Yoyo’s Creative Jewelry Designs

My name is Yolanda Petillo and I am a local Handmade Jewelry Designer originally from Houston, TX, my family is from Marksville Louisiana. I am a 37 years of age and I have a beautiful 4 year old daughter name Faith. This is my moonlight position as the Owner of my Small Business since 2009 to now. I have been designing jewelry for a total of five years now and I taught myself. Briefly a short visual picture of how I first got started with my small business created and founded by myself named “Yoyo’s Creative Jewelry Designs”. I went to Hobby Lobby one day with a friend and we passed by the jewelry aisle. My friend stated look at all those beautiful stones! Quickly it caught my attention and I said to myself let me see what I can create and learn about the different components used to make jewelry. Staying focused on my plans and goals. I purchased my First jewelry book and understood the different things and tools I needed to get my business started. I shopped around for unique pieces, blending many types of color combinations together. Jewelry pieces were created each individually unique in style and form. I have used different methods of marketing my jewelry by wearing my pieces and also family members and friends doing the same.  I have made sales by this method alone. I have also worn pieces myself that I created and had to sale wearing it because a potential customer wanted to purchase based on the uniqueness and style. Still amazes me to this day how something that I create may be weird someone will always end up loving the design and the item will be sold. This is such a wonderful feeling to know that people really adore my designs. Smiling…

Plan of Actions:

I started off on stretchable material and later upgraded and taught myself how to use beading wire, designing elegant precious stone handmade jewelry. The materials that I primarily used were agate, sworvaski crystals, coral stones, lava rock, hematite and much more. My designs looked like pieces bought out of a department store. I now design custom jewelry from Women, Men, and Children custom necklaces, bracelets, sterling silver wire wrapped rings, rosaries, and recreating old jewelry into new modern pieces. I am also working on my Bridal and Bridesmaids Line of custom jewelry as well. Stay tuned.

Motivation:

My motivation came from first my Family members, Church Members, close friends and Coworkers. I purchased a Kaboodle brought it to church with me one Sunday filled with my first creations. The ladies went crazy almost arguing over my custom designed pieces, this alone with supporting family and friends really gave me the confirmation that I needed to continue selling and designing my jewelry and making a profit which really put a smile on my face. I investigated a little more and found a Handmade Jewelry Website called Etsy.I opened my first store online and posted all my new creations on there. My first sell was an American man that was living in China at the time; he purchased the first piece that I created which was a black hematite rosary with a stainless steel cross. I received an alert from Etsy saying congratulations you sold your first item. I was so overjoyed and surprised that it was sold to someone in China. Long story short the item was received and my Customer left a sweet message stating that he loved it and that I was an excellent seller all four stars. My vision expanded and I wanted to learn more about the meaning of stones and developing more custom designs.

Conclusion:

I began having my own personal parties with family members, coworkers, and friends. I was slowly trying to establish a strong foundation for my small business. I have also sold many of my creations at a popular outdoor Flea Market called Traders Village, I set up there on 3 occasions to display my beautiful work. I had so much positive feedback from the public that I was overwhelmed. I researched how to apply for a DBA and I obtained that and also applied for a tax number and received my certificate in the mail.

I am very compassionate about my work and love making my customers happy. I love to see my Customers wear my pieces with pride and joy. My imagination is full of ideas and to top it off I don’t even think about it my ideas come naturally. I am sincerely grateful for this talent that God has placed in my life and I want to share it with the world.

Dedication:

Thanks for allowing me to share my experience with you and hopefully this information draw you closer to create a business relationship with me in the future. Everyone that has supported me throughout my year’s .I am truly grateful and thankful for all your support.

Motto:

“ Beauty Beyond Your Imagination”

Goal:

My goal is to own my personal boutique in the near future and pass along my talent to my one and only daughter Faith. Yoyo’s Creative Jewelry Designs has so much more to come just wait and see.