Bronze Keepsake Business Startup Kit

US$925.00 ex. Vat

UPDATED 25th APRIL 2023 – NEW AND IMPROVED SUPPLIES
Bronze Keepsake Business Startup Kit for launching your keepsake and memorial jewellery business, tools and supplies with moulds and settings. Please make sure you choose Special Delivery or a courier option for the shipping method due to the high value of the order! This business startup kit has an RRP of over £1700 (24th April 2023), saving you over £700!

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Description

Bronze Keepsake Business Startup Kit to help you on the right track to start your baby and breastmilk, memorial or keepsake and memento jewellery business. The bronze level package includes a selection of items available from Keepsaker Supplies with a recommended retail price of over £1740! It’s ideal for new starters, those taking the Advanced Breastmilk Jewellery Course and people attending our Studio Training Sessions!

  • Due to the customised nature this item takes up to one month to dispatch. All of the rings are made by hand and many of the settings and moulds, we also need to source some of the tools and equipment.
  • Please choose Special Delivery or a courier option due to the high value of this bundle

It’s enough to make at least fifty five pieces straight away – twenty beads, ten rings, and twenty five necklaces or dangle charms. Make as many variations as you can and take lots of photos, sell some to friends and family before ordering, to pay for the kit, then use the photos on social media to get more orders.

Enough consumables to send out 200 kits for your clients to post in their breastmilk, hair, fur, cremation ashes, umbilical cord etc. You will use the tools and moulds in the kit moving forward, buying settings as needed when your clients order.

Here’s a spreadsheet with the business startup packages in comparison (coming soon).

startup pricing comparison 2.1
startup pricing comparison 2.1

Step one, watch Nikki’s entire playlist on YouTube here (click)! Then purchase this Basic Supplies Bundle or choose our Bronze Startup Bundle to be able to make more pieces and sell faster.

All Round Kit Includes

Breastmilk Speciality Kit

Memorial Speciality Kit

These are the tools and settings we have used at Tree of Opals for the past 8 years from suppliers we trust and items made in-house. For advice on making keepsake and memorial jewellery see our blogs here. The bronze keepsake business startup kit is suitable for breastmilk and baby keepsake (breastmilk jewellery, first curl, placenta and umbilical, baby teeth and Christening flowers etc) but also as a memorial for your clients (cremation ashes jewellery, hair and fur, funeral flowers) and all other occasions and elements such as wedding dresses, wrapscraps, petals, earth, sand etc.

You’re welcome to make swaps, within reason. Please discuss prior to ordering!

Worldwide Sourcing Guides

We provide the basic personal protective equipment or PPE (vinyl gloves and dust masks) but highly recommend that you invest in some more heavy duty equipment such as safety goggles. You can find links to buy these items in our country specific Worldwide Sourcing Guides here – including the UKUSAAustralia and Canada (more countries coming soon). You can find all the items you need to send your clients a kit for their ashes/hair/cord/breastmilk, which is something we highly recommend. The sourcing guides also give examples of office equipment such as printers and label makers, and packaging items like polishing cloths, jewellery boxes, business cards.

Bronze Keepsake Business Startup Kit Extras

You will need to provide the following yourself, these are items many people already own:

    • PPE (see above)
    • sending kit components (see above) such as stamps
    • order packaging supplies such as jewellery boxes
    • a freezer for breastmilk
    • a hob, saucepan and bowl for a bain Marie to preserve breastmilk
    • a logo, social media accounts and website (Etsy do not allow breastmilk jewellery, they do allow hair and cremation ashes pieces but only for pets, not humans)
    • moulds for other items you wish to sell, such as findings you purchase elsewhere
    • tools

Stock Images

You can download the stock images after your order has been paid in full. They’re royalty-free and Creative Commons 00 so you’re free to edit and use for your own purposes but we ask you to let your clients know in the image description that they do not necessarily reflect your own work and are for guidance only. You can Photoshop in your own work if you know how. More coming soon – feel free to submit your own royalty-free CC00 images to benefit the community, so long as you are happy with no attribution required, which means that someone using the images doesn’t have to credit you for the photo.

925 Sterling EcoSilver

The silver in these settings is 925 solid sterling EcoSilver. Please see our blog on Types of Solid Silver which explains the care instructions for the silver and the metal content.

Pro tip – at Tree of Opals we like to make the client two charm beads or cabochons with their elements (ashes, hair etc) at the same time. Remove both from the moulds and send the client a photo to check they’re happy and offer them a choice. Let the clients know that you will return the second one free of charge as a spare, and set their favourite with a core. Over half of our clients ask for the second charm to be set, which you may charge £20 for doing. So it’s always worth buying an extra core just in case!

Costing Keepsake Jewellery

Over at Tree of Opals we sell charm beads with hair for around £70 (80EUR/85USD/120CAD/130AUD appx) and sets of them down to around £50, plus occasionally up to 30% off for large family orders, wholesale (funeral homes and crematoria, I used to do 30% off for 10 pieces or more for a breastfeeding group) or black Friday deals etc. The very cheapest I would sell a charm bead for would be £25 as a mystery piece/mystery order addon or for someone who wanted a second charm bead set when you’ve already made two. The profit margin on that is high enough to cover my overheads (websites, payment processing fees, my admin manager, moulds etc) and support my family.

Of course, you can sell charms for £15, and I have seen them that low, but only with silver plated cores. Clients will happily pay extra for a solid silver setting on any piece. We also sell glue-in charm inserts and a set is a little less expensive but they do not fit all the way through the core and will need to be glued in. This will take longer and occasionally they can fall out. These cores provide the most professional option and will set your business above others using glue-ins.

Use the free pricing calculator to work out the prices you need to charge. You may wish to employ an accountant or you can download our free UK tax downloads to go along with your Bronze Keepsake Business Startup Kit bundle.

Does not include terms and conditions. You may use the Tree of Opals Terms and Conditions as a guide but copying may result in legal action from SEQ Legal, the company we purchased the template from. To be on the safe side, you can download their free version but you must include their information as explained in the download. For other countries, please check local government guidelines for terms and conditions. In the UK you also need to have a privacy policy and a returns policy.

RRP Prices are a guide and correct at the point of publishing!

*Please note, if you do not supply ring requirements we will guess for you with popular band styles, bezel cups and sizes. If you are in the UK, we will supply UK ring sizes, USA will be US sizes. EU sizes on request!
**Please note, if you do not supply necklace chain lengths we will send you popular size chains

Additional information

startup kit speciality

all round (breastmilk and memorial), breastmilk speciality, memorial speciality

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