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Bonnie and Teresa were tiffany on sale jewelry a blast building their business and connecting with so many women -- but by 1996, they were exhausted. With the money they had earned, they took a vacation with their husbands to Acapulco to discuss the future of the tiffany jewelry. They realized that they were at a crossroads. "Bonnie and I were booked three to four nights a week, eight months out," says Teresa. "We were successful, but it was a drain on us. We said to each other, 'Either we quit' -- and really, that just wasn't an option -- 'or we get bigger.' So we sat our husbands tiffany Somerset in a couple of lounge tiffany cuff links sale and told them that we could sell our jewelry through a catalog and get other women to represent us. We just weren't sure how to do it."Bonnie's husband, Jerry, loved the idea and wanted to help: He tiffany cuff links sale an MBA in direct marketing and was working at the time as a manager for a sporting-goods company. He had realized that his wife and her friend were onto something big a few months back when he came home in the midst of one of the Cool Jewels parties to find women hooting and laughing and trying on jewelry in his living room. He headed to his bedroom to escape the noise -- and found women trying on jewelry in there, too. When he complained to Bonnie, her answer was quick: "Get over it, Jerry. We've sold $20,000 worth of jewelry tonight."After the Acapulco trip, Jerry worked on figuring out a compensation package for representatives -- which would include payment in both commission and jewelry -- and designing a catalog. Meanwhile, using the connections they'd made on their trips to jewelry shows, Bonnie and Teresa tiffany earrings sale working on their own silver jewelry concepts. Their first catalog showed pieces they'd commissioned from other designers, as well as necklaces, earrings, and bracelets that were tiffany accessories Teresa- tiffany earrings sale-Bonnie creations. The catalog was photographed in Bonnie and Jerry's basement, and in July 1997, Silpada was born. The company's name, a word created by Bonnie and Teresa, means nothing in particular, but as the duo like to say, "It has come to mean to us 'The Best of Everything.


