Milton Gems Jewellery News

Well, it’s the end of December (where did Christmas go?) and coming upto January and the month of Garnet is here - the january birthstone.

Found in a wide range of shades of red, Garnet is most loved for its deep red and is was used widely in vintage Victorian jewellery and with that style of jewellery being fashionable now, we have seen an upturn in people purchasing garnet jewellery.

Garnet is supposed to represent faith and generates a calming influence as well as give the wearer restful sleep.  All are very healthy benefits for wearing this birthstone of january!

Some more examples of garnet jewellery (garnet earrings and garnet pendants)…

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Well, the jewellery blog hasn’t been updated as much as I would have liked lately - with the Christmas rush it’s been all hands to the pump trying to make sure that the presents people were ordering were getting to them on time.  There’s going to be quite a few people who open their presents on Christmas morning and see new pieces of silver and gold jewellery.  I sure hope they like their gifts and that the work was worth while.

This year has certainly seen an increase in marcasite jewellery being bought.  We have always had a fair few sales of it but this year it seems more fashionable than ever which I’m happy to see.  No. 1 is marcasite earrings - they always go down well as gifts.  Next in popularity were marcasite pendants.  The most popular item by far in marcasite over Christmas is a marcasite locket shaped like a heart.  We had a little review of the locket if you’d like to have a look.

All in all, a very satisfactory Christmas trading period.  We’ve had some very encouraging comments made about our stock and our new supplier of gold jewellery has certainly been a good find - we shall be putting more gold earrings and gold pendants on the site as well as other types of gold jewellery such as necklaces and bracelets.

So, from us at Milton Gems, we’d like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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A pearl is created when an oyster gets a grain of sand inside it - the oyster tries to ease the irritant by covering it in layers of nacre.  Over time, the layers increase and the grain of sand turns into a pearl - a spherical, ball of nacre.  Freshwater pearls are created the same way but instead of the oyster naturally getting the sand inside it (which is purely chance) the sand is added by people - so it’s almost guaranteed to get a pearl in due course.

One of our favourite designers - Kit Heath - uses pearl a lot in their pieces to great effect.  We also like to have pieces where the differences in colour are highlighted - which they certainly are with our marcasite jewellery (example images can be seen below).

Have a look at our freshwater pearl jewellery here.  Another page of fresh water pearl jewellery is here.

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