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#1 Type (Pendant ? Book?)

#2 Material on a stone? Or?)

#3 Design (with bird on it?)

#4 Over all look

Art

Artpiece
Bead
Bracelet
Buckle
box
Carving
Earrings
Post Earrings
Dangle Earrings
single
….. ear pend set
Pendant
centerpiece with … full necklace
you string it
…
Hairpiece
large
small
Knife
folder
hunting
with custom …….sheath
Stickpin or Brooch
Stringtie
Ring

Book
Going Wild
Raw
Fur (Alaskan marten, fox, wolf , lynx, otter mostly)

If you seek only a raw material just put 'raw' and move to the material column- ignore the design column and fill in the price range column

Animal product …..(fresh)…..(when ….product dominates)
Animal, Claws
Animal claw lynx
animal claw wolf
bear claw(not legal in most places)
Animal ivory ………….walrus
          hippo teeth
         Elk ivories

Simulated .Claws (bear eagle)
Fossil
Ivory
      Walrus
       Mastodon
Teeth
   Bear- wolf shark        beaver
  dinasaur
Shell
Amber
Leather
Don’t work fur or leather
Wood
Don’t work wood much
Stone (when stone ………dominates)
opal
turquoise
… crystal
…. agate
Jasper
…. tiger eye
Charlite
moonstone
laboradorite
…. Ruby
gem
semiprecious
Cast (when the …..casting dominates)
… …copper, nickel, sterling
Brass, gold mixed
Metal sawed not cast
Silver, nickel, brass, bronze
Gold , mixed
mixed mixed media
Watercolors
your materials my work
cap your stone-claw

Animal
wolf
…. howling
…. pup
….
bear
moose
Dall sheep
.. seal
walrus
whale
… unicorn
prehistoric
…… mammoth
……. bison
claw (like cast--please choose a metal)
Bird
eagle
….. song
….. water
…... puffin
…… humming
……. raven
……. owl
……. swallow
……. hawk – falcon
Flower
Rose daisy wild mixed
miscellaneous

no design abstract
people
… face
…… face male
…… female
male
female
…... native
…… angel-fairy
scene (when scene ……….dominates)
……. cabin
……. river water
……. mountains
……. sun
……. winter
Cast where design is cast cap. Caps you can name the material and design -200custom patterns my specialty-eventually I'll list the best sellers. For now- I'm creating them faster then I can keep track of them.

masculine (massive bold heavy macho showy )
…. small
….. medium
….. large
feminine
(dainty, light, lacy, cute)
small
medium
large

For a child
doesn't matter

Miles at Miles of Alaska
box 363
Nenana Alaska
99760
1-907-832-5442 miles@mtaonline.net

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Use this list below after you have looked around my site to see my work and have an idea of what you like. The list below lets you know the variety of choices I offer and what to let me know you are interested in . If you need an order code to enter it in your computer to reorder let me know and your reciept will have order codes - an abreviation for what you wrote out. The 5 colums tell me what you want as close as we can get it.

AFwi/

LM/

$50

Example: necklace

this column means I want this item to be a:(see choices in chart below)

Animal fossil Walrus ivory

This column means

I want it on or made of :
(see column 2 in chart below)

Wolf

This column means I’d like the design to be:
(see choices in

column 3 below)

large masculine

This column means I’d like the over-all style to be :
(see descriptions in column 4 below)

Under $50 –

This column means I'd like it to be in this price range

A sample order code looks like this N/AFwi/W/LM/$50

Broken down it means this

Pretty much forget everything below. Find something similar to what you want on my web site - cut and paste the picture and email it to me. If you are not that computer savvy describe what you want. Keep in mind when you choose 'special order' over 'from my existing inventory' that it cost me 3 times more to make it 'your way' so expect it to cost more (usually twice as much) but it makes it special and unique. I just would go broke giving the same price as existing art, as much as I would like to do this. So just be aware you'll have to pay more for special orders so it is best sometimes to inquire what I already have!

Pretty much forget everything below --cut and past a picture of what you want from my web site and ask if I still have it. There might be a problem describing what you are looking at that I am not looking at. I've got 26 web pages with 1,000 changing pictures. I have in my life created over 20,000 one of a kind items. I'm getting older--running out of ram. So--like an old computer I skandish and defrag every night. What I did yesterday is gone. So I greet each new day with fresh memory. Or if you do not get that explanation-- I am the sort who focuses on today and tomorrow and not yesterday. When I finish a project it is done. My mind is on a new project. If you ask me about the turquoise with a bird on it I do not have a clue what you are talking about. I'm a visual person- and artist- Show me. The sort who hasn't got a clue what color my toothbrush is, what I ate for breakfast--or even how old I am. I shrug my shoulders. I'm the best in the world at what I do. Some think I am a genious. But genious, insanity, and being an idot are closely related. Point me in the right direction and give me data. Don't assume because I created it I know what you are talking about. (smile)

Wholesale smallish orders

Pretty much cut and paste from my web site and ask if I have it still or something similiar or can I make it. If it's less then 12 items no use bothering understanding the code. The code is more for shops so big their computer doesn't know what to do unless there is a code. So I say"Behold! There is a code!" And it might helpt when re-ordering from a long list --what sold what didn't and such. You can try the code if you like, .it might help to at least glance at the column headings to know what it is you need to tell me so we both sing from the same sheet of music.

Wholesale big orders

I don't use order codes on my web site items you see. Most are one of a kind. yet I organize my own trays of work with a code I have used for 20 years. Basically it is an abbreviation of the 5 things I (and you) need to know about a piece --so any item you see has a code - as close as can be got. So---find an item you like- review the chart below and desribe that item using the 5 factors. When you get your reciept I'll write it out in abreviated code if you request a order number.

#5 Price Range under this amount retail

$25
$50
$100
$250
gallery -over $250

Ordering something I already have in stock is the best deal. If I have to create it then it is a special order- will cost more and take longer to get. Ideally it would be nice if I posted what I have in stock--even an idea of what I have. But I can make something in less time then I can keep track of it, and I can make up to 100 new items a week. There is no practical way to post it. Plus I hate paperwork. There are 2 good ways to get the best price though--especially for larger wholesale orders. In the 5 categories on the chart --request only the bold headings. In otherwords be less specific. I have trays of my work with labels --maybe 20 categories. If I can pick anything from one of these 20 trays it takes me less time and saves you money. If I have to hunt around and spend half an hour trying to find each item --someone is going to pay for that time. You. Example "pendant--stone--bird-feminine - $50" I will pick for you a pendent that might be on turquoise- amethyst- jasper, and it might be a hummingbird, a robin, a chickadee, it will be smallish- sort of dainty- for a woman and it will be under $50. That can be as much as half the price of telling me you want "a pendant made of turquoise with a silver humming bird that is small with a gold chain and $45." The chance of my having that in stock are slim and chances of me finding it if I do in under 15 minutes is slim. The exception is my new line of cast items but am still working on telling you want those are-- but eventually I will have a product line and if you want 100 of them they will all look alike--well no but as close as I get --as I'll have 100 faries holding an opal made of silver (for example) all cast from the same mold.(that's a popular item) and I want to offer my capped lynx claws at a rock bottom priced to sell deal no one can beat. I have 2 designs now -having the master mold and wax injections done outside at by the hundred low prices. I still do the casting as I get the metal free from the barge line --old propellers and such--but that's another story. Second way to get the best price. Give me your order at least 4 months in advance. (I may or may not ask for anything down but there will be an obligation to take the order or pay a penalty fee. That might be a deposit you don't get back or however we work that out-just so I don't create a special order and get stuck with it). If you have a seasonal shop give me your order way before your season. In this way I can at my leisure work down your list and add the special items to my usual work and start setting it aside till the order is complete. If I'm not under pressure I'm happy . If I am happy I give you a discount I'm going to have stress in my life you pay for it. Plus time is money and if I have to tool up to create a item there is set up take down time costs. In General-- prices are discussed, and as you notice on my site not many prices are listed. But in general I have a product line comming along that cost a third what it cost you a few years ago. Why? Oh.. well folks in other countries besides the US do business different and I agree after 30 years experience. The price is somewhat set but factors involved are who you are, how much you might buy- the likely hood of you being a return customer, your location and expected mark up. Is that fair? Who knows? Excuse me--but no-- we are not all created equal. 20 years ago I noticed local shops in my village could only mark my pieces up by 10% or they wouldn't sell, at the same time shops in Denali park were marking the same items up 400%. Was that fair? So now I charge local shops half what I used to charge them and Denali park shops twice what I used to charge them- while pretty much making the same over-all profits. Just a redistribution of wealth. At the same time it is common for me to sell at cost or give away art to people who really love it and honesty can't afford it. While I make up for it with millionaire customers who know they are paying much more and are happy to do so, because they believe in what I'm doing and want to support it, or they wish to impress someone with how much it is worth. Beyond all that --animal products shift fast in value as well as fossils and such as they are a limited resource and there are new finds and finds that dry up and good years and bad years for harvest etc and I have to be able to adjust my prices to meet the changes. Lynx claws this year cost you half what they did last year. Fossil ivory has doubled in price in 2 months. Such is life My regular customers trust me as I trust them. The bottom line is I'll be fair with you. I want you to be happy and come back and make money at the same time I want to stay in business. Or if this is all nonsense- well I'm ecentric. This is how I do it. If you have never heard of such a thing--welcome to my world.

So hopefully this is understandable -basically there are 5 ways to help describe an item . In order --tell me something from each column. I have an abbreviated code for everything on this chart and that will be your order number if you need an order number. But if that is too complicated just tell me what I need to know. What do you want? (a necklace a pin a buckle?) What material would you prefer? Ivory? Do you have a design in mind? A bird of some kind or? And how do you want it to 'look' I do nt know if you are 12 years old or 80, a man or woman or if yo like loud art or quiet art. Ideally curt and paste a picture from my web that you like so I know the sort of things you want.

This piece would be ordered as A pendant, animal proeduct-lynx claw, with a flower design, for a woman in the $50 range

This would be described as a knife, animal product-horn handle, outdoor design, masculine in the $250 range.

These at the left would all be described as pendants, stones-crystal, bird theme, either masculine or feminine in the 'under $50' range.

The above examples explain what i need to know to fill your order best.