Saturday, October 20, 2007

Bring Color and Style to Your Jewelry Wardrobe with Costume Jewelry for 2007 and 2008 Season

Costume Jewelry is a wonderful way to bring color to your seasonal wardrobe without the expensive investment of fine jewelry. Costume jewelry is affordable, popular and fashionable. With costume jewelry you can create your own style for each season with new and favorite pieces that cross over seasonal fashions.

Create Your Own Style with Costume Jewelry

With the rich heritage in design and style you can create your own style with costume jewelry. I know I have costume jewelry sets for different looks and different outfits.

Costume jewelry is also known as fashion jewelry with the term really becoming popular in the 20th Century, even though it has been worn from the year dot. We love adorning ourselves whether that be with precious gemstones or with handmade glass beaded jewelry. Now the costume jewelry of the last 200 years is being collected and celebrated and being used for inspiration for contemporary designs.

Swarvoski Crystals Technical Breakthrough

The skills in cutting and setting techniques made a huge leap in the 18th and 19th centuries, including the crystal machine cutting revolution of Daniel Swarvoski that created the Swarvoski crystals we all love today.

Just across the border in Bohemia, now Czech Republic, high quality paste stones and lampwork beads were being created to meet the growing demand by the blossoming European middle-classes. The regional competition between the jewelry manufacturing countries created top quality, colorful and creative designs that we are still benefiting from today.

For the first time jewelry designers had a wide choice of components with which to work. The costume jewelry designs quickly became extravagant as designers could take greater risks with the non-precious components that they could not take with expensive gem stones like diamonds. So costume jewelry design ended up leading fine jewelry design and still does in many ways today.

Costume Jewelry Revolution Right Here, Right Now Costume jewelry is going through another revolution today with the emergence of manufacturing China, the internet with its breaking down of access barriers for independent jewelry designers around the world.

Chinese manufacturers are clever at finding stunning designs through out jewelry design history to copy but they are not focused on creating original jewelry designs. The quality of the Chinese products is improving but it is still miles behind the standard of excellence of the European costume jewelry.

The Chinese fashion jewelry is very cheap and designed for a short couple of seasons life in the most popular colors of the day. While European companies like Swarvoski are solidly working on creative and original costume jewelry designs for each season that will last for decades and are already becoming collectors pieces.

Swarvoski is keeping alive the exciting and colorful heritage of costume jewelry design that is accessible, affordable and leading the way for contemporary jewelry design.

Other independent jewelry designers are using the top quality European jewelry components like Czech handmade lampwork beads and crystals for beaded jewelry, Venetian glass heart pendants for loving necklaces and the bead charms of Denmark’s Trollbeads.

Right Costume Jewelry Designer For You

So when you are going through your jewelry wardrobe and looking at your jewelry color themes for the coming season have fun exploring the online jewelry stores for the fashion jewelry designs that will give you the look you want.

Online jewelry directories can give you great access to talented costume jewelry designs who can even do custom jewelry designs for you.

If vintage costume jewelry is what you are after you can find that online at jewelry stores too as well as designs created today.

Of course online jewelry stores are just one of your options. You can find costume jewelry at nearly all jewelry retailers, at your local shopping mall, arts and crafts fairs, bead shows, wedding expos, markets and fairs, as well as home jewelry party plan showings.

So enjoy your jewelry, adorn yourself in the colors and styles that reflect your personality and style.

See Creatively Belle Costume Jewelry Designs Click Here

 

Remember, jewelry is meant to be enjoyed so make sure you make the most of your collection.

Smiles

Belinda

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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

See How Easily You Can Bargain Hunt the Best Online Jewelry Gift Ideas

Hey there,

Women love to bargain hunt, especially with online shopping sale like discounted gift item sale shopping, apparel and clothes, fashion designer closeout sale shopping, handbags and shoes, jewelry and accessories, and the internet has made that oh so much more easier with the added bonus of having the fabulous buys being delivered right to the door. So it can be like Christmas every week with sale items arriving!

Searching on the net for the best sale deals and online shopping sales can take a while and it is much easier to have a collection of the best sales around being sent directly to your email just like what Missy Confidential does. I love her weekly email of sales news both in the shops and online.

I love her fashion sale email so much I go over the moon when Missy Confidential profiles my Creatively Belle online shopping sales like she is doing this week!

One of the things I love about Missy Confidential when she profiles my sales is her audience is all over a big country so people who wouldn’t normally know about my work gets to see the collection.

Wouldn’t it be great if there was the equivelant email newsletter for the US and UK? If you know of any leave details in the comments below for all of us to share.

If you love shopping for discounted and sale item gifts, especially jewelry, check out our lastest online sale here at Creatively BelleWe’ve included our new French designed wire jewelry display stands for you especially!

Sale Shopping! Save Up to 40% Off Online Sale! Click here

We can change hook style earrings into clip earrings for you on request - all very easy and it is great to have a broader choice about clip on earring styles!

Happy Shopping!

Smiles

Belinda

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Shop securely at our online jewelry store!

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Monday, June 18, 2007

Build a Successful Party Plan Business In Australia

Hey there,

Australia has a direct selling industry worth over $1.3 Billion per year of members by the Direct Selling Association Australia (DSAA) alone. That’s not taking into account the independent direct selling party plan consultants who aren’t members so the figure is much higher.

Since 2005 I’ve been doing jewellery party plan locally in Sydney and Canberra  I’ve been amazed how many people regularly have direct sale parties in their homes as a normal part of socialising and shopping. Most direct selling party plan businesses seem to be independent businesses run by women with products for women.

Unlike in America party games are not popular with Australian customers and are seen as being awkward and embarrassing (in a negative sense). Party games are really only held by party plan companies that originate in the US and are not used by home grown businesses.

For many direct selling businesses they are succeeding so well they find it challenging getting enough consultants and you’ll see requests like selling consultants party plan melbourne needed, so it is a booming industry.

So to help other local Australian Party Plan businesses and consultants I’ve written a series of articles that are available online for you in the Business Tips area, the Web Marketing area and now the Party Plan Resources area with info on how to start your own party plan business.

I do also supply my handcrafted lampwork jewellery designs at wholesale rates so come visit our Wholesale Info area for more details about wholesale jewellery.

Click here for bargain shopping at our online jewellery and earring stands sale!

Smiles,

Belinda

www.CreativelyBelle.com - shop securely at our online jewellery store and go in our free jewellery competition today!

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Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Freshwater Pearl Choker Necklace

Hey there,

In time for our Mother’s Day Fashion Jewelry Sale we have launched the Freshwater Pearl Choker Necklace online for you with your choice of pearls - White Pearl Choker Necklace, Pink Pearl Choker Necklace and Black Pearl Choker Necklace.

We also have available matching pearls earrings including clip pearl earrings, drop pearl earrings, stud pearl earrings, freshwater white pearl earrings, pink pearl earrings and black pearl earrings.

All our jewelry comes in handmade organza gift bags so they make great presents for yourself and your loved ones.

Click here for our online Fashion Jewelry Sale

Smiles

Belinda

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Monday, April 30, 2007

Mother’s Day Fashion Jewelry Sale

Hey there,

I’ve just launched our Mother’s Day Fashion Jewelry sale including earring holders, pearl stud earrings, pearl drop earrings, handmade lampwork jewelry, jewelry rolls, clip earrings, floating necklaces, red earrings, lampwork glass earrings and more. So have some fun and go shopping!

So get something beautiful for Mother’s Day and for yourself too! Click here for Mother’s Day Fashion Jewelry Sale

Shop securely with Creatively Belle online with PayPal.  FREE Earrings for all online orders for a Limited Time only!

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Smiles

Belinda

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