We paid special attention to the legal aspects of launching a jewelry brand. At this place of work, the future entrepreneur was temper by critical comments from fellow jewelers who were much more experienc. The girl decid that such production was not for her and quit.
I simply quit my job without a “financial cushion”
I am an artist by ucation, a teacher, and I thought that I would easily find a job teaching painting in a private studio. But no, it didn’t work out. Sonya Latukhina, founder of the project “Be Your Own Jeweler” Experiments with master classes.
The “Be Your Own Jeweler”
Project was creat in 2021 through the joint efforts of Sonya and Liza Shabanova, with whom they studi together at the Architectural Academy in Yekaterinburg. At that time, the girls were still making jewelry for sale. A trying to develop a brand without home owner database funds and experience.
The idea of master classes on creating jewelry came for artists
Which were organiz by the director of the Yekaterinburg Museum of Soviet Life Irina Svetonosova. This museum is a unique project for the Ural decide which skills will work best for you capital, which takes you back to the times of the Soviet Union by recreating the atmosphere of that time. At the market, the girls were selling their products, and Irina told them that visitors had a request for master classes on creating jewelry.
Sonya and Lisa “quickly figur
Out that the topic was interesting” and got down to business – the first master classes were held in the museum. At them, the girls taught how to work in the technique of figur metal sawing. Lisa and I prepar copper plates, roll them to the requir thickness. S level them and appli a relief pattern using chemical etching. A similar process is us in radio tg data engineering for etching boards. Sonya Latukhina, founder of the project.