvey canes. We also brought out some of the Native American made pottery that we purchased in the Four-corners area of New Mexico. The pottery is Navajo made and comes with their certificates of authenticity. We will try to bring a few smaller pottery items to the college shows that we do later this week.



We have been busy adding more items to our eBay store as well as continuing to run a free shipping special for our post and dangle miniature earrings. We are currently relisting the pairs that did not sell during the first auctions but appeared popular in the searches. Other pairs that did not show much traffic have been moved to the Buy It Now category in the store inventory. We are offering a Best Offer on these for folks who want to get a small discount, especially if they are purchasing multiple pairs. (We have the settings set for a minimum price but if you are planning on purchasing at least 5 pairs, we can negotiate an even better deal.)



We are hoping to relist the dangle earrings this week as well as any duplicate pairs of some of the earrings that sold in the first auction. We are running this special to clear our stock. Some earrings are already sold out while we still have multiple pairs for some of the other designs.



We are also in the process of getting out some fun, miniature Christmas earrings including several Santa designs, a cute Christmas stocking, reindeer and more. We have a few pair of Halloween designs that we are making a priority to list this week. If they don't sell in a 7-day auction, we will move them to our booth in South Tacoma Antiques and Collectibles south of Tacoma, WA. More information on our shows and the antique store are found by going to our main website http://www.aldajewelryandgifts.com/.

Copper Baby or Infant Bracelets Now Online!

We have been busy this week working on over 80 pairs of sterling silver dangle earrings to put on eBay in the next few days. The last group of 83 pairs of post earrings have been bringing in bids and the auction will end today and tomorrow. We will be relisting the pairs that did not sell.

We have just finished putting 5 fun and unique baby bracelets on our website. They are solid copper and are made in the U.S. They include a moon/star design (see photo above), a unicorn, a moose, a bear and a kokopelli. We will check in again when the new dangle earrings go to auction.

Jean - ALDA Jewelry & Gifts

New items on eBay with FREE shipping

We've worked hard this week getting our websites, eBay store and booth in the antique store ready for the holidays. Most importantly, we have just listed over 80 pairs of post earrings in sterling silver on eBay. These are really cute designs, starting at $9.99/pair including a small gift box made from 100% recycled paper. We are testing out something that we've never done before - we are offering FREE Shipping on orders sent 1st Class mail in the U.S. We hope that this will make it easier for our customers to shop. We hope to have free shipping on our main website bu January 2009.

Getting ready for Fall

This is a welcome message to this blog as well as news of changes happening with ALDA Jewelry and Gifts as well as All Nations Jewelry and Keepsakes. Newest change is the addition of Harvey canes to our websites. We actually set up a separate site for the canes since their shipping is so different than the rest of our products. If you place orders for jewelry or a Dreambox TM, as well as a cane, we can combine the order and credit back the extra shipping. We need to know at the time of the order that you'd like them combined. If we notice it, we may contact you first. To view the new cane website, go to www.aldagifts.com.



We are heading down to the antique store for a short time today to add some new sterling silver charms and pendants to our case. The antique store is South Tacoma Antiques and Collectibles in Lakewood, WA (just south of Tacoma). We are in the process of discounting the art work as well as figurines in our booth to make room for some fantastic new Native American made stock that we purchased in New Mexico during our buying trip in June.



We will try to post on this blog about twice a week, letting you know what is happening with our many enterprises as well as addressing questions and posting information on our products.
Jean
www.aldajewelryandgifts.com