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Drum roll! Feature stories today are talking about Pantone’s “Color of the Year” for 2013. I’m not even sure how they got the job but by now, Pantone’s predictions heavily influence the colors that will be Hot for the next season – in housewares, fashion, and of course, jewelry. I don’t think it’s the be-all and end-all that they want us to believe but still, it’s interesting.
So it was serendipity that I had just made a graphic of some of the lovely emerald jewels in my my Etsy jewelry supplies shop:
I have to say, I love emerald. It’s not just because I’m (sometimes, with a little help) a redhead. It’s just such a rich, flattering, luxurious color. And it looks good on just about everybody. And it’s gorgeous. And did I say rich?
Color of the year: emerald. They could do worse 🙂
Sometimes we have to remind ourselves – people do have birthdays in December! There’s so much activity centered around Christmas, let’s remember our birthday girls too 🙂
The birthstones – or birthstone colors – for December can vary according to the source, how traditional or modern, etc. But in general, these are considered to be the birthday colors for December:
Blue zircon, turquoise, and blue topaz (yes, the colors are often gemstone-oriented!)
And I just happen to have some lovely turquoise, aqua, and blue zircon vintage glass jewels in my Etsy jewelry supplies shop. Like these:
Aqua is actually one of my most popular colors – I think because it’s universallly flattering. I usually have more shapes available – and in December it’s also birthstone-appropriate!
I wanted to show off this outrageous color – these are new rhinestone jewels I just listed in my Etsy shop:
I actually took pics of the pear jewels with the foil backing (this is the way they arrived) – see the top half of this pic. I removed the foil, just to see how they looked – I think I might like the sheer jewels even better. But it’s a close call!
They make wonderful party jewelry for you or as a gift – and like good DIY, they cost a lot less than buying ready-made. If you’re looking for hot pink or fuschia jewels, I bet you’ll love these 🙂
Just a peek at some of the clear vintage glass and vintage rhinestone jewels I have available in my Etsy jewelry supplies shop right now.
I love clear jewels – and I didn’t expect to. I mean, they’re colorless, they must be boring, right? Wrong! They have a lot more sparkle than I ever would have expected – glass cutters know what they’re doing, it turns out 🙂 And since the jewels are clear, they really do go with everything.
This is a win-win. Your jewelry looks good – and you don’t have to agonize over choosing. Just grab it and go.
You save time. You look great. You’ve got a little added sparkle 🙂
Yay!
PS By the way – and I’m sure this has already occurred to you, if you’re looking for bridal jewelry….. Clear jewels are fabulous for a bride. They add sparkle and light, and they don’t compete with your gown. Like I said, win/win!
And this I thought was very interesting. I posted a couple days ago to show off my pretty vitrail (volcano) pear jewels. And I do love them.
But some of them had bad foil, so I did my usual removal thing (soak in vinegar and salt).
So this is how they look once the foil backing has been removed:
Pretty cool, huh?
And yes they’re available in my Etsy jewelry supplies shop.
Vitrail. Volcano. Two interesting names for a gorgeous jewel color combo.
I don’t know for sure where they came up with the names – I suspect they’re copied from a Swarovski color. Daniel Swarovski was an engineering and possibly marketing genius, and certainly his company is at the top of the field, both marketing-wise and quality-wise. A lot of their names have melded into public color names – siam red, for example.
Vitrail or volcano, these are the SAME jewels, with pics taken under different lighting conditions:
Sometimes they show purple, green, topaz, pink, coral or tan colors against that deep background. Sometimes they’re almost all green, or blue. Sometimes – well, you get the idea. They’re almost never exactly the same – each piece has tiny differences.
All gorgeous.
If light purple or lilac works with your wedding colors, these will make wonderful bridal and bridesmaid jewelry for you 🙂
These jewels measure 16mm (about 5/8″) x 12mm (just a smidge under 1/2″). They’re a great size for earrings and necklace focals. I’ve placed them in shining silver plated settings. The underlying metal is brass – which contains no nickel or lead. These are gentle on the skin.
They’re available in my Etsy jewelry supplies shop.
I figured it was time for a new look at my Etsy jewelry supplies shop. Often times I can get new supplies of some of my “classic” vintage glass jewels – but I also have some wonderful new colors. And some classic rhinestone styles that are new (and reorderable) – and well just gorgeous!
I’ve talked before about do it yourself – and how you can make just what you want. And save money. And, well, these days saving money is about as fashionable as you can get 🙂
Green rhinestone jewels – in their many incarnations – well, they’re special. Partly because I’m a redhead – well, sometimes, with just a little help 🙂 Partly because the tang of olivene green is always fresh – and peridot sparkles – and emerald green? Well, let’s just say emerald is flattering on almost everyone – I mean, really flattering. And it’s gorgeous. And looks expensive.
For example – these are just some of the green vintage glass jewels I’ve got in my Etsy shop right now:
You see what I mean? Flatterng. Affordable. Gorgeous 🙂
P.S. Yes, I’m on my “vintage glass beads or jewels” kick. Funny how used we are to using “beads” in our jewelry – even when technically they’re not beads because they have no holes (so, they’re “stones”). But people like to say “beads”. So, well, “beads” it is, sometimes 🙂
This is just a peek at some of the work I’m going to be featuring this season. Haven’t even got it posted (or linked) yet – so, call it shades of things to come (and if you want to find out about it in the meantime, send me a note to jennifer at weekend-jewelry dot com…)
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Am just loving the emerald this year!
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