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…by hand, plus overhead expenses and a margin for profit adds up to $229 , she says.

Lucky for Schafhauser, not all boutique shoppers are as cheap as I am. She says she's selling more $229 necklaces her highest price point than $60 pieces. She even created a second line called Louie & Harry to distinguish her higher-end designs.

Schafhauser's original label, launched out of her Woodbury home just three years ago, is Junk Jewels. The inspiration came when she inherited a stockpile of rusty washers and pipe bits from her late father-in-law, who was a plumber. She has done so well that she recently opened a studio in Hudson, Wis. Her jewelry is available at 35 stores in the Twin Cities and beyond.

It takes a distinct look to make it in the jewelry business today, with so many women trying to turn their beading hobby into a career. "It's a flooded market," says Anna Karena, who sells her own jewelry, but not enough of it to quit her day job as manager of the Bead Monkey. "Nowadays, you have to be extremely creative."

How do you put a price on creativity? It must not be easy, since prices are all over the board when it comes to costume jewelry from independent designers. Some of the disparity is the result of naivete on the…

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…a new single, "Jenny," and their sophomore disc, "Modern Minds and Pastimes," is due out June 26. Both feature Dickherber, now billed as Kyle Patrick.

Asked about the upcoming disc during a telephone call from his tour bus — driving in upstate New York — bassist Ethan Mentzer states the obvious. The group also includes guitarist Joe Guese, keyboardist Ben Romanshan and drummer Joey Zehr.

"I think that the drastic difference is gonna be the fact that Kyle is singing and Eric is not," Mentzer says. "They have very different voices. But ... stylistically, we still consider ourselves a rock-and-roll band or a power pop band playing pop songs. And our goals are still the same: We want people to enjoy these songs and understand the lyrics and have fun, too."

Dickherber's voice is so different, Mentzer says, that the band in recent shows has skipped songs from its first album.

"That's not so much deliberate as it is we have sort of been really, really short on rehearsal," says Mentzer, who expects to add the hits later.

"We literally finished our record and left for tour. ... We just haven't had time to figure out how we're going to approach the old stuff, because [Dickherber's] singing range is pretty different from Eric's. You know, if we're going to do old songs, we're going to have to sort of rework them."

Differences in approach to new music apparently are what caused the split with Dill. In a recent interview with Starry Constellation, an online magazine, Dill…
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