Finally, sunshine!

Brilliant sunny weather we are having at the moment. I've managed to put sunglasses in the shop just in time!

I know I should be catering to other peoples taste by purchasing lots of different styles but I can't resist aviator sunglasses! These glasses are classics and always remind me of a young Tom Cruise in Top Gun.

My husband loves the mirrored aviators and wants a pair of the new stock just purchased as I've just broken his whilst cleaning them! I have a sneaky suspicion they were cracked already and just waiting for me to pick them up to fall apart!

Hopefully the warm weather will last for a while as I should really get off this computer and get my garden sorted out before it rains again. The darling dogs have helped by flattening everything in the garden so at least I have space to put some more plants in!

Favorite item today - Beauty bath pearls and cd set - Good for relaxing after gardening!

Prices of jewellery!

I've been looking at the competition today, fashion / costume jewellery online shops that sell similar kinds of items to mine.

Most sellers sell their stock for what they think it's worth - as it's fashion / costume jewellery then prices are usually a few pounds. A few sellers seem to think their stock is so much better than everyone else's as they price a bracelet (for example) at over £10! when others are showing the same picture and selling for under £3.....and still making a profit!

The mark up on some items is ridiculous. I know that price fluctuation is normal but usually the prices differ by small amounts not by over £5.

I did find one bracelet that I would have bought for myself - at only £2.95 I though it was very good value and I loved the beads and things hanging from it, problem was when I put it into the basket the postage and packing costs appeared.......£4.90 for delivery!!! (Shop within the UK to delivery within the UK). Considering the bracelet was silvertone with plastic beads there was no way it could have been heavy enough to warrant nearly £5 for postage (maybe the packaging was 'special'?).

Anyway I emptied my basket and 'walked away' from the shop. One lost sale. I wonder how many people did the same thing due to the inflated postage costs and how many lost sales this seller had?

Favorite piece of jewellery - Crystal bunny necklace set.

Accounts!

I just had a self assessment notice for my tax, after enrolling on-line I had a look at my accounts and realised I haven't touched them for the last few weeks! Very bad thing to ignore as it took me 2 hours last night to catch up!

Accounts are easy to keep, detailing all the in goings and outgoings of the shop, but when it's left for a week or so then bedlam sets in with me scrabbling through a pile of invoices and receipts trying to get them in some sort of order!

Like most people I use bookkeeping software instead of a paper manual to make all the calculations a lot easier but still, keeping all the paperwork in order to back up the figures gets a lot harder when I don't make the time to keep up the order on a regular basis!

At least, for now, it's up to date!

Favorite item of jewellery for today - Black & silver disc necklace.