Jewelrymuseum

Hello! I'm panu, the founder of jaipurjewelryin.etsy. Working out of our Janta store Bapu Nagar Jaipur, we offer a large selection of unique brass,silver, gold plated, rosegold plated jewelry. ⋆ BACKGROUND ⋆ In 2003 I was twenty-two, newly engaged, and commuting 30km a day to an office job that I didn't like. A co-worker who made beaded gemstone jewelry invited me to join her on a wholesale shopping trip one weekend, and I jumped at the chance. Walking in to a room lined with hundreds of strands of gemstones in every color and shape imaginable, it was hugely inspiring! I applied for a business license, and began creating under the name arihantgemsrajasthan by my elder brother. In a world pre-Etsy, there seemed to be no fitting place to sell handmade goods online. With *very* limited coding skills, I put together a sales blog with integrated Paypal checkout. I had listed over 100 items, and can remember staying up late to finish, absolutely convinced I was going to wake up in a few hours with my first sale. I never ended up with ANY sales from that site. In the first three months of 2005, I was T-boned by a pickup truck (and walked away!), laid off at work In the summer of 2011 I began making jewelry again, along with miniature curio dioramas, accessories and other mixed media pieces. This time I wasn't thinking about starting a business, I was creating as therapy, for my own happiness. I reinvested all profits, and soon ended up with a huge inventory of items. Our pizza slice friendship necklaces were featured in BUST Magazine (Aug 2013) and on Buzzfeed and a few other websites, and the shop quickly got busier than I could handle on my own. We were presented with a very interesting, and terrifyingly awesome opportunity. After everything we had been through, I wasn't about to sit back and play it safe. ⋆ PRESENT ⋆ My brother left his job in the summer of 2014 to join me full-time, helping pack orders, and handling all shipping related duties. My Mom move