New Locations!

Hey friends,

I’m super excited to announce that as of today I’m selling my work in 3 new locations! Woohoo! Y’all this has been a long time coming and I’m so happy I can share it with you. Didn’t want to share too soon and jinx anything. Here they are:

Danaca Design is a wonderful jewelry school/gallery. They teach classes and workshops, have other events, sell a ton of beautiful hand-crafted local jewelry, and even sell some jewelry tools. So happy they invited me to sell my work!

The Frye Art Museum store is so cool! They have all sorts of handmade goods, jewelry, household decor, and gifts. Plus the museum is free admission and has really great shows. Please go check it out! (Also, let me know if you do cause I’m so down for a field trip)

Fircrest Jewelers is an amazing jewelry shop near Tacoma specializing in handmade custom jewelry. Plus I used to work with one of the owners, Joe. Really awesome people and beautiful jewelry.

So yeah, please go check out my work at these places. And keep an eye on my locations page because there are more to come! If you own a shop, or have a recommendation for a shop you think my jewelry would fit in at, please please please let me know! I’m really looking to expand right now, especially outside of Seattle. Thank you so much! And thank you to all the shops who already support me and my jewelry!

Living the Dream

I just made this collection of 3 necklaces for a show at the Bellevue Arts Museum for a show called “Everyone has a story”

The Seattle Metals Guild Exhibition Committee is seeking entries for Everyone Has A Story, an SMG show featuring narrative works, talismans, and other jewelry/small objects by our members, in the BAM Shop at Bellevue Arts Museum. This show will run in the store at the same time as Ron Ho: A Jeweler’s Tale, a retrospective of Ron’s incredible career.

This is my story. It is a series of 84 hand-cut sterling silver letters forming 3 necklaces. It took 37 hours of my life. I can’t say I enjoyed every minute, but I’m proud of what I created, and feel like it reflect my intention and outlook on life.

“YEAH OKAY SURE WHATEVER FINE”

“WHAT AM I DOING WITH MY LIFE”

“I DONT WANNA STOP I CANT NO PLEASE DONT IDK NOPE”

My life has changed a lot in the last year. A year ago I had it all planned out. But now I’m not so sure. In some ways I’m doing exactly what I want to be doing. In some ways I’m not. “What am I doing with my life” is not a question. It’s a thought. These are all thoughts that race through my head on a daily bases. People who know me say I have my shit together for 26 years old, but I don’t know. I just do things that make sense to me and hope for the best. Living the dream.

Sterling Silver. Hand cut letters. Chains are 74, 56, and 40 cm long. Hand fabricated April 2019 in Seattle WA.

$1800 (for all 3)

New Pieces

Hey kids,

I have so much going on. Some exciting new prospects. Some exciting new projects. But I don’t want to jinx anything and tell y’all. So here are some new pieces I’ve made! (They’re all for sale in my shop, so click away)

Website Update

So I’m part of a wonderful jewelry networking community group in Seattle. We meet once a month and discuss different topics relevant to designing and selling a jewelry production line. It’s a great group of people and it’s really helped me over the last year. Last week we had a meeting about websites and SEO and Shane and Trenton of Clarity Online came and did a presentation. I feel like I knew some of the info, but they really clarified a lot about certain things you should have on your website and in your shop listings, and certain things you can do to stand out in searches. I would highly recommend checking out their services.

So after that I spent the next 7 hours making a plan of how to optimize my website SEO and clean things up. Then I spent the next 3 days doing everything they suggested. There’s so much to do! And the frustrating thing is that a website is always a work in progress. It will never be “done.” But I’m doing the best I can, and I’m sure that my efforts will pay off.

Here are some updates I’ve completed:

• Wrote up a “policies” page with all my policies for online sales, custom and repair work, wholesale orders, consignment orders, terms, and privacy. Who knew I needed so many policies? Please go check it out and let me know if you have any suggestions or advice to make it even better

• Registered with Google’s “My Business.” Yeah I’m not the hugest fan of the google monster, but I do feel like it will help me get noticed locally.

• Updated all of the listings in my shop to include certain keywords and more accurate information

• registered a business email address: nina@nina-raizel.com.

• updated my logo and header

Yeah, I’ve been busy. What do you think? How’s your website looking?