Go HERE to win a free bracelet that is just TOO COOL! The blog contest is open to everyone, everywhere which I personally believe ROCKS! And because everybody that visits me here to see what I think about what you should be wearing on your arm, I am sharing this information with you even though I would prefer not to have any competition for this giveaway!
To enter to win the contest you will need to visit THE LADY CHOOSES which is a new blog that I just found. And the prize is a fantastic beaded bracelet with a Rock and Roll charm.
The blogger confesses to being a fan of fashion from the 1940s to the 1960s...well...this lady has taste if the cool bracelet that she's giving away is any indication at all!
And if you want to win a free bracelet you should visit her blog asap! And while you're there you should take a look at her posts...there's lots of interesting stuff that you will probably want to follow.
The winner of the giveaway contest will be announced on June 5th so why don't you become a follower so you will know who won?
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
A Graduation Charm Bracelet
The ultimate graduation gift for a girl might be a graduation charm bracelet. Graduation is a very special occasion in any young man or woman's life celebrating the time to leave high school and make your way in the world either by getting a good job or pursuing higher education that will pay off big time with a successful career.
Commemorating this a magic moment is especially easy for a female graduate who will appreciate a gift of a silver charm bracelet with some personalized silver charms. Choosing a unique collection of silver charms will make the gift more special due to the time spent on personalizing it.
The selection of the charms that will decorate the bracelet can focus on either the girl's hobbies and life up to that point, or they can be chosen in celebration of her accomplishments and graduation.
And just so you know, silver charms and graduation charm bracelets are also appropriate for college graduates as well as high school or junior high grads, regardless of their actual age. The key is to choose charms with level appropriate school themes like school books, globes, pom poms, sports mascots or club emblems. Anything indicative of your graduates school activities personified in a silver charm are all great additions and sure to be much appreciated.
Charms for high school grads might be a diploma and then when she completes the requirements for a bachelor's degree, she can add to the charms that she got in honor of her graduation from high school and junior college.
For the younger girls graduating from high school, silver charms depicting a diploma are a great idea. These charms for bracelets can be either in a traditional scroll which is rolled and tied with a silver bow, or they can look like an actual diploma documents.
*Ladders
Ladders, intended to represent climbing the ladder of success, are a fun and non-traditional way to celebrate the time of graduation. Ladder shaped charms are a wonderful addition to a graduation charm bracelet since they are very attractive as well as unique when attached to the links and included as part of a graduation charm bracelet.
*Keys
Keys, are meant to represent that graduation holds the keys to success. A ring of keys or an individual key would be an interesting charm for your group of silver charms with a graduation theme. Key charms can also be a double representation of both graduation and perhaps the purchase or reward of a brand new car or a girl's first apartment.
*Caps
A mortor board or cap or cap and gown silver charms would be perfect for any type of graduation including high school as well as graduation from a college and university, even for girls who returned to school as an adult.
The best way to create a graduation charm bracelet is to include individual, personalized or engraved silver charms on a high quality bracelet. The charms selected in celebration of the graduation serve as long lasting remembrances and congratulations from family and friends. If you aren't sure of the right words to say, there are many charms that come with an inspirational quote or a message of good luck and future success already engraved.
Commemorating this a magic moment is especially easy for a female graduate who will appreciate a gift of a silver charm bracelet with some personalized silver charms. Choosing a unique collection of silver charms will make the gift more special due to the time spent on personalizing it.
The selection of the charms that will decorate the bracelet can focus on either the girl's hobbies and life up to that point, or they can be chosen in celebration of her accomplishments and graduation.
And just so you know, silver charms and graduation charm bracelets are also appropriate for college graduates as well as high school or junior high grads, regardless of their actual age. The key is to choose charms with level appropriate school themes like school books, globes, pom poms, sports mascots or club emblems. Anything indicative of your graduates school activities personified in a silver charm are all great additions and sure to be much appreciated.
Charms for high school grads might be a diploma and then when she completes the requirements for a bachelor's degree, she can add to the charms that she got in honor of her graduation from high school and junior college.
For the younger girls graduating from high school, silver charms depicting a diploma are a great idea. These charms for bracelets can be either in a traditional scroll which is rolled and tied with a silver bow, or they can look like an actual diploma documents.
*Ladders
Ladders, intended to represent climbing the ladder of success, are a fun and non-traditional way to celebrate the time of graduation. Ladder shaped charms are a wonderful addition to a graduation charm bracelet since they are very attractive as well as unique when attached to the links and included as part of a graduation charm bracelet.
*Keys
Keys, are meant to represent that graduation holds the keys to success. A ring of keys or an individual key would be an interesting charm for your group of silver charms with a graduation theme. Key charms can also be a double representation of both graduation and perhaps the purchase or reward of a brand new car or a girl's first apartment.
*Caps
A mortor board or cap or cap and gown silver charms would be perfect for any type of graduation including high school as well as graduation from a college and university, even for girls who returned to school as an adult.
The best way to create a graduation charm bracelet is to include individual, personalized or engraved silver charms on a high quality bracelet. The charms selected in celebration of the graduation serve as long lasting remembrances and congratulations from family and friends. If you aren't sure of the right words to say, there are many charms that come with an inspirational quote or a message of good luck and future success already engraved.
Friday, November 9, 2007
Tori Spelling's Cuff Bracelets
I just saw Tori Spelling on The View and she was giving away two bracelets from her jewelry line to each audience member. The hammered openwork cuff bracelet and the simulated jade bracelet were the gold bracelets that were being offered.
The wide honeycomb looked pretty from my vantage point, but I have found that many goldtone bracelets and other jewelry items look best in small sizes. If the item is too big, it just looks fake. I was wondering if anybody had seen the Tori Spelling jewelry line in person and could comment on whether the yellow goldtone looks like yellow gold or is it just yellow metal?
The designs are good and I have nothing against faux gold, but I like high quality fakes!
The wide honeycomb looked pretty from my vantage point, but I have found that many goldtone bracelets and other jewelry items look best in small sizes. If the item is too big, it just looks fake. I was wondering if anybody had seen the Tori Spelling jewelry line in person and could comment on whether the yellow goldtone looks like yellow gold or is it just yellow metal?
The designs are good and I have nothing against faux gold, but I like high quality fakes!
Saturday, August 18, 2007
THE NEW HI-TECH SNAP BRACELET CONCEPT
Remember all the hype awhile back regarding snap bracelets? We heard all kinds of urban rumors and myths involving suicides to ritualized sexual behavior and for the life of me I can't sort it all out even now!
The snap bracelet that this entry pertains to is of the high tech variety that I can't wait to try. It's actually more of an electronic gadget than a bracelet (nope, it doesn't have anything to do with house arrest so relax).
This bracelet called Snap is an MP3 player that is worn on the wrist (thus the term bracelet) which in and of itself might not be that cool, except that the Snap bracelet can be controlled with gestures the user makes with their hand and audio feedback, not by using traditional knobs or buttons. This means that in circumstances where the usual means of operation might prove difficult or darn near impossible, flexing the wrist will get the job done and let you know the outcome via the wireless earbuds. Get this, the earbuds and MP3 player communicate with each other by no other transmission medium than the user's own skin making wires completely unnecessary and radio interference a thing of the past!
You would load your songs wirelessly via wi-fi and there you have it! This whole concept is so streamlined and cool and I wish I could say the same for the look of the snap bracelet. The trade-off for all the technology available at the flick of your wrist is that the cover for all those electronics, the bracelet, is clunky. The picture that I saw doesn't make me categorize the snap bracelet as cutting edge fashion. I think that until they are able to scale down and minimize the size of the snap bracelet, I'll continue to wear my silver and gold lo-tech jewelry and enjoy my tunes that are on my old-fashioned wired Ipod.
If they can get this electronic snap bracelet down to the size of a medium sized bangle, I'll be the first in line to SNAP it up!
As a side note, I shopped around for something comparable and came up with a wrist watch that is a recorder/MP3 player that's marketed as all things as SpyGear!
It's not wireless and it does look more like a man's device, but it stores 256 megabytes and you can listen to 5 hours of music and it's so much smaller than the wireless snap bracelet. Plus it tells you the time!
Friday, August 17, 2007
FANCY GOLD BEADED BRACELETS WITH MAGNETIC VISUAL APPEAL
Look out bangles. For those of us that don't particularly enjoy the sounds of wide gold bangle bracelets clanking on our wrists every time we move our arms, here's a comfortable (and very fancy) alternative!
It's flashy, cool and oh so very eye catching! It will be bright and sophisticated with cocktail attire or any outfit that leaves your arms bare and in need of some 14k gold decoration that will draw attention.
Before you discount the importance of this gold bracelet's charms, consider that for a real 14k gold bracelet the price almost screams wholesale! Granted, the beads are hollow gold, but real gold. I have seen similar gold bracelets on sale for the fall and holiday season that are nearly as expensive as this one that are not even real gold!
Gold bangle bracelets are fabulous but noisy and they are not cheap if you get a nice one. Gold filled or plated bracelets can be very stylish and less expensive than solid gold but they tend to look worn and cheap after a while. This cool stretch bracelet has real gold beads which will if anything look BETTER with wear, is comfortable and doesn't make a sound. Which do you think a frugal fashionista or an intelligent diva looking to expand her jewelry inventories will buy?
 14k Beaded Stretch Bracelet 7 |
It's flashy, cool and oh so very eye catching! It will be bright and sophisticated with cocktail attire or any outfit that leaves your arms bare and in need of some 14k gold decoration that will draw attention.
Before you discount the importance of this gold bracelet's charms, consider that for a real 14k gold bracelet the price almost screams wholesale! Granted, the beads are hollow gold, but real gold. I have seen similar gold bracelets on sale for the fall and holiday season that are nearly as expensive as this one that are not even real gold!
Gold bangle bracelets are fabulous but noisy and they are not cheap if you get a nice one. Gold filled or plated bracelets can be very stylish and less expensive than solid gold but they tend to look worn and cheap after a while. This cool stretch bracelet has real gold beads which will if anything look BETTER with wear, is comfortable and doesn't make a sound. Which do you think a frugal fashionista or an intelligent diva looking to expand her jewelry inventories will buy?
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
AN INFORMAL MOISSANITE REVIEW
I know I don’t need to tell you that manmade stuff is getting awfully close to mimicking nature, do I? We have manmade stones of the landscaping variety and then we have manmade stones trying their very hardest to look like real mine cut diamonds. They’ve been at it for years! We’re all familiar with CZ fake diamonds. We thought that DeBeers was going to be run out of business, didn’t we? Yes, it looked like we could shine like the stars on the cheap until the 3 carat CZ began to get cloudy in a short while. At least mine did and I noticed that nobody else wore their fake diamonds very long either.
Now comes the new fake lookalike diamond on the block: moissanite. Moissanite stones beat the pants off CZ hands down no doubt, but are they just as cool as diamonds? Well, here's my completely informal, unbiased review of moissanite.
Some friends of mine have gone on and an about moissanite for years now, but I have to tell you that I put a couple of moissanite pieces side by side with some less than perfect diamonds today and moissanite was just not that impressive! For one thing, several of the moissanite stones had a distinctly greenish tint! GREEN! And not in an emerald or peridot kind of way. Imagine what a diamond with hangover might look like. After getting up close and magnified in the presence of flourescent lighting the green around the gills look lightened to a pale yellow. Not a lovely rare canary yellow diamond yellow, just an off-putting color. To be fair, all moissanite stones are not the same, there are different levels of moissanites. Maybe I got a bad batch?
Granted, you could put some of the better moissanite stones in a spectacular setting and pass them off to people that don’t know what they are looking at, but YOU would know, wouldn’t you? If it were me, I’d always be paranoid about somebody talking about that fake diamond that I was lying about. Moissanite costs a tenth of what a real diamond costs, and of course you pay the same for a comparable setting of gold or platinum. I’m just not sure the savings are substantial enough to settle for a moissanite tennis bracelet, ring or earrings. Fake is fake in my opinion and I’d rather do without or get something genuine for a cheaper price.
Now comes the new fake lookalike diamond on the block: moissanite. Moissanite stones beat the pants off CZ hands down no doubt, but are they just as cool as diamonds? Well, here's my completely informal, unbiased review of moissanite.
Some friends of mine have gone on and an about moissanite for years now, but I have to tell you that I put a couple of moissanite pieces side by side with some less than perfect diamonds today and moissanite was just not that impressive! For one thing, several of the moissanite stones had a distinctly greenish tint! GREEN! And not in an emerald or peridot kind of way. Imagine what a diamond with hangover might look like. After getting up close and magnified in the presence of flourescent lighting the green around the gills look lightened to a pale yellow. Not a lovely rare canary yellow diamond yellow, just an off-putting color. To be fair, all moissanite stones are not the same, there are different levels of moissanites. Maybe I got a bad batch?
Granted, you could put some of the better moissanite stones in a spectacular setting and pass them off to people that don’t know what they are looking at, but YOU would know, wouldn’t you? If it were me, I’d always be paranoid about somebody talking about that fake diamond that I was lying about. Moissanite costs a tenth of what a real diamond costs, and of course you pay the same for a comparable setting of gold or platinum. I’m just not sure the savings are substantial enough to settle for a moissanite tennis bracelet, ring or earrings. Fake is fake in my opinion and I’d rather do without or get something genuine for a cheaper price.
Sunday, June 17, 2007
10 CARAT DIAMOND TENNIS BRACELET or a 2 CARAT DIAMOND BRACELET for the same price
You don't have to get a 10 carat diamond tennis bracelet for it to look good on your arm. In fact you can get a lot of complements on a rather inexpensive or even CHEAP bracelet. A filled heart diamond tennis bracelet make use a few diamonds on the connecting links and may even come in 10kt gold rather than 14kt gold.
The set of the diamonds in a less expensive piece is very important. The sparkle depends on reflection of light from various angles. A large and perfect diamond can stand on its own but lesser quality stones might need a little help. A 10 carat diamond tennis bracelet constructed out ofth flawed, muddy or low quality diamonds may be more difficult to set in a way that will camouflage the defects than a bracelet set with smaller diamonds.
There are cases where bigger is not better and you may find that this holds especially true in the world of fine jewelry. A 10 carat diamond tennis bracelet sounds great in theory but may not look nearly as good as a 2 carat diamond bracelet you actually see it on your arm. A finely styled bracelet in the two carat diamond range is much more attractive in my opinion. Of course there are those people that aren't that interested in style and just want bragging rights and certainly bling sizes are running larger than life right now.
Expect to pay big bucks for a 10 carat diamond tennis bracelet set with diamonds of good color, cut and clarity. Recently I have seen appraisals for diamond tennis bracelets of this type for upwards of $18,000.00. Of course you might find one for sale at a discount on auction but be certain that you get buyer's insurance so that you are covered in case that the dream 10 carat diamond tennis bracelet doesn't turn into a nightmare.
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