Bridge Jewelry Award

Bridge jewelry refers to jewelry that is sort of in between. It's not considered fine jewelry, like a gold diamond ring would be, but it's not considered costume jewelry, like one of those fun and funky pins you buy during...

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For Metal Gals

A new web site and accompanying blog, contributed by you-know-who, has hit the Internet air waves. It's called Metal Chik, and while its primarily focused on those who make jewelry, really any jewelry lover will find loads of great information...

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Jewelry & Fashion Blogosphere 09/02/07

Welcome to a new month and a new round of blogging from various web snobs throughout the jewelry and fashion blogosphere. First up, GlamChic sizes up the most stylish mother-daughter duos in the fashion industry, including the Trumps, Wintours, Versaces...

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From Board Room to Bead Room

Texas-based jewelry designer Gaye Fields spent 30 years running on the corporate treadmill. Then after retirement, she discovered what had been missing from her life - jewelry designing: Before I began designing jewelry I worked for 30 years in corporate...

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World Jewelry Center Museum Experience

I didn't even know there was going to be any sort of museum or as the World Jewelry Center is calling it, "museum experience," in the new center, but it looks like there is going to be something like a...

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Lariat Necklaces

I like to wear lariat necklaces myself, so it's a bit odd that I don't make them that often or make that many. I got started on these simply because I happened to catch a glimpse of one of the new Swarovski crystal rings as I was looking for some other beads. The ring was in one of my favorite colours - Copper - so I couldn't resist seeing what I could do with it. I decided not to do that much. I used 14 karat goldfilled chain and wire and attached the Swarovski crystal ring to one end, and a large copper bicone to the other with a few little bead accents. I put a Swarovski butterfly in copper to one side of the ring - and I'm in love with this lariat necklace.
Another of my favorite Swarovski colours is blue Montana and since to me it seems to be much more the colour of a real sapphire than Swarovski's actual sapphire colour, I used the Montana crystals to make a lariat that would also work as a birthstone necklace for September. This necklace is outstanding because of the wonderful Karen Hill Tribes chain with little links holding together huge hammered rounds and large flower shaped sterling. This is a rather long lariat necklace; one thing I like about it is that you can wear the back of it facing front during the day when you're at the office, then when you're ready to go out, you just turn it around and you have tons of sparkle! The large Swarovski crystals fit through the hoop, but I also added an almost indiscernible little ring clasp for those who may wear it out dancing.
Finally, a green aventurine lariat necklace made of aventurine disks, faceted olives, and carved flower beads. Here the loop that the other side goes through is made of the faceted olives, and because of the size of the loop, the other side can be looped through more than once to shorten the remainder.
All of these lariat necklaces can be found on the Lariat Necklaces page of the Cluny Grey website.

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Ah, Agate Jewelry

I wrote about watches from Ecclilssi earlier this summer, so I went over again recently to take a look at their jewelry. While I was a tad disappointed not to see more jewelry on the web site, I did find...

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