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A freshly struck spring trend is just what we need! Fresh from the catwalk like a paper hot off the press… word spreads like wildfire when an overwhelming trend like this hits the scene.
Bouncing back from a period of sparkle and high polished glamour, we are seeing a return of chunky beads that have the feel of handmade jewelry. Bold Beads flooded the spring catwalks. Designers such as Marc Jacobs, Miuccia Prada and Alberta Ferretti were featuring pop-culture inspired brightly colored beads in primary and turquoise colors. Other designers such as Cacharel, Giles Deacon and Etro combined wooden and turquoise pieces with the African inspired prints. The trend sees in a new appreciation for our talent as humans to create with our hands the designs and styles inspired by, and using those materials that are all around us and come from the Earth.

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Susan Ward Aber

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I’ve written enough about Amber Jewelry to choke a h o r s e… So I thought I would take some time to talk about the other uses for amber. Analgesics: From my previous blog you may know that Amber can be used for baby teething necklaces that are used to calm and soothe a baby during the painful teething process.

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Lets be honest: Jewelry is mostly about aesthetics of course. So the most important thing about discussing jewelry involves showing photographs. Our favourite website for displaying and discussing photographs is Flickr, which is the site allows people to come together to upload, store, discuss and share, their photos.

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Can Baltic Amber Help with Baby Teething?

Amber and Baby Teething

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Globalisation has affected the way we work, eat, think, and live. For us Globalisation has meant expanding the reach of our business across the world to emerging markets. Today, in most parts of the world people can log on to the internet and use a credit card to order and have our jewelry shipped to them no matter where they live.

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Again as a part of our “interview with the experts” series I am pleased to introduce Jagoda Urban-Klaehn from the Polish Culture Website. “Jaga” ads some interesting insight into the position of Baltic Amber in the Polish culture. Hope you enjoy! Read more…

Time for spring! Its February, and that means that as the thoughts of warm weather fill our heads, the spring collections are starting to fill the shelves… In the Spring/Summer collections at London’s Fashion week, there were wonderful flashes of color, especially yellows. Designers from Jasper Conran, to Paul Smith and Betty Jackson featured lovely shades of yellow on the catwalk. In the world of jewelry, Fashion Week saw many more chunky round beaded necklaces, continuing a trend we have seen for the past three years.

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What you find here is the list of the post popular post I’ve published on the Jewelry Blog. The list/index will be updating regularly. Browse some of the oldest posts I’m sure you will find something interesting. Read more…

Simple Amber Pendant

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I get lots of emails about handmade and creative jewelry, and I cannot highlight all of them! But the below email is from an interesting artist specializing in silver clay jewelry. Enjoy our introduction to Christine Street: Read more…

The Green and Cognac colored Cleopatra necklaces are a Signature design from Signature-Gems, and are tremendously popular. We receive a great deal of feedback about the Cleopatra and how wonderful and stunning it is, and what a great gift it makes etc.

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We are proud to present the head blogger and beader from The Beading Gem’s Journal. Pearl has been in the business of everything beads for years and was kind enough to share some thoughts about her business, her blog, and her beads! This is the second interview in our series of thoughts from those in the jewelry business, and we hope you enjoy!(Read the first interview with Debby Arem)

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Lately more and more, we see the popularity of Baltic Amber spreading around the world. Recently we were lucky enough to go on vacation to Costa Rica. The beauty of Costa Rica is in its natural features and nature-related activities.

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One truth about online shopping that we all have to come to terms with is that being online means being at the mercy of shipping times. We all know that it is best to start shopping early, but when it comes to online shopping this is somewhat of a necessity. Due to the constraints of shipping, and the holiday hours of Signature-Gems, the holiday schedule goes as follows:

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