The Sneaky Snake

What trends are you ladies following this season?

2013 is the year of the snake, in the lunar astrological calendar. 

If your astrological birth year is; 1917, 1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013, then your Chinese astrological symbol is the Sneaky Snake. 

It's a feminine sign, as with luxury and style. Who does not like that, but for people born in the year of the snake, they especially appreciate beauty and enjoy fashion.

Today snake jewelry is as fashionable as ever. Zoe Saldana wore a snake ring to the Oscars, Rihanna and Alicia Key's were rocking snake style at the Grammy's. 2013 Best Actress winner Julianne Moore wore a snake bracelet to the Golden Globes.

I draw inspiration from ancient and modern jewelry trends to create my own unique pieces. In celebration of the year of the snake here are my fabulous fashionable serpent ring. 

Keep your jewelry free of tarnish to make it look its best!

I know most of us just throw our jewelry into piles. 

Even if they are in a jewelry box, jewelry pieces that are all piled together, make it very difficult to find and can also damage your fragile pieces.
Learning more about your jewelry will help you in preserving it for a long time. Be cautious of the way you store your precious pieces.

Here is a picture of the display box I made,
to showcase my Modern Gems Collections

My Advise!

You will want to avoid jewelry getting tangled, which can damage them. Try to find some really cute hooks to hang them on. If you click on this link to my Pintrest page and check my board titled " Craft Show/Display/Branding Ideas" http://pinterest.com/moderngems
There I have some great DIY jewelry display you can recreate, very cute, very affordable and very easy to do.

Jewelry holds on to memories, important occasions, joyful memories of an event in our lives. Jewelry holds a special relationship between the owner and the giver.
Be cautious of the way you store your precious jewelry pieces.

My Advise!

Make sure to store your jewelry away from humidity and air. Keep your jewelry in a velvet drawstring bag or even plastic zip lock bag, is O.K.  A jewelry box is the best, because it is made specially for your jewelry.

It is best to use holders, compartments, and hook for keeping pieces separate. Air and Humidity a women's worst enemy! It can frizz our hair and it can tarnish the metals in all our jewelry.

To see more of my creation visit Modern Gems on Facebook,
Twitter, Instagram, Pintrest and at my Etsy shop as well.

  Keep your jewelry free of tarnish to make it look its best! 

My Advise!

Precious metals can be easily polished with a polishing cloths, you can keep anti-tarnish strips, were ever you store your jewelry. 

Non-precious metal are coated with a finish. After awhile and with some time these finishes can wear and can be very easily damaged. 

When that happens the piece will never go back to their previous state. 

Try not to wear your jewelry in water. Water causes some metals to patina (change color) and tarnish heavily. 

To contact me just email, moderngemsartisanjewelry@gmail.com

 To invest in jewelry is to invest in your memories. 

Take care of those memories because they are truly priceless. Every piece of jewelry is filled with emotion, it could be the promise of a lifetime of happiness ahead, or the celebration of a child's birth. Whatever occasion each time you look at your jewelry it will invoke that memory.