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January’s weather has turned from snow to rain; I can’t wait for more snow! I am working (and have been on the new Spring jewelry for this year, and there’s something about a heavy coating of snow on the ground that is inspirational when it comes to jewelry. Meanwhile, I’ve also been getting ready for Valentine’s Day and working on a special page of earrings! Above are two bracelets featuring the Red Magma colour from Swarovski; I love this colour, a muted orangey red with a deep tone. The first is a silver bangle bracelet with Karen Hill Tribes tube beads and red magma crystals in the cosmic shape.
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January’s Specials!
One of the favorite gifts for Valentine’s Day (in years past anyway) has got to be bracelets, necklaces, and earrings made of aquamarine. So here are some new aquamarine pieces that will be up on the site within the next day or two. Above, an aquamarine bracelet with sharply faceted nuggets of wonderful practically inclusion-free crystal quartz, and smaller nuggets of aquamarine
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Are You Ready for Valentine’s Day?
Did you know that the garnet was named after a fruit? The ancient Greeks thought that garnets looked like the seeds of the pomegranate – thus, garnet! In the Bible, garnet is mentioned fairly often, usually called carbuncle. The Victorians were especially fond of garnets and mixed them often with pearls, opals, coral, cameos, and one of my favorite combinations, turquoise
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Garnet: The January Birthstone
It is truly the Christmas season! Every year, it creeps up on me, it seems, earlier and earlier. NO, I don’t have my Christmas shopping done; the tree is not yet up (it should arrive by Fedex on Thursday, a nice fresh Fraser fir) and I am as busy as I can be! And it’s only the 7th of December – I can remember when that date would have meant ages and ages until Christmas, but not any more. I do really love the Christmas season
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The Sparkle of Christmas
Handmade Jewelry-Handmade Bracelets-Butterfly Jewelry Do you have that person on your list that is always hard to buy for, the one with everything already? You spend hours scouring the stores to find perfect unique gifts for them every year.
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Handmade Jewelry Handcrafted Earrings Unique Bracelets Makes Perfect Unique Gifts
According to Vogue and other important fashion magazines, gold is back in fashion. Of course, I don’t think that it was ever out! I love the gleam of gold, and while I will concede that there are certain gemstones that are best served by sterling silver or white gold, (think rose quartz) I generally prefer my own jewelry to be gold or a mixture of silver and gold. One of my favorite combinations is lapis, carnelian, and turquoise; all of these gemstones look great with silver (although lapis always looks better with gold), but put them all together and you’ve just got to have yellow gold to match the richness of the colours! Above , a unique bracelet with lapis, carnelian, and turquoise accented with 14 karat goldfilled elements (with the exception of the toggle which is vermeil), and below, the matching necklace and dangling earrings
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Gleam, Glimmer, Shimmer!
The Christmas rush is upon us already! This is going to be a short post, just to get out some of the newer things that will be on the website soon. Above a pretty blue aquamarine bracelet that features matte lampwork beads in soft blue and khaki and a second strand of sterling chain with 3 little charms. Below, a long aquamarine necklace that drops just at or below the bustline (depending on where yours is!) The next jewelry piece is a thin silver bangle bracelet that has faceted rondelles of tourmaline at intervals.
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Busy, Busy, Busy
Handmade Jewelry, Handcrafted Lockets Necklaces, Butterfly Jewelry Copper is beautiful color of metal that has been known to humans since the beginning of history. Many copper ornaments, coins and copper jewelry have been discovered during the excavations of the ancient cities. Being a soft metal and taking an easy shape made copper more versatile for making kitchen ware as well.
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Making Handmade Jewelry Handcrafted from Copper Still Popular
I love to read passages that start with “there are two kinds of people in the world…” because of course there never are. But I am still always interested in the way many would divide the world and feel that their choices often reveal a great deal about themselves. So…there are two types of people in the world: those who like great expanses of one colour, with maybe a touch or two of another, the monochromatics, and those who prefer colours many and mixed
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Colour: Monochromatic or Mixed! CONTEST
Valentine’s Day is always a whirl of last-minute gifts – people seeking presents for those they care for and want to remember on the holiday. In this business, I’ve been surprised, pleasantly, I must say, by how many men buy jewelry gifts or make arrangements for them well in advance of holidays whether Valentine’s, Christmas, or a birthday. Strangely enough, it is often women who seem to wait until the last minute and decide that they want an extra stocking stuffer or that they want to get their daughters or daughters-in-law something for Valentine’s Day
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Gemstones, Swarovski, and Valentine’s Day