Lorene Publications

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Building a Business, Building a Life - A Memoir & Workbook
Personal anecdotes, from sad to pleasant to frightening, cover forty years of retail in
Building a Business, Building a Life, a memoir and business workbook, by Karen
Lorene. For the potential entrepreneur, this book offers practical steps for creating
a retail art gallery (in this particular case, a jewelry art gallery). Useable, easily
applicable suggestions accompany each chapter. From finding a space to finding
success, the author encourages the reader to take chances in the challenging world
of retail. The final pages of the book offer worksheets for day to day planning.
$18.50 soft cover

ABeCeDarian
An ABC book and contemporary jewelry art exhibition featuring the work of 26 artists, each
producing a piece that corresponds with a letter of the alphabet.
$12 soft cover
$18 hard cover

Celebrating 70
This publication commemorates "Celebrating 70", an exhibition featuring 70 pieces of
jewelry art, one each from 70 artists, each representing a year from 1940 - 2010.
$35 soft cover
$50 hard cover

Buying Antique Jewelry - Skipping the Mistakes
For firsthand advice on collecting and wearing antique jewelry, Buying Antique Jewelry is
the one book every beginning antique jewelry collector should own.
$19.95 soft cover

Signs of Life - Contemporary Jewelry Art and Literature

Signs of Life is a contemporary jewelry art show and companion jewelry art catalog/literary
journal. The jewelry art show features work by nine artists. The catalog/literary journal pairs
these jewelry artists with nine writers in a unique publication that celebrates both literature
and jewelry art.

Only 1000 copies are printed annually.

Signs of Life 2011
$12