Mother of pearl (MOP) is a valued substance that forms the lining of shells in some offreshwater and seawater mollusks. MOP is categorized by the opalescent substance of the shell. Shells – MOP is created by secretion of mollusks and composed of an alternative layer of calcium carbonate and conchiolin.  With these composition, it will give a different reflect of colors to the light. It can create a complete rainbow color on light reflection depend ontype of creature and their living environment. This Shells-MOP is used for various decorative purposes, including human fashion jewelry. Jewelry made by this Shells – MOP is always elegant piece according to its light reflection. The piece can always give a simple and unfading look with unique character. One good thing about this MOP jewelry is about its lifetime, the piece will stay for a lifetime. It will be able to pass from generation to the next without any problem.

There are many types of shells that will give a different look for the Shells – MOP as follow.

1. White mother of pearl: this type is obtainable from the pearl bearing oyster. It will perform a high light reflective quality compare with other types.

2. Iridescent mother of pearl: this type will be present in the form of pinks and greens format.

3. Chip mother of pearl: this type is coming with multicolored types, easy to differentiate from the others.

4. Stone mother of pearl: this type is coming in white with lesser reflective light qualities.

5. Mat mother of pearl: this type is coming with a dull grey color. The light reflective quality is also lower than the other type.

If you classified the Shells – MOP based on the water source, yes, it will be classified into two types

1. Fresh water mother of pearl: found in freshwater source like rivers. The color for this type is usually in yellow and white.

2. Sea/salt water mother of pearl: they are coming inrainbow, black or white colors with a bigger size compare with the fresh water one.

This Shells – MOP is able to use for jewelry maker for many pieces. It has been recorded since the ancient time for the use as human decoration. It was also used for a sign of dignity. For today, you can see lots of product based on this MOP material. Go with any piece you like, it will bring you an elegant look for sure.

To start any DIY thing, you need a good start point. No matter you want to make anything; jewelry, dress or painting, you need to think about a proper workstation and then, get it done before start your work. A proper workstation will let you use your creativity and imagination of the highest in productivity. With a proper place for working, you will be attracted by the place and want to start to use your creativity for a great work. You need the quality lighting conditions, especially if you wear eyeglassesor you haveproblem with eyes sore after spent sometimes looking at something. You need to check for the best lighting condition to release all these stress from your eyes. Keep in mind that you have to use your eyes for all the process, therefore, go with the high light quality in your workstation area. Attention in every detail about the workstation, it will save your time and help you to work in this area for a longer time.

With the glass bead work, you do need to prepare the area for your workstation. Then, you should have placed all glass beads into its boxes. You should classify each glass bead according to its character. Then, place in each box separately. By this way, you will be able to get each style whenever you want and also, it will let you know when that particular style was running out. There are many styles of handmade glass beads available in the market for you to buy and get some in your bead collections. You can go with any styles, designs and colors that you like and able to use them in your own style jewelry pieces. Look for the high quality glass beads as you need the right material to start your work.

Then, check for the other materials you need like beading wire or beading thread of you don’t have this one before. The wire or thread is need to string you glass beads together, for a perfect jewelry piece. Never go with the sewing thread or dental floss unless you want just to practice your skill in threading the beads through the thread. Beading needle is another thing you need in your workstation, to string the beads together with the thread or wire. Make sure that you already have some spare needles in your stations. Only one needle can be lost or misplaced at anytime, and working without the needle is not the right thing to do.

Now, you are ready with everything. Let’s start and enjoy your activity.

Wood jewelry? Some of your friends might be surprise to see you with the wood jewelry on your body. Well, there are quite a few reasons for you to explain to your friends about wood jewelry. Here are some of them.

First reason for wood jewelry is because you are looking for the wood items or anything that made by wood. The wood jewelries can bring you a unique look for your unique appearance. The feeling of using wood items is about natural, earthy and also tribal. You can easily make your fashion statement in your way with all these wood jewelries, not just only wood earrings. The use of wood earrings would be the best point to start to say about your fashion interest to the world. If you are happy with the look, there should be nothing wrong with other wood jewelry you are looking for as the next items.

Second reason for wood jewelry is about your sensitive to metal. If you are allergic to metals like nickel, copper or other metals, you have to be quite carefully check with all the metal jewelry available in the market. Although it was said the piece was made of pure silver or pure gold, but who know.  You can come across the metal allergy problem in the easy way, just go with the non-metal jewelry instead. 100% of wood earring will contain all the wood products which you can be happy to put the earrings on. Don’t worry about the styles. Now there are lots of interesting design for wood earrings and other wood jewelries available in the market. If you are new in this wood jewelry world, try to look around firstand you will surprise to see the beauty and unique in design for all of wooden jewelry in the market today.

Last reason for wood jewelry is about organic matter. Wood is 100% organic itemsand if you are looking for the organic items, wood jewelry will be your best choice to go. Many people are now interested in living in the world with the green concept. Wood jewelry will be the answer for the beauty for the green concept.  If you are looking for the way to use less metal and plastic in your life, you can start from using wood jewelry instead of other jewelry materials.

All the above reasons might attract many people around you forstart using wood jewelry. It’s just your choice to go or not to go with the wood jewelry.

What are your criteria for your silver jewelry like silver necklace or ring? Are you looking at the silver quality, design or just the pattern? Actually, there are many points you need to focus and analyze all the information for a piece of silver jewelry.

The first thing to check is about the silver property. The pure silver is not really popular for jewelry maker anyway. They are preferred to work with the silver alloy called sterling silver which normally contains 92.5% of silver with 7.5% of copper. The ratio is important for sterling silver jewelry properties. With less silver percentage (less than 92.5%), it refer to less silver inside the jewelry body.  You need to check for the percentage number of silver and other metal for the authentic 925 sterling silver jewelry. Otherwise, you will not get the right sterling silver jewelry for your pieces.

With this percentage, it is considered as high quality sterling silver jewelry as you can be sure for its quality.  Pay attention at this point beforestart to look at the design of the pieces. Although the design is right for you, but without this guarantee, I would recommended not to go with it unless you are really want that design and willing to go with the under standard sterling silver jewelry. The high quality sterling silver can handle in the easy way, forsmooth finish and not have blemished in any kind.

Then, check for the design and pattern for that particular piece. For example, if you are looking for a silver necklace, check for the length of that necklace. Too long or too short hasdirect effect to its weight and how its look on your body.

Last, check for all small details inside the jewelry piece; clasp, connection point as it can make a problem later on if you didn’t pay attention since the beginning. If there are pendants come together with the jewelry piece, check those pendants as well.

The design for sterling silver jewelry might be the first thing that attract your interest, but never make your decision just because of the design. You need to check for more details before make your decision every time. Keep these points in your mind, for your best jewelry pieces to go for.