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August 21, 2010

Customize Your Funeral Jewelry to Create a Personal Dedication

Cremation jewelry is a new and exciting way to honor a loved one that has passed away and can no longer physically share your life. Saying good-bye to a loved one is so difficult and when you don’t get the chance to say your good-byes, can be devastating. Through the tragedy of losing people in our lives, the jewelry industry has worked hard to come up with innovative ways to keep them alive in our hearts. Jewelry Keepsakes is one of the premier online jewelry stores to have cremation jewelry available directly to consumers. Their line of pendants is diverse and beautiful and makes it easy to find an honor to your loved one that you can wear at all times.

Funeral jewelry should be accessible to consumers with a variety of different options. Without options, it makes it difficult to customize and personalize your keepsake to reflect the loved one you are commemorating. Having a medley of options also allows consumers to take the ordinary and turn it into the extraordinary by adding something special that you chose and that brings to life your memories of those that you lost. Jewelry Keepsakes not only has an extensive collection of cremation keepsakes but most of their pendants offer many different options for customizing and personalizing.

One of the more popular options for customizing your jewelry urn is engraving. Selecting a small amount of engraving for the back or front of your keepsake gives it a name or a feeling that helps you associate your pendant with your loved one. If you think about it, what would make the keepsake pendant alive – pendant with no engraving or a keepsake with your loved one’s name, date of birth, a special anniversary or even a nickname. Every time you ran your finger over the engraving it would bring their memory to life. A cremation pendant with engraving is an area where Jewelry Keepsakes is especially strong and they have many keepsakes that offer engraving. Most of their memorial lockets offer anywhere from one to three lines of engraving on the back of the pendant. Each line will hold three to ten characters depending on the individual jewelry. In addition to offering engraving, Jewelry Keepsakes also gives their customers the option of engraving styles. Each remembrance jewelry urn by Jewelry Keepsakes typically offers block font as well as script font as an engraving style choice.

Another option that you will find with a funeral urn pendant selection is the option of selecting the chain or cording that is inclusive with your purchase. Many online companies do not offer a chain selection or have a very limited assortment for you to choose from. Other online retailers, like Jewelry Keepsakes, not only offer you a range of free necklaces and cordings that are included with your purchase but they also offer the option of upgrading your chain or cording selection. Jewelry Keepsakes offers your choice of either a matching sterling silver or gold filled chain with each cremation pendant purchase as well as the opportunity to upgrade to a sterling silver or 14 karat gold snake chain or sterling silver or 14 karat gold box chain. Optimizing your selections that are available with your cremation jewelry allow every customer to maximize the emotional benefits they will reap when wearing and displaying their jewelry pendants.

Options are an important and vital part of selecting the cremation jewelry to commemorate the life of a loved one that has passed away. Choosing the correct metal that compliments your lifestyle and personal taste as well as the theme or image that correlates to your loved one is important and necessary when creating your lasting memory. Jewelry Keepsakes is one of the best online cremation jewelry companies when it comes to quality, affordability and options for pendants. They offer engraving on most of their keepsakes and encourage their customers to upgrade their chain selection by making it affordable to do so. Versatility can make the difference between loving a pendant and liking it and Jewelry Keepsakes has the options to help you create the memory of your loved one that you’re looking for. Contact them via phone, email or online chat.

June 9, 2010

How to Create Handcrafted Jewelry Handmade Earrings Unique Bracelets Using Patinas

Attaining incredible layers of color on your handcrafted jewelry is easily achieved with the use of Liver of sulfur. This wondrous chemical compound oxidizes many different metals creating fantastic colors on your handmade earrings and unique bracelets making your handmade jewelry extraordinary. The varieties of colors that can be achieved range from gold to black and everything in between. No other chemical can produce such wide-ranging color patterns on the surface of a variety of metals including copper and silver.

Working in a well ventilated area is a definite must, outdoors is preferable. The odor of rotten eggs given off by liver of sulfur can be overwhelming if used in a closed area. It is easy to be put off by the smell but the results are simply amazing.

Liver of sulfur comes in two types. The liquid form can be used straight from the bottle, but the shelf life is unpredictable even when stored in a cool, dark place. Solid liver of sulfur is usually sold in small chunks, which are mixed as needed. For this reason, it is better to buy small amounts of the solid and make your solution mixing only what you need to create the most beautiful handmade jewelry.

For your solution, put a 1cm or 1/4 inch clump of solid liver of sulfur in a glass or plastic container with about 1 cup of water. The color of the solution should be a very pale yellow. A strong solution will develop the colors too fast to stop the process at your desired color while too weak of a solution can take too long and build a thick flaky crust. Experiment to find the best concentration for the metal you are working with to get the results you want.

Set up your workstation so you can easily go from one step to the next. Have a heat source, the liver of sulfur solution, cold water bath and finally a soapy baking soda rinse. The secret is to control the process is the solution strength and the temperature. The hotter solution will react faster and the colors will move more quickly from one color to the next. They roughly go from gold, pink, blue, purple, gray and finally black.

Before you begin, your metal handmade jewelry piece should be clean and free from dirt or oils from your hands. Wearing gloves throughout the process is preferable. Liver of sulfur will begin to react the instant you put handmade bracelets or handmade earrings into it. Let the color develop for a couple of seconds on the handmade jewelry piece, then put in the cold water to stop the patina forming. Repeat these steps until you reach the desired color. Finally, rinse the piece in soapy baking soda solution to remove any liver of sulfur residue that could continue to change the color of the patina. Do not rub the handmade jewelry piece with the baking soda mixture as any abrasive will damage the patina finish you have worked hard to create.

Liver of sulfur produces a patina finish on metal handmade jewelry but if not treated the effects will wear over time. Use a clear lacquer finish to protect your handmade earrings and handmade bracelets with their new patina finish. Be adventurous and watch how a little color can change your handcrafted jewelry into a masterpiece!

April 22, 2010

Create a Loving Memory With Jewelry Urn Pendants

Cremation jewelry looks just like a regular jewelry pendant that you would purchase at a jewelry store or other online retailer that sells high end pendants. The difference is in what is inside each pendant. Cremation jewelry has a small inner section or compartment that will hold a small memorial or remembrance of a deceased loved one. Each precious remembrance can consist of any item of special importance but the most common are cremated ashes. Sacred ground from the site of burial, a lock of hair or some crushed flowers from a favorite arrangement are also popular insertions for cremation jewelry. Jewelry Keepsakes has become one of the largest retailers for funeral jewelry online and continues to be a forefront for innovative and unique memorial pendants.

Jewelry pendants that hold cremated ashes or other remembrances serve a variety of special and important purposes. Funeral jewelry provides a lasting and beautiful memory of your loved one that you can have with you at all times. In addition, these pendants are a wonderful and stunning tangible tribute to a loved one that has passed away. Not only is memorial jewelry a tremendous honor to your loved one that is no longer with you in body but with you in spirit but the keepsakes provide a real and touchable memory of your loved one that you can reach out and hold on to when needed. Jewelry Keepsakes has worked diligently to provide a variety of keepsakes that will not only house a small memory of your loved one but that are also trendy and fashion forward enough that you can wear them on a daily basis.

When a loved one passes away, the grief can be overwhelming. You have your memories of your loved one but like everything else, memories can fade over time. Remembrance jewelry from Jewelry Keepsakes provides you with the opportunity to keep your memory alive. Because the remembrance inside your jewelry keepsake is so personal and intimate you will feel closer to your loved one. This in turn will assist in keeping memories of them alive in your heart.

There are many different options as to how to commemorate the life of a loved one that’s died. What better way to celebrate the joy and laughter they added to your life than with a gorgeous jewelry urn from Jewelry Keepsakes. Their keepsakes are available in a variety of metals and finishes as well as with and without gemstones. You can further personalize your keepsake by adding a small amount of engraving to the back of the pendant. At Jewelry Keepsakes, you’re not only creating a lasting memory of your beloved but you’re also giving your memory a beautiful presentation.

Throughout history, families have searched for innovative and creative ways to honor a loved one that has passed on. Even though the actual person is no longer with you, finding a way to honor and commemorate what they added to your life continues to be of great importance. Funeral jewelry is a wonderful outlet for that honor and Jewelry Keepsakes is the company to provide it. Jewelry Keepsakes has a large medley of unique and eclectic keepsakes that make it easy to find the pendant that will best remember and pay homage to your beloved. Whether you select a sterling silver heart keepsake or a 14 karat gold plated cross with Swarovski stones, when it is filled with your remembrance, it goes from an ordinary pendant to an extraordinary urn pendant that boasts of your devotion to a loved one.

Finally, memorial jewelry gives you a tangible and very real reminder of a loved one that has passed. When you are experiencing a moment of grief keepsakes that contain a memory of your loved one are right there. You can literally reach out and physically touch your funeral jewelry. Jewelry Keepsakes supplies customers with a touchable and actual method for remembering a loved one that has passed with their line of exciting and warm sterling silver and 14K gold plated pendants.

Jewelry Keepsakes strives to provide cutting edge as well as brilliant keepsake pendants that will not only become beautiful and tangible memories but also provide comfort in difficult times.