Our Customer Testimonials
"Your online video courses are a great help to beginners like myself. Without your videos I would have nothing but a twisted mess. Thank you for making these videos so easily available!!"
Donna
"My husband and I absolutely love the instructional videos. We have found them to be very informative and easy to follow. I find your information regarding shows to be right on target. Thanks for everything!!!"
Laura
"I have learned a lot and am amazed at how easy a concept this is!!!"
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"I am very pleased and somewhat amazed at that I have done so far. I have been selling at work, and have several orders to fill right now. I think it is time for business cards!"
Jan
"The pieces I have done have been well received and when I introduced them at some of my shows they have sold well. Thank you for all your tips and advice! "
Larua
"I entered a piece in the local art council's 15th annual art show and won lst place in the jewelry division. I was very excited about this because the art professor that critiqued the show had only good things to say about the piece. I did a collar with a pendant and he was very impressed."
Barbara
"I enjoy your DVDs and have mastered quite a number of the designs and recently got your ring series. I did up a couple of men's large cabonshon rings in 25mm lapis and took them to the college where I work just to show people and instantly sold both to staff that very day."
Del
"I am selling jewelry, wire wrapping gemstones, making rings/bracelets (using loops & dangles), etc... I also make & sell silk floral arrangments including small sea shells with really small flowers glued into the shell; pretty much sell all at craft shows. Flowers do not sell like my jewelry sells. As far as a success story, the most I sold was at a church (for Christmas) with only 20 vendors - sold just under $400.... mostly your ideas --thanks to you & the information you are happy to share with others so they can become successful...Wonderful!"
Joyce and Matt
"You are a great teacher and explain things very well. I've tried on my own to learn how to do things and I just caused myself trouble. Since I've been buying your DVD's and e-books, things have gotten sooooo much easier. I've gotten so many compliments on my jewelry. Even the wire teacher at the local bead store wants me to teach HER how to do the pendants. (I don't know, am I allowed to teach the things I learn from you?) I've also gotten the owner of the store hooked on you and your DVD's. She's ordering some and going to try it herself."
Wendee
"By practicing and wearing the items I've made for myself, I have sold $125.00 worth of items with little or no real effort. Mostly pendants and earrings. I have people in my office coming up to me asking me about the items I wear and then asking if I can make them one in a specific color or stone."
Rosalind
Los Angeles, CA
"Your wire-sculpture jewelry making courses, the DVDs are great. Your instructions, your teaching abilities are great, not to mention that I love your sense of humour too. You explain and show the details on how to make a project very well made and saleable. And with these DVD courses, I can replay them again and again to absorb all information and techniques you were teaching. I'm always checking those free videos online too for added knowledge. I've developed my skills because of you and your jewelry making courses. I am happy and really proud to be your student and to be called a 'Wire Sculptor'. Thank you."
Michaela
"Your web advice is fabulous! Wow!! I feel like I have brought new life to my projects, and my creations will be much more saleable as a result. By the way, your online advice is rated as the best in the industry. Thanks for opening my eyes at a time when I really needed a boost."
Cathy
"I applied information from your free videos to wrapping historical bottle fragments. I am still learning to adapt the techniques to odd shapes - no 2 pieces are the same. I live in the Yukon, Canada, where the Klondike Gold Rush took place in 1898. The glass is from that time period. My stuff sells quite well to locals and to American tourists. Last year I made $7,000.00 doing this as a hobby and selling at local craft fairs and some wholesaling to stores!!!"
Colleen
"I'm selling like crazy. In fact, since I used your DVD's and started selling the wire sculpting, my business is really taking off. IN fact I'm having problems keeping up with all the "orders". I use quotes because these are galleries that want to carry my work. This is only the 4th of the month and at the one gallery I'm in so far, I've already sold 2 pendants and one pair of earrings this month."
Wendee
"Actually I have been offered some monetary compensation for the jewelry that i made for myself to wear to events (bbq's, weddings, etc.) and it has finally occurred to me that i can do it! thanks for all the help!"
Sera Hall
PORT COLBORNE, ON
"Yes...your jewerly making tips have helped me quite a bit. It has inspired me to be more creative and more open. I thank you for your wise words and tips for doing something so gratifying for me!"
Michele Karam
Armada, MI
"I have been making and selling my jewelry since December of 2005. I just recently put my jewelry online with The Handcrafted Jewelry Mall. It's been great so far. Thanks for your willingness to help us."
Bennie Hollingsworth
Rockport, TX
"I am very happy with the instruction I received in the beginner package I purchased in May. I have already sold 12-14 pieces and have commissions to sell more. I spread myself a little thin and made necklaces and earrings also, but what I have mostly sold is the wire wrapped pendants. I wear some of my designs and have had people buy jewelry I am wearing several times. The other encouraging thing is that they are frequently offering me more than I am asking. I can see the imperfections that they can't see, and also, if I had the expense of setting up at a craft fair I would have to charge more. I know the wire is the best that I have done. I am beginning to feel more confident in what I am doing and am gradually charging more. Thanks for the good instruction, and best wishes!"
Anne Stiles
Bradenton, FL
"Your free email course and tips daily have helped a lot! I just started wire work in January of this year. I am currently selling my jewelry at craft fairs and am working on a website. My wrapping technique is different, but we all have our own style. My wrapped stones (agate, crystals, etc.) are selling from $37-$39!"
Gaines Bishop
Crazy Red Cat Jewelry
"Your course is great I learned much and with the dvd is the best system you could ever make. When I need to refresh my memory I just look on it again and again. It's like having a private instructor whenever I want and need."
Dalia Stupp
Tel-Aviv, Israel
"Yes, I have received some really good tips with your course. We tried the Free Jewelry tip you gave at one of our shows and it ended up being the best show we've done in the 2 yrs. we have been selling jewelry. We plan to do it all the time!"
Stacy Oliver
Katy, TX
"I have substantially benefited from the many jewelry making courses I purchased from your webstore. I am indeed selling jewelry!"
Bert Stamler
Charlotte, NC
"I am selling more and more. My friend hosted a jewelry party last weekend and I sold most of my inventory (about 10 sets - necklace, bracelet & earrings). I used to be a buyer of costume jewelry for a small department store chain, so I know how to display things, although I have been successful simply selling out of a pretty purple box, as well. I love your products!"
Mary Nesfield
Huntington Beach, CA
"To answer your question, I did very well! How well? Let's just say that my package has more than paid for itself and I am well on the way to breaking even on all of my "extra" start up supplies. If things continue at this pace I will have broken even by mid November with still a major portion of this years Christmas Season to see a modest profit. I am very pleased with my investment in your program."
Virginia Singer-Storey
Santa Ana, CA
"I absoultly love your work and your tutorials. Your web site is really awesome. I promised myself I would sell some of my jewelery before I bought any more supplies! It is addicting. I love it!"
Carol Bennett
Essex Junction, VT
"Yes, I have sold a few pieces and people love my jewelry and I have orders!"
Linda Moore
Redwood Meadows, Alberta
"We have just started our jewelry making business, I have already learnt al lot through your daily tips and your advice for home party's."
Anne Vergauwen
Grobbendonk, Antwerpen
"Your course has helped me very much. We do a couple of swap meets and also sell to folks in Retirement homes that can't get out to go shopping. I want to take more of your classes. Thank you again for helping folks to learn a new trade. "
Marie Parker
Homeland, CA
"Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I know it is profitable for you; BUT, I think you truly care about people and their ability to learn the trade. There should be more people like you in the world!"
Debra Boushell
Cresco, PA
" Actually I am selling pieces already, and my customers are loving it, I did a few cameos but they don't really sell - what seems to be selling in my market in Maryland is the natural stone cabochons in gold or silver, I have done a couple of dichroic glass in silver and also unusual pearls in gold & silver. I really love working with the wire - it seems to come naturally & I know I'm still new to it. I will attach a few of the pieces I have done so you can see another success story. Also I just ordered a whole bunch of your DVD's to give me some more ideas. I do find that one I know the basics, my brain seems to take of with so many ideas. Your instructional videos are excellent I will say."
Julie Wood
Annapolis, MD
Your corses are informative. I have been selling a fair amount of stuff, and have a web site up and running for that very purpose."
Denis and Scarlet Kitchen
Shutesbury, ma
"I ordered you wirewrapping tapes about 5 year ago. I've been doing wirewrapping for 3 years now. I have sold a few things . I can't believe how much people like my work. I owe it all to you and the video's you made. "
Ginger Edwards
Celina, Oh
"I have sold several pieces, but I already have jewelry business so this was too expand my lines and my techniques! It has been a great help - the scope of designs I can now make is really making my mind race with new designs. Your selling tips in your e-Books are a great help, too - many that would take me months of research and trial and error to learn myself. Many pieces that I already make, you put a new spin on with different instructions and a different way of approaching the design, like the pharaoh's cabochon ring and the pharaoh's faceted ring! I would definitely recommend your videos and e-Books to both the experience artist and the newbie - a lot that can be learned and refined! I can't wait to get a copy of your 300 designs catalog video for the fodder for the imagination! Kudos for not only coming up with a video series but also coming up with clear and concise instructions and explanations!"
Susan Elizabeth
Garland, TX
"your Videos certainly have helped me. I am churning out some neat little rings from the last video. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge in this wonderful art form. Have taken a few days to answer your e-mail; just did an "outside" Craft Show over this past week-end; and my sales were a $1,000.00 for the event, in two days. I was pleased! I'm really enjoying this Jewelery Sculpting Business!"
Irene Sharpe
Riverview, New Brunswick
"I think that you have a very good course,and i realised my dream from many years ago, I learned a lot from you,and I will continue to learn everything that you know.Thank you for a good business idea,and good presentation.Yes i sold 2 bracelets and people liked them.I learned very fast your models and prety soon i will need from more interesting models."
Tinka Simeonova
Laval, Quebec
"Your jewelry making courses have help me immensely!!! I have been selling my creations at the world renown Santa Barbara California Arts and Crafts Beach Show for 7 years now. It is a weekly show and I am thrilled that my husband has also retired 10 YEARS early by learning from your courses and 2 years ago joined the show also. Thank you for everything."
Pamela Newman
Lompoc, CA
"I have to say that after trying a number of different careers, and now finding myself at home as a caretaker for my husband and my mother, I had just about given up on finding something that I could do for income... Voila!! There you were!!! I have never had so much fun!!! And, even though I've only gotten through a couple of the lessons so far, I'm already selling jewelry!!! Your courses are WONDERFUL!!! They're easy to understand and your energy and down to earth attitude make it a joy to watch and learn!!! Now, I know that this is no easy task... to take something and teach it so that it's easy and fun!!! But you've done it and VERY professionally I might add!!! Nothing but HIGH PRAISE from this student!!! Considering your testimonial, I'm proud of you!!! And, proud to be one of your students!!! Thank You!!! Thank You!!! Thank You!!! "
Linnea Oswald
Portage, MI
"Yes! My husband has really picked up some useful tips. We have been making jewely for 4 years and go to school every year. This year timing was difficult, so we purchased some of your tapes. We are going to purchase more tapes real soon. I should have got the 300 Jewelry Designs on CD instead of video, I believe it would have been a lot clearer when put on hold. My husband is retired and this is my business, but he does more wire wrapping than I do. We do shows, but right now we have about 15 stores we wholesale to. Thank you for your interest.
Gary & Linda
warsaw, mo
"And I would like to add, Mr Reuter, that my business has really taken off. I've got a gift shop near our home that has purchased, in February, 30 pieces of my jewelry; they sold 5 pieces within the first week; they were so very excited that they've offered us to display more on top of their purchases (sort of a consignment arrangement, but they still purchase their part... strange, but it's working fine so far). New Brunswick, Canada is a very busy, touristic area from May to September, therefore I used some of your techniques and added my own to offer a very nice, simple yet elegant line of different jewelry made of stones and seashells and sea glass found on the shores of our beaches... amazing!!!!! feedback on that... these Gift shops along the cost are Freeking out on my jewelry line. I can hardly believe it myself. Needless to say, I'm just overwhelmed with the results. I just happened to take advantage of the free stones on our shorelines and married it to some of your wire techniques and BINGO I got a winning business. Thanks so much for sharing your trade. :-) All of this inside of 7 months. Can't wait to get more of your videos so that I can grow on my knowledge. "
Angelica Fecteau
New Brunswick, Canada
"Your videos have been very instrumental in my success. I have a full-time job besides making and selling jewelry. I have been complimented on my work a number of times. The comments I received this past weekend at a show my husband and I did, make it all worthwhile. Such as: " I like this wire work much better than any others at this show.", "Your work is absolutely beautiful", "Do you teach how to do this kind of work?", "I've seen wire twisted before, but to look so flowing is desirable to the eye". And yes, my work is selling. I also have a particular wireworker, selling his wares, that comes over to my booth from his booth and studies my work. Then he goes back to his booth and tries to duplicate it. But I've put some twists in that he can't seem to quite get. That kind of tickles me that he's trying to copy my work because he likes it and he knows it sells.
I'll say I've learned a lot from all your videos and have been successful at art shows. "
Nyla Diegel
Otisville, MI
"Well I have used some of the videos alot. They have helped me alot. To be able to go back over and over until I get it right helps me alot. I have sold some wire sculptured cameos and pendants. Mostly I have a lot of sales in the birthstone rings. Everyone loves them .
Mary Jane Madere
Springfield, LA
"You have done your videos in such a very personal way it make's you feel like your getting one on one treatment. You clearly explain every detail and it's very easy to follow your instructions. I think they are great. "
Linda Livermore
Quincy, IL
"I am still using your videos and also your e-mail books. These videos have been my mentor and guide in making jewelry from the day that I received them. Your instructions are clear, concise and eliminate any guesswork. I also like the examples and anecdotes of experiences that you have had in selling your pieces, marketing, shows, etc.
I have been using dichroic cabs for pendants and bracelets which I fuse myself and have had excellent success in using the wire-wrapping and wire-sculpting techniques that you have taught me. I would recommend your tapes to everyone who is interested in this industry. They are excellent and far superior to other media that I have read or seen.
Thank you for working with budding artists like myself and giving me the cofidence and techniques for making quality jewelry pieces that I have sold at shows, parties and one on one shows. "
Peter Schmidt
Warrenton, MO
"I Purchased your course not convinced I could do or sell it but I thought it beautiful and wanted to try. Iv'e been doing beadwork and making jewelry for about twenty years and wanted something different and more challening artistically. Wire wrapping I had seen did not impress me but wire sculpting did. The framed faceted pendants are my best high price seller sold mostly by word of mouth. I even sold two in one week. I made a demo for a friend who had two faceted stone she wanted made into a pendant. I took two the same size I had on hand and made a sample. She ordered one made from her two stones and another person purchased the sample on the same day.
I like getting basics from you and the samples you show at the end of the tape. Then I make my own designs. It sells well and I look forward to setting up my own site for wire sculpting, beadwork and other jewelry. A sculpted piece hanging on a string of simple beadwrok can be dynamite. Thanks for your excellent course. "
Rose Drummond
Cottonwood, AZ
"I am very happy with the materials I have received from you over the last two years. I consider everything to be of the highest quality,from the videos to the raw material for jewelry.
George"Bud" Campbell
Thornton, PA
"I am a visual person and learn best from seeing rather than reading. Your videos have helped me a great deal and hopefully I will be able to sell some of my designs on my website shortly.
You are so very talented. Someday, I hope to be almost as good as you."
Paula B. Plaisance
Metairie, LA
"Your videos have absolutely helped me grow my business! As you know, I was wirewrapping "professionally" for several years before I discovered your course. Since adding the wire sculpture look to my designs (in 1995 I think), I would say that my business has increased by 35-40%. My customers LOVE the swirls and curls of the sculpted designs!
The videos themselves are well made and easy to follow. And one of the things I like the most is the "down home" feel of the presentation. You talk to the camera like you're talking to a person sitting across the table from you. I felt like I knew you even before I met you in person!
Keep up the great work--I'm looking forward to even more videos in the future! "
Janne Etz
Cocoa, FL
"I loved going to your class . . . it totally gave me another direction to take my wire wrapping.
I was totally satisfied!! I've told lots of people how wonderful the class was and how great to was to learn from you. To me, it was money and time well spent!!
Thanks again, I'm thrilled that I was lucky enough to get into your class, and can't imagine anything else I have spent money on, that was worth it as much!!!
P.S. If I ever had extra time, and money I would do it again just for the interaction and knowledge received by being there."
Florence Love
Alpharetta, GA
"I enjoyed the bootcamp 'more than I can begin to tell you'. Not only the high level of fun and education but the wonderful hospitality - - you are a class act!!
I've noticed my finished work has improved in several ways in both looks and style. I'm most proud of my pendants and have done a few rings (need more practice on rings). I made a collar (that I've worn almost every day) and am planning on making more in different sizes to sell with my pendants. I'm not 'fighting' the wire as much as before and everything is looking more professional, plus I'm getting faster!
Appreciate your follow-up and hope everything is going well for you and Mary.
Don't forget to let me know when you get the "Jewelry Mall website" going I would be very interested."
Pam McFaddin
Richland Hills, TX
"I've very much enjoyed your wire sculpting videos. I was somewhat afraid when I started out that I would never be able to create beautiful designs in wire like I saw on your website. But your videos are excellent. I quickly picked up the basic techniques, and I'm now developing enough confidence in my skills to try experimenting with designs of my own. I still have days when the wire seems to want to 'fight back', but I feel like I'm learning something new every day, and I love it! I've sold a couple of small pieces, and I'm currently working on a website. I look forward to your newsletter every week and I really appreciate the weekly video special - always a great value. Thank you for the help and support you provide to us all."
Debra J. Kerner
Walkertown, NC
"If it wasn't for your web site I would never have got started. I ordered the special package with videos + supplies + books + lots of extras
Your Videos are great inspiration to me and I have watched them time and time again to give me ideas and start my creative juices flowing
Your Videos are very informative and we are really able to master this art so much easier once we have watched the way you take contral of the wire and produce such wonderful work. To read instructions is one thing but to actually watch the way you hold and move the wire makes it much more easier to learn, I found it best to keep pausing the tape and work along with you, it was like have you in the room with me."
C Mead & J Rowe
Colchester Essex UK
"I knew absolutely nothing about working with wire until I found Preston's website, and ordered his first video. His video was great, and I learned so much my head was spinning for a while! It was clear, very understandable, (even for a novice like myself), and he reviewed and went slowly enough to make it very easy. It was only about a month or so later that I took Preston's very first Bootcamp. I went in still pretty new to it all, and came out ready to sell some jewelry. He was wonderful at walking us through it step by step and explaining the reasoning behind it, too. I have since taken other classes, and learned more techniques, but the basics that I learned from Preston are the foundation that I work from every day. Thank you, Preston!"
Joan L. Durocher
Thibodaux, LA
"I enjoy your newsletter and have received some really good advice from it. Especially on marketing ideas, some "dos" and :don'ts", some "whys" and "how comes." Great "tips" that helped me a lot. I also liked the little extras. For example when you put in a pattern for something, I felt you were giving more than just "news" or "tips". Your style of writing also was very good. Your little bit of humor was just right, not too much, but enough to keep you interested and waiting to see what you were going to say next.. I also liked going through your museum. Keep up the good work, If your programs are anything like the newsletter, then I am sure they are easy to follow and full of all the instruction and everything you need to know. Thank you again for your help over the years."
Delores Waddington
Sundridge, Ontario, Canada
"As you know, I am not the sharpest tool in the shed, and I believe your videos to be the best I have ever had in my possession when it comes to teaching videos. Even though I took your class, I was able to see my problem with your video on rings. All the videos I have been able to afford have been great. Your personal classes are also fantastic. I only wish I could have attended the class on name writing; however, I will look forward to some day may be you will make a video on this matter.
Thanks so much for your help!!"
Diana Lawson
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