MAKE JEWELRY SHINE WITH BAKING SODA! EVERY JEWELRY ITEM I REPAIR OR MAKE FOR MY CUSTOMERS I FINISH WITH THIS FAST SIMPLE STEP. TAKE A SOFT TOOTHBRUSH AND GET IT WET WITH WATER, THEN ADD A DROP OR TWO OF YOUR...
About Gold Filled Jewelry Solid, or pure gold, is extremely difficult to find. Common varieties of gold are 18K, 14K and 10K. The K stands for Karat and is used to describe the percentage of gold an item...
Just Why Is This Metal So Precious? The purpose of this guide is to give a little information on fine gold jewelry and what makes it such a highly valued, precious metal. Gold is an attractive, ancient...
Polymer clay beads sold on Ebay are predominately artisan made and are available in a variety of styles, shapes and colors. Although you will find many of artists make polymer beads geared towards use in...
Hallmarks are most often found on precious metal objects. Jewelry is exempted from hallmarking under certain circumstances. However, when a piece of jewelry is hallmarked, the marks can yield clues to country...
SOLID GOLD Solid gold is the total of 24k, however 24k can not stand alone or be hard enough to wear as jewelry that is why they mix it with other alloys of metal in order for them to be strong enough to be...
It is tradition to wear a RED STRING BENDEL on your left wrist for protection in health and fortune. Thin Red String Bendel -Some people swear by them. According to ancient custom, negative energy is...
Alpacca Silver (Alpaca) refers to an alloy* that imitates sterling silver. This non-precious bright silvery-grey metal alloy is made up of copper, zinc and nickel and sometimes iron. Alpacca Silver does NOT...
Many people wonder just how to take care of their sterling silver jewelry. When you first purchased that silver necklace, ring or broach it was shiny and beautiful. In time silver tarnishes from the...
Well the folks that sell cleaning polish are gonna hate this but I thought I'd pass along some experience to some of my customers. If you have solid cast quality sterling I have a little trick for cleaning...