Backstory: I made some jewellery based on MLP wings (two designs of adult G1, two designs of baby G1 and one G4 design) a few years ago, intending to sell them. Life happened... I mean HAPPENED... and everything I made got packed away until I had time to take more photos and write listings. Life didn't stop happening (probably a good thing, considering the alternative) and I completely forgot about my treasure trove of pony jewels.
Now: the man and I moved two months ago and while I was packing my long-neglected craft stuff I found the trove, and I a) couldn't believe that I'd forgotten making them, b) was like "wow, these are really nice!" and c) resolved to start selling as soon as we were settled in the new house.
We are now settled in the new house so... time to stop procrastinating!
OK, first some pictures, and then some blurb. Sorry for the terrible quality of some of these, since they were taken I've acquired a tabletop studio with professional lighting, the next pics will be splendid:
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loginA couple of group shots for size comparison:
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loginAnd an artsy shot of my boyfriend wearing a single baby wing:
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loginSo far I've made pendants, pins/brooches and dangly earrings, I plan on making minature versions to make stud earrings with. I'm also going to be offering phone charms, rings (eventually) and I'll be selling some with wire anchors for making customs with.
I can make these in a limited-ish number of transparent colours, a much wider range of opaque, pearlescent colours, glittery finishes, with 'inserts' (eg the butterfly and star wings above) or with more than one colour (eg the G1 wings above with pale blue tips on white). I can make them glossy or matte. I'll be taking custom orders.
I hope to have the shop up and running by 1st December, which brings me to the reason for this post; I can't think of a name for it!!!
Do I use 'SquarePeg' or not? Do I make it pony-specific? I'm planning on branching out into other retro/geek/cool stuff that cool people like us like areas, and also original designs so that probably wouldn't be a good idea. I love the word 'esoterica', meaning 'things understood by or meant for a select few', which I feel perfectly describes what the shop would offer (to anyone not very familiar with the design of MLP the jewellery would simply look like stylised wings).
My boyfriend likes 'Square Peg's Souk'. I like 'Emporium of Esoterica', but think it's too grand and doesn't really go with the jewellery.
Basically I'm stuck. Halp?
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