"Stay at home and you can make several tens of thousands of dollars a month!" This is the typical mantra of one of those cheesy stay at home commercials we see in television ads and Internet slogans. The problem is that the fine print states "not your typical results" much like a dieting commercials.

The plain and simple fact is you probably aren't going to make millions of dollars by buying some $50 program, and you probably aren't going to lose a hundred pounds by joining some weight lose program either. But, you can make money at home by starting your own jewelry designer business.

Whether you are interested in stringing beads on bead wire, manipulating wire into amazing designs, or casting pure metals into any imaginable shape, you can start an at home business for a small investment of time and money.

Most people who start out making jewelry enter it through craft stores, ideas from magazines, or something they saw online. You may be looking for something as a stay at home business idea, or you may just like jewelry, but either way you have landed on the idea of starting your own jewelry business.

Starting your own jewelry business at home will take three ingredients; time, patience, and motivation. You will also need a bit of money to start, though it won't take half the initial investment as most as home businesses.

When you decide to make jewelry your at home business, you will need to start with at least a few months of research time and practice time. You will need hours available to you for researching jewelry making techniques. You will also need twice that many hours to practice the techniques before you can start to sell your jewelry to others.

You will need some essential tools like: pliers, wire cutters, wire, beads, clasps, and earring wires. This at most can cost up to a hundred dollars to start, but could be started with as little as fifty dollars.

You will next need to find a venue to sell your products. Websites like Esty.com, Ebay.com, and Ecrater.com can give you your own store front to sell your products from.

Since promotion is not included in with seller sites, or with your own personally built website; you will need to do all the promotional leg work yourself. Joining social networking sites, creating your own blog and signing up for blog search engine registration, and learning about SEO keyword using on your store listings will help you gain popularity with an online crowd.

You can also pursue other avenues of sales like; at home jewelry parties, school and church craft fairs, city, state, or region craft/bead/jewelry fairs (these usually have table fees,) or selling to friends or family -- furthering word of mouth sales.

Making jewelry at home won't make you get rich quick. But, if you are looking for something to do at home and you are a creative person, making jewelry might be the perfect at home business to start. Your motivation to make money will drive you, your creativity will inspire you, and your patience will stabilize you. You can make your passion for creating a profitable venture.