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This sparkling bracelet celebrates those that are depressive . Whether you create this bracelet for yourself in recognition of a loved one or as a gift for them, it is sure to become a sentimental favorite.

Step One: Attach the 14mm Swarovski faceted heart pendant in crystal and the purple enamel awareness ribbon charm to the center of the bracelet with the sterling silver open jump ring. For help with jump rings visit the Handy Tips section of the Learning Center. Set aside.

Step Two: Cut an 8-inch piece of ZambaPro 49 .019 jewelry wire. Crimp one end of the wire to an end of the silver-plated four petal flower toggle clasp using a 2x2mm sterling silver crimp tube. For help with crimp tubes visit the Handy Tips section of the Learning Center. Trim any excess wire.

Step Three: On the wire, string a 6mm Swarovski bicone in crystal ab and three 6mm Swarovski faceted rounds in purple velvet. Repeat this pattern twice. String one bicone and the awareness ribbon and heart dangle from step one. Then reverse the instructions to complete the pattern. Crimp the end of the wire to the other end of the toggle using a crimp tube. Trim any excess wire.

It’s hard to imagine a time when glass wasn’t a part of everyday life, but for centuries glass making techniques were a carefully guarded secret. Fathers passed the craft of glassmaking to their sons, but rarely to anyone else. Glass objects were reserved for royalty in some cultures. In other societies, ownership of glass was regulated by price — if you could afford the luxury of glass, it was yours.

Lampwork Beads

Lampwork beads are type of bead made from glass, and it’s no surprise, because glass is an artisan’s dream. It can be poured into molds. It can be cut and polished into faux gemstones. It can be stretched and pulled into any shape imaginable. It’s no wonder that creative people throughout the world choose to express their artistic talents with glass.

How Lampwork Beads are Made

To create glass beads, lampworkers melt narrow rods of glass with the flame of a torch. The molten glass is wound around a mandrel, a thin length of stainless steel. The space occupied by the mandrel becomes a hole through the bead when the bed is slipped away.

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Pearl beads are easy buy some. We can use them to make jewelry. Such as, bracelet, necklace and earrings.

Making your own jewelry is fun and is often the first small business a for a young person. It’s easy to learn, requires only a few simple tools and gives you the opportunity to use your own creativity. Start with something simple, like pearl earrings, to become familiar with the tools and components used for basic jewelry making.

Things You’ll Need:

Step 1

Select ear hooks and headpins from the craft or hobby store. They are available in gold, silver or hypoallergenic material suitable for sensitive ears. The headpins are available in different lengths and have a flat stop at the end, which keeps the pearl form falling off. Make sure the hole in the pearl is smaller than the stop at the end of the headpin.

Freshwater and saltwater pearls may sometimes look quite similar, but they come from different sources.

Natural freshwater pearls form in various species of freshwater mussels, family Unionidae, which live in lakes, rivers, ponds and other bodies of fresh water. These freshwater pearl mussels occur not only in hotter climates, but also in colder more temperate areas such as Scotland: see the freshwater pearl mussel. However, most freshwater cultured pearls sold today come from China.

Current and historic industry

Although the Japanese freshwater pearl industry has nearly ceased to exist, it holds special historic value as the first country to cultivate whole freshwater pearls in Lake Biwa, using the Biwa pearly mussel (Hyriopsis schlegeli). The industry attempted a comeback with a mussel hybrid (Hyriopsis schlegeli/Hyriopsis cumingi) in Lake Kasumigaura in the last decade, but this venture also met with failure, with production ceasing in 2006. The pearl farm in Tennessee also holds special historic value as it is the only freshwater pearl outside of Asia, founded by the late John Latendresse, it continues as a tourist attraction. Today China is the only commercial producer of freshwater pearls, producing 1500 tons (2005)using the triangle shell mussel (Hyriopsis cumingii) and several hybrids that have shown heterosis from several mussel species.

How to Take Care of Freshwater Pearls

Freshwater pearls, whether they’re natural or cultured, possess a soft surface which can easily be scratched or damaged. As such, it’s imperative that you keep your pearl jewelry separate from other jewelries. It’s also better to place them inside a pouch rather than a jewelry box because the latter’s surface can also cause nicks to appear in pearl jewelry.

The acidity level of a woman’s skin may affect the wearing life of pearl jewelry. If a pearl necklace is constantly being worn by a woman with a particularly high level of acidity in her skin, the acidity will gradually seep into the pearl, affecting its luster and shape. To prevent this from happening too soon, you should always polish your pearls with a non-abrasive cloth after taking them off.

Be careful about exposing pearl jewelry to chemicals. Spraying perfume while you’re wearing your pearl necklace can cause considerable damage to them over time. You must also avoid spilling any liquid on them, especially when it has rather strong properties such as lemon and vinegar.

Heat can also cause damage to pearl jewelry. If you persist in wearing your pearl jewelry in hot and humid weather, the climate can change the color of your pearls or worse, cause cracks to appear on the surface. Dry unmoving air is also bad for your pearls.

Make sure that you are using only jewelry cleaners specifically intended for pearl cleaning and nothing else. You can not steam-clean pearls as well. If you wish to preserve the luster of your pearls, you can use a drop of olive oil on them.

Pearl jewelry is amazing to possess not only because of its natural beauty but also because of the amount of hard work put into them. Hard work by humans and nature combined.

In jewellery design as in fashion, colours look crisper against a background of black, and black and white always looks right. In fine jewellery, the black backdrop is often supplied by onyx, a black chalcedony quartz with a fine texture. Some onyx also displays white bands or ribbons against a black background. If the layers are even, this type of onyx can be carved into cameos.

Onyx was very popular with the ancient Greeks and Romans. The name comes from the Greek word ‘onyx’, which means nail or claw. The story is that one day the frisky Cupid cut the divine fingernails of Venus with an arrowhead while she was sleeping. He left the clippings scattered on the sand and the fates turned them into stone so that no part of the heavenly body would ever perish. True, black isn’t normally the colour one associates with fingernails. (Did Venus wear Vamp, perhaps?) But in Greek times, almost all the colours of chalcedony from fingernail white to dark brown and black were called onyx. Later, the Romans narrowed the term to refer to black and dark brown colours only.

Onyx which is reddish brown and white is known as sardonyx. Sardonyx was highly valued in Rome, especially for seals, because it was said never to stick to the wax. The Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio was known for wearing it a good deal.

Black onyx shines especially well when used as a backdrop for colour play. Its fine texture also makes it ideal for carving, making it a favoured material for today’s lapidaries. In the pin by designer Susan Helmich above, a carved piece of onyx with threads of white provides a stunning backdrop for a flash of colour. Onyx was often used as the perfect foil for carved rock crystal or the ‘drop dead red’ of rubies in art deco designs. It is also popular in marcasite jewellery. So if you would like to add a little black magic to your jewellery design, why not consider onyx?

10mm Gorgeous Black Onyx Gemstone Round Loose Beads

Black Banded Onyx Agate Gems Oval Loose Beads 1 Strand

Making beads looked very simple. Actually, many of deatil you can’t miss it. Such as, can you make a loop beads? Today we are going to learn how to do it.

First you should prepare the materials: beads and heal pins. The tools: Round Nose Pliers, Chain Nose Pliers and Wire Cutters.

Step 1String a bead or beads onto a head pin.	Step 2Cut the head pin, leaving 3/8″.	Step 3Bend the wire at the top of the bead to a 90° angle with chain nose pliers or your fingers.
Step 4Grasp the end of the wire with round nose pliers so the wire is flush with the tool.	Step 5Rotate the pliers to form a loop.	Step 6Continue turning the wire until a complete loop is formed.
Step 7To open the loop, grasp the side of the loop closest to the opening with chain nose pliers and move this side of the loop toward you.	Step 8Attach the loop to your desired location. To close the loop, grasp the open side with chain nose pliers and move away from you until the loop is closed and the end of the wire is flush with the base of the loop.	Tip:To make a smaller loop, work closer to the tip of the round nose pliers.
Tip:If you want to make a larger loop, start with a piece of wire longer than 3/8″ and make the loop further back from the tip of the round nose pliers.

Rhodochrosite, malachite, chrysanthemum stone, rhodonite, and ruby in zoisite are just a few of the crystals that have beautiful abstract patterns. Another of these crystals, one which adds a broad spectrum of colors to its palette is the aptly named Picasso marble.

Its colors, brown, black, cream, and various shades of gray often form the patterns of abstract landscapes. A major clue to the meaning of this stone can be found from the process through which these patterns form.

Picasso jasper (also called Picasso marble or simply Picasso stone) is metamorphic limestone, Metamorphosis is one of the three ways stones are formed (the other kinds of stones are igneous and sedimentary). Geologically, a metamorphic stone forms deep in the earth, its essential nature altered by heat and pressure. It may go through metamorphosis more than once, and each time new elements are added to its composition. Only those aspects of the stone which are impermeable to pressure and heat are preserved.

picasso jasper is widly used to make jewelry. And it become the fashion jewelry. Such as picasso jasper stone beads, bracelets, pendants and necklaces.

Yellow Agate strengthens heart, gives courage, harmonizes heart, throat and solar plexus, detoxifies system, reduces temperature, sharpens, sight, illuminates, gives balance, eloquence, vitality and joy, mellows, brings prosperity, raises self esteem, balances extremism, aids in reoxygenation of body, regenerates, protects from x-rays, strength, protection, support, aids upset stomach, lungs, depression, lethargy, throat, skin, tumor. Earth, For grounding & balance. For strength, protection and support. Aids strength and courage. Compels truth, promotes good manners, happiness, intelligence, prosperity, longevity, fertility, and good health. Assists in making and keeping friends, helpful to farmers and those interested in growing plants. Aid in restoration of energy, used in healing, and believed to bring wearer happiness, wealth, health, and long life. Increases ability to ward off self-induced anger and inner bitterness.

Hindu mystics believe that agate can help children overcome their fears, learn to walk earlier and maintain their balance. Set in a gold necklace, agate will quicken a sluggish metabolism. Place variegated and banded agate crystals under your pillow at night to relieve insomnia and bring good dreams.

Do you know that the obsolete buttons can be use to make beautiful and creative jewrlry?  Just enough imagination, clever enough hands,  you can use the buttons to make beautiful necklaces, earrings, badges and other unique jewelry!

1.Hand-drawn button

pencil sketch of what you like on the white buttons, and then and colour dyes, draw pretty pictures that you like. Is it very simple? If you are not good for drawing , please don’t worry about it. Just prepare a piece of colourful cloth. The effect is also very good.

?Materials: white cotton hand-package, pencil, brush, small textile dyes.

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We have introduced opal, today we will learn more about it. 

Opal love to be worn on the skin

Due to the differing percentage of water, Opals may easily become brittle. They always contain water – usually between 2 and 6 per cent, but sometimes even more. Thus if stored too dry or exposed to heat over a longer period of time, Opals will show fissures and the play of colour will become paler. Therefore, Opal jewellery should be worn as often as possible, for then the gemstone will receive the needed humidity from the air and from the skin of its wearer.
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