Thank you to Megan of Etsy Bride for featuring our Garnet Red Bridal Necklace in her fabulous blog. I sometimes take a peek at what she's doing over there, because she always puts together great items and color schemes.

Thank you so much, Megan!!

White Mystic Topaz...

If you've never seen highest gem quality white mystic topaz you're missing a real treat. They sparkle like diamonds, and the colors refracted are mesmerizing.

These gem quality, positively delicious rainbow mystic white topaz faceted pear briolettes are, bar none, some of the most gorgeous, luxe stones we have in stock. They are totally clear, but pick up and refract the light to spark off a range of colors. They are simple in design: just the gorgeous topaz wrapped in oxidized sterling silver, hanging from ball end oxidized sterling ear wires, and are approximately 1 1/8" in length, from top to bottom.

I'm a huge fan of moonstone and these are even lovelier than the finest moonstone . These stones are topaz, not quartz, which means they are of a much higher quality and greater hardness and durability. Their clarity is superb, having a classification of VVS, or AAA quality. Magnificent! You may find them here.

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Now, on to the next pair of white mystic topaz earrings! These are longer, at 2 inches, and use beautiful little silver and marcasite 'S" connectors. They are One Of A Kind (or, OOAK)!

Elegant in design, I hand-wrapped these gorgeous brios in shiny sterling silver and hung them from silver and marcasite connectors and semi-circle sterling silver ear wires. Their design makes for a long -- but not too long, slinky design. You may find these earrings here.

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Parrot Toy Angels' 2010 Spring Auction

From time to time, AMJ donates a piece of jewelry for good cause. Recently, we made a custom pair of Adorable Little Birdie Earrings in Silver for Parrot Toy Angels' 2010 Spring Auction. Parrot Toy Angels is an all volunteer, 501c3 non-profit organization that is committed to providing toys, food and other avian supplies to companion birds in need. More information about Parrot Toy Angels can be found here. If you would like to donate funds you can click here. If you would like to donate a item for their upcoming auction, please contact them at: donations (at) parrottoyangels (dot) org . All donations are tax-deductible.

AMJ also carries the Adorable Little Birdie Earrings in a black matte finish and with different kinds of beads. Because at Adorn Me we love birdies, we have a number of bird-based items. To see them click here.

Adorn Me will be selling a pair of these earrings from our shop as well, and 20% of the total sale price will be donated to Parrot Toy Angels. Happy shopping!

Adorn Me now offers Bridal and Special Occasion jewelry

For your day to remember -- be it a wedding, prom, important first date, or just because you love it. :)

It's your special day and you want your jewelry to be perfect. It's been in the plans to have a Wedding & Bridal section for a while, but one can only squeeze so many hours out of a day. Starting small but building, we will also be offering bride's maids gift jewelry, as well.

Please visit our Wedding and Bridal section and also check out the many eclectic new pieces of jewelry recently uploaded as well, to Adorn Me Jewelry at Etsy shop.

Ember - Captivating, Warmly colored Vintage Bead earrings

The firey warmth in these beautiful beads evoke the image of burning embers. You should know that those 'flames' were not Photoshopped in, but truly cast that firey glow onto the paper under the earrings.

The tortoise shell pattern infused within these vintage acrylic pinch beads make them captivating focal beads, particularly when lit from behind -- as you can plainly see. The design is simple, so these rich-looking 25mm round beads shine on center stage.

They hang from large sterling silver kidney wires, with sterling wire wrapped simply to give them stability. They are 3" long, including the ear wires, and easily dress up or down, according to your outfit. Their warm tones are perfect for winter evenings.

Your jewelry will arrive in a glossy black box with an Adorn Me jewelry label outside and a folded burgundy-colored note inside, written in silver metallic ink on nice card stock. If your purchase is a gift for someone, you can send us a Conversation and tell us what you would like hand-written on the card. This is then boxed and wrapped up in a sparkly silver ribbon, all ready for gift-giving! If you prefer we can leave the ribbon untied, so you can peek inside to see the gift you're giving and then tie the ribbon yourself, just message me. You can see more, and larger, photos in Adorn Me jewelry's store at Etsy.

Custom Design - Masai Mara

This piece is named " Masai Mara," because the gorgeous Picture Rhodonite focal bead has a scenic landscape that reminds me of the beautiful Masai Mara reserve in Africa.

Our client wanted a double necklace, with a pendant on the lower strand, using pink and brown. When I found this spectacular bead I knew it was for her, and I knew it would be the perfect foundation upon which her beautiful one of a kind necklace would be crafted.

The stones used in the creation of Masai Mara are rose quartz nuggets, tiger's eye nuggets, smoky topaz glass, rhodonite rondelles, a few rhodonite nuggets, and a whole lot of tiny sterling silver round beads. It features a beautiful antiqued silver toggle and a drop made from a rose quartz nugget, a rhodonite nugget and a stamped silver tag that reads "hope.'

If you are interested in something like it, drop us a line using the contact form at: www.adornmejewelry.net. I'll never be able to find another focal bead just like it, but the other elements can be used, along with a different rhodonite focal bead.

Custom Design - An Abundant Goddess.

Our client fell in love with the Abundant Goddes Venus series necklaces and wanted one of her own, so Adorn Me happily obliged, and made a matching pair of earrings, as well.

The goddess focal bead hangs from a hand-crafted sterling silver bail. It is a black agate, with a few striations in white, gray and brown. She wears a sterling silver wire belly bracelet adorned with hematite seed beads and small laboradite rondelles.

The necklace itself is made of black glass coin disk beads, clear glass diamond-shaped beads, poppy jasper round stones, and more of the laboradite and hematite beads interspersed throughout.

The earrings include all of the elements of the necklace but the pendant, and complete the set nicely.

If you are interested in something like it, drop us a line using the contact form at: www.adornmejewelry.net.

Custom Design - Beach Baby

This necklace/bracelet set is named Beach Baby, because it so evokes the sea and all things beach, from the colors to the stones, from the silver dolphin beads, to the pearls, which come from the ocean. It was commissioned by a client who loves the beach, who loves dolphins, and who wanted a bit of that feel to wear as jewelry.

The necklace and bracelet use basically the same findings: nuggets of apatite (the teal-colored stones) and amazonite (all the rest; amazonite naturally has a color range of blues, greens, whites and browns), sky blue and silver Czech beads, rice fresh water pearls, nautical-themed Bali silver toggles, and three types of dolphins in sterling silver. The neckace has a larger, curled dolphin and two tiny jumping dolphins, as in the detail photo.

The bracelet has a sterling dolphin puff focal bead, and they each have little drops made of the tiny jumping dolphins and Czech glass beads.

What a pleasure it was to create this set -- both the creation and the interaction with our client.

If you are interested in something like it, drop us a line using the contact form at: www.adornmejewelry.net.

Revolution Earrings

Take some sterling findings, including some fine silver Giotto Brillo chain, mix it together with pinky peach keishi petal pearls, simplicity-cut swarovski crystals and then palest pink faceted rose quartz rondelles spinning on a silver axle and you've got Revolution earrings.

This pair measures out to be 1 7/8" long and sell for $28.00, plus a reasonable shipping fee. They can be purchased by using the contact form at www.adornmejewelry.net.

Then, you have a variation on the theme, which includes AB bicone swarovskis and rose quartz nuggets. For whatever reason, I couldn't get really true colors on either of these pair of earrings. In the previous pair, the petal pearls are pinker and more pale than the photo represents; with this pair, that photo shows them as being kind of an pale apricot color, but they're not. They are best represented, color-wise by the third photo, as they are palest baby pink.

This pair measures 1 5/8" long, including the ear wires.

They sell for $27.00, plus a reasonable shipping fee. They can be purchased by using the contact form at www.adornmejewelry.net.

More Gifts of Love - The Freshwater Coin Version

Pretty little swallows bringing good fortune, and bearing luminous gifts of love.
One of my favorite findings, these little antiqued silver over brass swallows are so graceful in design.

The last pair posted here, in July, were raw brass, and they had a bundle of gems hanging from the birds' beaks. This pair is a bit simpler in design, with these lustrous freshwater coin pearls as the 'gifts.' The headpins and earwires are Sterling Silver.

Here's a photo of them with a quarter, for a sense of scale (Canadian quarters are the same size as American quarters). They are almost 2" in length, including the ear wires, and they sell for $32.00, plus a reasonable shipping fee. They can be purchased by using the contact form at www.adornmejewelry.net.

Amanda -- Freshwater Pearl Coin Earrings

I've loved pearls ever since receiving my first pearl earrings at 10 years old. Their glowing luster makes me "oooh" and "aaaah" inside. I have many kinds of pearls just waiting to be part of a design, but lately I've been enjoying the coins.

These Amanda earrings were created for a lovely young woman; they are, in some ways, very much like she is: bright, pretty, petite and round.

These earrings are simple in design, but elegant, and they will compliment most any outfit. They were hand-crafted using Sterling Silver ear wires and headpins.

Here's a photo of them with a quarter, for a sense of scale (Canadian quarters are the same size as American quarters). They are just over 1 1/4" long, including the ear wires, and they sell for $26.00, plus a reasonable shipping fee. They can be purchased by using the contact form at www.adornmejewelry.net.

Over the Moon - Swallows For Good Luck

Swallows have long been a symbol of good luck, because they tell sailors they were getting closer to land, as they do not fly far from shore. Their presence lets farmers know that Spring is coming, and they also eat a lot of insects.

When it comes to these earrings, they are also beautiful birds that fly gracefully over iridescent freshwater coin pearl 'moons.'

These earrings are made with sterling silver wire, though the swallows are silver over brass. They hang from long sterling kidney ear wires that are just over 1.5" in length, for a total earring length of almost 2.5" long. You can get a sense of their scale next to a quarter (Canadian and American quarters are the same size).

These earrings can dress up a little, and they're also great worn with casual attire. These earrings sell for $29.00, plus a reasonable shipping fee, and can be purchased by using the contact form at www.adornmejewelry.net.

Custom Design - Pacifica

This set is named after the ever-changing moods of the Pacific Ocean: the light blue (amazonite nuggets) for warm, calm days -- those summer days where the heat and the cool breeze almost seem dreamlike together. Then the dark teal (apatite nuggets) for colder, less calm days, where the water is choppy and it looks cold. Finally, the greenish (butter jade nuggets) for the roiling, angry sea the Pacific was after the 2006 tsunami. It was green. A shade of green I had never seen before.

Our client had an 8-strand neckace of gorgeous little freshwater pearls -- very tiny. It was given her by her husband and it had been too small for years, so she wasn't able to wear it and wanted to. She wrote me asking if the pearls could be re-strung, making the necklace longer. I offered her the option of adding stones to it to add some interest. She liked that idea and said she wanted stone nuggets water colors, and that she'd also like the accent of dragonflies here and there. I sent her photos of the various nuggets, telling her which ones I felt would work best, and she approved them.

So, the necklace is now 36" long, and has side details of the various nuggets at differing heights, as well as small 2mm silver beads, and on one side, little bali silver dragonflies. It also has a lovely little drop at the back toggle clasp, where hangs a pearl and one nugget of each color -- with a top drilled apatite at the bottom, sharing space with a dragonfly.

It was evident that there was enough pearls left for either one more strand or a matching three-strand bracelet and earrings. She liked the second option, so a bracelet and earrings were created.

The bracelet is really a miniature of the necklace in many ways, down to the matching bali silver toggle closure and the drop hanging from said closure, as you can see from the bracelet close-up.

Our client's preferred earring length is between 1 and 1 1/2 inches from the drop, and they use, a bit differently, all of the elements of the necklace and bracelet. They are suspended from sterling ear wires.

Of course, it's always great fun when a client who knows what she wants gives free rein in the creation of a piece, or set, of jewelry. This set was so very satisfying to create, and that she loves it so much is the ultimate goal and pleasure for this jewelry designer.

The Grape Fizz Necklace.

First: these beads are not pink. They, due to crappy camera syndrome, look pink. They are more of a blueish lavender. Sorry for any confusion...
This necklace is an Adorn Me jewelry one of a kind (OOAK) creation. It was named Grape Fizz, because there are various kinds of purples through it, and the lavender milk stone kind of glows, and depending upon the kind and amount of light, it almost looks a little blue (in spite of how it looks quite pinkish in these photos -- the pink is not true). This necklace is a little magical.

Found in Botswana, Africa, Botswana Agate is a rather hard gemstone. It is composed of banded Chalcedony (which gives it some of its glow).

The pendant itself is 1 7/8" long, and is also comprised of two amethysts and sterling silver. It hangs from a semi-woven necklace made of various iridescent Czech glass beads, milky lavender glass beads, mauve iridescent freshwater pearls, hematite seed beads and a nice hand-wrought silver heart charm (with pearl and glass) near the 'S' closure.

I know the challenges of accurately photographing jewelry without an obscenely expensive photo studio, and so often I see someone say how a piece of jewelry they've photographed just cannot be done justice. I often nod my head, because I know it's sometimes true. So I'll just say about this necklace that none of these photos do it justice.

The necklace is 22 1/4" long, and an decorative extension chain could be made for it, if needed.

Supposedly, according to those who keep track of such things, Eye Agate, or Botswana Agate, enhances sexual energy by giving physical stamina. Guess it can't hurt, anyway. This necklace is priced at $123.00. Matching earrings can be made, if you so desire.

More Abundant Veni

A couple more Veni to add to the collection.

The first is black agate with a nice long sugar druzy. She has a sterling silver wire bail that includes a fresh water iridescent silver pearl, a montana swarovski crystal (kind of a dusky gray-blue) and a small hematite seed bead. These same elements are used on her silver belly bracelet. I used on the silver pair of tulip earrings, as well as some montana swarovskis, and tiny little hematite seed beads. It is strung on black faux suede cord with a sterling S clasp. It can be whatever length you like. It sells for $31.50.

The next -- the one I call the Lemon Cream Venus -- is a bit more elaborate. My inability to really capture it well with the camera is frustrating.

The Lemon Cream Venus is a yellow and white goddess, though it looks like it has more and brighter yellow than it actually does. Its companion stones are yellow quartz (with a very slight green tinge) and clear, diamond-shaped glass beads, as well as AB large Czech glass seed beads and four little chartreuse round pearls. Her belly bracelet has butter jade and clear quartz.

Sterling silver, of course, is the only metal used. There is chain for the back part of it, which can be removed if it's too long at 27 3/4", and it would then be 21 1/2" without the chain. This lemony Venus sells for $75.50.

Summer Solstice - a set.

This next piece is actually a set. It's a bracelet and earrings in the lovely summer colors of chartreuse and turquoise.

Large 20mm ovals of chartreuse howlite alternate with tiny silver beads and 10mm matrix chalk turquoise ovals make up this matching bracelet and earring set.

The bracelet has petite but effective bali silver a toggle closure, and hanging from it a little silver dragonfly, two small silver beads and a top-drilled AB swarovski crystal. It is adorned with bali beads at the ends. The howlite is a true chartreuse green and the chalk turquoise has a nice bronzey matrix.

The earrings really match the bracelet exactly -- down to being finished at the bottoms with the same little antiqued silver dragonflies that set off the bracelet. Here's a close-up of them.

The bracelet is 9.5 inches long and the earrings, from the drop are 2 inches long. The set sells for $51.50.