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No Roses Gallery Artist's Submissions Thank you for considering No Roses Gallery as a venue for your work. If you are a jewelry designer, artisan, fine crafter or photographer (preferably, but not always) living in Southern California, we welcome your submission. Following our requested submission criteria below makes the process fair and balanced for all potential artists. Please provide ALL of the items below in digital format (preferred) via email or provide us a direct link (with no login required) for us to download all the documents below. We prefer you submit documents in PDF format to artists@norosesjewelry.com 1) Look book. (or portfolio for photographers) and/or a lline sheet of your current collection. Please make sure to submit a visually cohesive body of work* and that you include accurate and up-to-date wholesale pricing** for each item listed. 2) Biography. Professional profile including list of exhibitions, awards, stockists, etc. 3) Artist's Statement. A summary of the collection - method, point of view, inspiration, etc. 4) Contact. Phone, email, website*, FB, Twitter...the usual. --- * Handcrafted only - please... manufacturered or imported work will be declined. ** If you sell on Etsy, please make sure to provide a link. Submissions are reviewed within 4-6 weeks of receiving. We'll contact you by phone if we'd like to see your work in person and by email if we have additional questions. An insight to our selection process... Local. We live in, work in and fully support our neighborhood in Los Angeles. That means that whenever possible, we prefer to provide opportunity to LOCAL artists - meaning Southern California jewelry designers and fine crafters who produce their work by human hand right here in town will be given preference over our neighbors in distant locales, cities and states. More important, we will only review work designed and hand-fabricated in the U.S. or Canada. Picky. OK, so yes we're really, REALLY picky. Not snobby... just... well... picky. Actually, so are our clients - and they're our bosses. We work for them. No Roses carefully curates a gallery of artisan jewelry collections that we know will appeal to the clientele who visits us each week. The designers we exhibit are selected for their unique visual point of view and exceptional by-hand fabrication. To view a sample of some of our currently exhibiting collections, visit the "more artists" section of our website. Research. We really, really encourage you to visit the gallery before submitting. How will you know if we're the right place for your work if you don't check us out? Unfortunately, we can't accommodate unscheduled, walk-in presentations of work at this time - this digital submission process makes it fair for everyone, including us. Thanks so much for considering No Roses Gallery as a venue to show your work. We look forward to seeing your creativity! Best, No Roses Gallery Los Angeles

I run a few "d.b.a." business, and currently one S-Corp... I am NOT a lawyer not CPA, so here, take this big'ol grain of salt along with this... You are mostly likely running your business under a "cash" basis, so 'cost of goods sold' (COGS) would be based on actual spend, not "what it's worth". It gets pretty ugly, but I *think* (after multiple go-rounds with the CPA, including multiple mentions of "don't be such a f*ing engineer") it really comes down to this for a CASH business: (StartingInventory + MoneyThatWentIntoProductMaterials) - EndingInventory = CostOfGoodsSold A few points: When you start out, "StartingInventory" should be *zero*. If you are a running concern, then it's whatever you declared for "EndingInventory" last year. "MoneyThatWentIntoProductMaterials" means pretty much what it sounds like - every bit of material you bought that is "mostly" intended to go into product. Generally does not include things like "glue", which is generally an expense - also a write-off, but separate from COGS "EndingInventory" includes raw materials left over, AND finished goods - and finished goods generally have labor costs/expenses built into them, as well. This kinda is where your "materials lost to processing" comes in - the "scraps" are lost from inventory According to the CPA (who isn't always the most helpful), the IRS assumes you count *every damn thing* that can be counted in your inventory - for my wife's jewelry business, he assumes we count each-and-every teeny tiny little stone of hundreds in each of her hundreds of drawers.... the basic idea is that you don't necessarily track the COGS directly in each item you make/sell; rather, you count up the bulk of starting and ending inventory, plus what you bought, and voila, there's your COGS BTW, if you DO keep track of your actual materials/supplies cost for each of your products (hm. yes, some of us are obsessive engineers), then an alternate way to find you "ending inventory" is: (StartingInventory + MoneyThatWentIntoProductMaterials) - CostOfGoodsSold = EndingInventory ... but this only works if you obsessively have kept records of material used and wasted... Blah, Blah, Blah - COGS only comes from what you PAID, not what it "should be worth" (but PRICING should be based on "what is should be worth", so you can afford to sell another one...)

WOODWORKERS: +No Roses Gallery (norosesjewelry.com/artist-submissions-ezp-30.html) in Sherman Oaks (my wife and I are the owners) is looking an artist/crafter of Handcrafted Wood Jewelry Box/Cases to showcase in our artisan gallery, preferably from Los Angeles/California The vast majority of our artists are LA natives and Locals, although we do have a few others. We showcase a selection of artists, rotating in a new artist about once a month. It's a chance for your work to be seen and purchased in a gallery that features all hand-crafted artisan jewelry and accessories! We also feature a small selection of "non-jewelry" artists - fiber arts, letter-press cards & stationary, and my own CalDIY wood-and-copper Jewelry Holders/Displays (which we also use throughout the store). Please contact me here, or via our website (look for “artist submissions”). We look forward to hearing from you! Tracy Hall CalDIY No Roses Gallery Please leave this post in the General Forum -- Marc