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Fall and Winter Events: 2024

So excited to share this list of markets for the season. It has been a weird summer! But I am finding ways to take more risks with my jewelry and enjoy the process of making… Pushing forward with joy and excitement for the future! I hope you’ll come to some of these events… Remember to shop small this Holiday Season! 🙏🙌💕👑

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Unforgettable 2024 Eagle Fun Days: Summer and Fall Event Updates

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THIS SUNDAY!

Hope to see some new happy faces!

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Next Event! Sagebrush Collaborative Pop Up!

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Spring Events Calendar CORVUS LUX JEWELRYMaySpring Feté – Lakeview Park- the Rose Garden , Nampa, ID Sat May 4 10am-7pm / Sun May 5 10am-5pm Beltane- Idaho Ren Faire- 5610 N Glenwood St, Garden City, ID Sat May 11 10AM-7PM / Sun May 10 am-6pm Sagebrush Collaborative Pop-Up 905 W Warren St, Boise, Id Sat May 25 11am-3pmJuneArt and Roses Festival – julia davis park 700 S. Capital Blvd, Boise, ID…

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The long and short of it April 2023 to April 2024

The past year has been a rollercoaster of emotional, financial, and physical tolls on my body and mind. I largely feel that not many people, not even people that I hold as dear in my mind and heart believe in me as a jeweler, artisan, business person, etc. Well, honestly, there’s little else in this world that I enjoy doing enough, and that is reasonably socially acceptable, (we can’t all be…

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Boise, ID!

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Spring! 2023🌼

Spring is coming 🌼🌼🌼 Here's where you can find me!

Listed below are some of the committed places my work and I will be available for spring and early summer 2023. I’m so excited to get rolling with this year. Lots of plans and ideas in the works… I hope to see some friendly faces at all these fairs and festivals. Not listed here are First Fridays at Hubmrkt in King William, and Second Saturdays at Soflo Market at Laredo/Cevallos. When those…

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This weekend, I'll be in Austin!! Sept 17&18

This weekend, I’ll be in Austin!! Sept 17&18

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Perpetual August...

Perpetual August…

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Midnight blue

(a collection of pulled images, not my photos)

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Still working...

Still working…

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Season of change

Hello!

Happy November 🙂

My Family and I are re-settling into business-as-usual after a very scary three months of total unemployment.  Phew!

That was rough, but we made it.  My Partner, Husband, Co-conspirator, and all around good guy, Gus, took a new job with an Engineering firm contracted with the Air-force.  Its all a bit hush-hush, as far as I know, but he seems to like it!  So, fingers…

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Wild West Wind

I always hate, I mean am really *really* irked by seeing vendors bail early from a show. It bodes poorly for the vibe.  It brings down moral.  It leaves an empty spot where your booth should be.

Today I was “that guy”.

We got there just in time. We were pretty much set up by the time we were supposed to to be.  Gus left to go get us some food (because the sausage rolls that the freeMason’s were…

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Whirlwind Change

It has been many (many!) days since I last wrote here, or even stopped in to look around…honestly I thought this page self destructed from lack of payment for a fancy domain name…and yet, here we are, nothing lost!  Yay!

A baby has made her way into our lives, and all my little metal baby projects have shuffled a bit to the back for the time being… but I still see them from the corner of my eye. …

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New necklaces and earrings

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Art Tank. Art Tank. Art Tank…

I was accepted to and am participating in business classes for creatives, offered by LiftFund, an organization that helps small businesses succeed. They are national, but headquartered, right here in San Antonio.   I feel so lucky to have this help, spurred on by intention, thinking of what I want and need, asking for it, from whoever, where-ever, and somehow what I ask for eventually magically is working its way to me (it works, try it!).  We are about 1 month into a two month program, and all of this info is starting to gel in my brain… Business plans, business model canvases, websites, SEO, making, marketing, selling, networking… A lot of this eluded me in the past, or, I ran away from it, because it seemed too overwhelming, too complicated.  When you’re constantly immersing yourself in it, like a foreign language, it becomes clear in an almost organic way; all the puzzle pieces fitting together, systematically.

All Art degree programs should offer real business courses as required courses!  A whole suite of classes to cover what you need to know to succeed.  But they don’t.  That is why LiftFund exists, I suppose.

So, I am dwelling on all this information;  planning, preparing, more than I have ever done before.  The actual making of jewelry and art has taken a sideline, whereas it has always been the most important thing to me in the past.  That was misguided.  People told me throughout school, but it never took hold for me before.  Now, with a house, a place to work, a mortgage and future plans that need funding, I find myself perfectly forced into doing the things that scare me the most.  Talking to people, making friends (gasp!), learning how to do taxes, learning sales strategies…all with the bigger picture in mind of continuing with my art jewelry, making objects of adornment, and finally being able to go to a SNAG conference and not put it all on a credit card!  These are pretty lofty goals.  I still have work-work goals, but the large, grandiose ideas are being shuffled to the back for a time.  I am looking at practical, necessary objects to make, and tasks to be carried out.  Yesterday  registered my business name, Jennifer Hermann: Handmade, legally with the City of San Antonio and the State of Texas.  Edging ever closer to ‘Legit’.

All the while, I feel a need to give back.  To do something outside of myself to help the world…  I’m not sure what or how I am going to do that but I know I can’t do as much as I would like until I have my own house in order.

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Setting a path to purpose. Art Tank. Art Tank. Art Tank... I was accepted to and am participating in business classes for creatives, offered by LiftFund, an organization that helps small businesses succeed.