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Our friend Jill Brahms has written so many Silver Jewelry on her blog posts for the CMA awards, it gave me an idea for us to do an annual Designer Jewelry Awards.  Anyone up for it, Jill, Dan, my Jill or any one else.  I really think, we should highlight the top designer jewelry Awards, we will do best designer Silver Jewelry.   Best Silver Cross Jewelry, best authentic jewelry designs, best diamond rings, best diamond jewelry display.  Best Jewelry shows, best Jewelry show box?  Well, we already have that, and for now I will leave the Jewelry blogging to Jill Brahms the famous, soon to be super famous designer silver jewelry maker!  Enjoy her Jewelry blog from LoveRelic.com.

This Week in Designer Silver Jewelry - Out and About

Author: Loverelic  11 27th, 2007

 

With no awards show in sight, we had to really dig to find the scoop on the significant silver jewelry sightings out and about.

Singer Ricky Martin performed this Thanksgiving week with Italian singer Eros Ramazzotti

Ricky is wearing at least two, if not three multi-strand bracelets. One is a black silk or leather chord with some small silver amulet of some kind. We are guessing the black piece is probably a necklace that he has wrapped around his wrist several times. In addition, he also is donning a - No surprise here - a silver cross charm dangling from a brown leather chord. We know Ricky is fond of the silver cross jewelry. Whether these are necklaces wrapped or bracelets, we like the mismatched messy casual look of all of these strands all over the place.

Singer Delta Goodrem performed recently live at Federation Square in Australia armed with some serious wristwear.

Here, Delta is wearing three very heavy substantial silver bracelets. One is a silver bangle. One is a braided silver cuff bracelet, and the other looks like a hinged silver cuff. We love it. Pile on those cuffs, Delta!

Natasha Bedingfield celebrated her birthday at the Hard Rock Cafe in London this week. She has on who black rubber and silver bangle bracelets, as well as a chunky silver cuff. Not shown in this photo - her other wrist was also wearing a silver link bracelet.

And finally, this week in silver jewelry wrapped up with Jo Whiley at the premier of Mr Magorium’s Wonder Emporium

Jo is wearing a lovely silver leaf necklace. Or is it a feather?

 

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Elsa Peretti earrings from Tiffany & Co.

Our friend Dan Keto wrote a two part series on the Designer Silver Jewelry business. I have combined them, and we are including our thoughts on the cross silver jewelry rings and silver cross necklaces that are coming out soon by LoveRelic.com. So enjoy folks and come discuss Desinger Silver Jewelry issues on this blog as often as you can.

The Designer Jewelry (Silver) Business Pt. 1

Dale Chihuly glass.  Nature forms in nature.

Author: dan 10 24th, 2007

The Designer Silver Jewelry industry is a fascinating case study in business. Jewelry has to be one of the oldest businesses in the world. I would bet that the very first woman adorned herself in some form of jewelry.

Although many facets of the business have changed with technology, most of the product fundamentals have remained the same for thousands of years. Jewelry is a very emotional product. Both women and men wear jewelry to attract attention to themselves, make themselves feel good, or to have a symbol of something on them that provides deeper meaning.

This series of articles will examine the fascinating and wonderful business of designer jewelry, specifically silver, and look at the various components of a business that are required to be successful. The articles will explore the following:

1. Design
2. Manufacturing
3. Marketing
4. Sales Channels
5. Branding
6. Financing

The Designer Jewelry (Silver) Business Pt. 2

Author: dan 11 4th, 2007

Market Overview

The U.S. retail jewelry industry is comprised of five main segments: bridal jewelry (30%), fashion jewelry (22%), watches (18%), precious stones (15%) and precious metals (15%). Bridal jewelry is less influenced by economic conditions than fashion jewelry, which is considered a luxury good. Precious metals include gold, silver, platinum and palladium.

The retail jewelry industry is highly fragmented, with the top ten jewelry chains comprising less than 25 percent of the market. No retailer claims more than 6 percent market share. Chains are prevalent in the industry, though independent retailers are firmly rooted throughout. Annual jewelry store sales run about $27 billion; wholesalers and manufacturers account for an additional $27 billion in sales.

There are nearly 50,000 stores engaged in jewelry stores retail , and the industry employs approximately 200,000 individuals. Wal-Mart is the largest retailer in the country. Next is Zales, the biggest specialty jeweler with over 2,000 stores and kiosks. U.S. retailers account for 15 percent of worldwide sales in the industry.

The demand for jewelry is largely determined by the disposable income of consumers. The increasing amount of affluent individuals, working women, double-income households and fashion-conscious men has kept jewelry sales strong through 2005. When raw material prices fall, jewelry becomes more affordable, and consumer demand rises. Renewed confidence in the economy has also played a significant role.

Over the past decade, online jewelry sales have risen steadily. This development has forced retail merchants to adapt and many have moved some component of their operations online. Increasing numbers of manufacturers and wholesalers are also conducting business online. Because jewelry is seldom branded, product differentiation is a key point of competition among retailers. Good designers are valued.

Jewelry sales are highest during the Christmas season and during the weeks proceeding Valentine’s Day. Mother’s Day sees a spike in sales as well.

Jewelry is expensive and difficult for consumers to evaluate. It is seldom branded and varies widely in design and quality. Purchases require professional expertise. Because of this, consumers tend to buy jewelry from merchants they perceive to be trustworthy. Large retailers such as Wal-Mart and Tiffany benefit from this industry peculiarity; local jewelers with community roots and good reputations benefit as well. Retailers generally purchase finished jewelry from manufacturers and wholesalers. In smaller retail stores, jewelers may be involved in all aspects of the work. Retailers may hold proprietary agreements with designers, who sell their designs exclusively through the company. Some retailers hold agreements with manufacturers to sell merchandise on consignment.

As mentioned before this blog is sponsored by LoveRelic.com a Designer Silver Jewelry company here in Seattle WA. Our goal is to create a line of the most elegant organic silver jewelry with the silver cross rings as the first product, than silver cross necklaces. Than a promise to Jesus line with cross emblems, along with an Om Jewelry collection and a Celtic jewelry collection. So stay tuned folks this is going to be an exciting source for Jewelry

All electric heaters are not the same, recently we learned about infrared heaters.  Well, by know you have already figured that out.  Especially as we are promoting better than Edenpure heaters by ComfortZone Heaters on this blog, along with Designer Silver Jewelry by Jill Brahms.  In case you did not, don’t worry you will already.  Therefore, we are talking better than Edenpure Heaters once again.  But before we talk above edenpure heater brand, which we want to honor and thank.  Our goal is to sell more infrared heaters, so we have to show that ComfortZone quartz portable infrared heaters are better, with respect to the Edenpure heaters brand.  So why do we think we are better?   There are a few posts dedicated to that subject.  And you can probably see our edenpure and comfortzone heater reviews blog on ebay blogs by going there at http://blogs.ebay.com/edenpure-reviews

So on this blog we are talking about Comfortzone quartz infrared heaters being much better than a typical electric heater.  To truly understand that you have to understand how Infrared Heater technology works.  We have done enough posts on that, but here is the excerpt from Wikipedia.org the world larges community based dictionary.  Again this may sound more scientific, but do read.  Normal space electric heaters, just heat up coils of metal that radiate heat.  While infrared heaters are electric heaters, they are 50% or so more energy efficient.  What makes them more energy efficient is that the Infrared heater radiates heat based on Infrared waves which DO NOT heat the air, the waves attach themselves to objects such as floors, furniture, walls, ceilings etc.  This makes the range much longer and efficient instead of worrying about air lost or ventilation.  The other thing that Infrared heaters do is that they heat up a Quartz light bulb with cermic coils so that they heat up a lot faster and cool faster, which makes them also more energy efficient.

So why use a traditional electric space heaters when you can Save energy and heat the whole room or house with Infrared heaters.  Also, we don’t have any proof, but we hear that infrared heat is more therapeutic because it does not heat the air, NOT needing a humidifier in the winter, saving you more money:-).

New York City Marathon Winners Don their Lucky Jewelry - Necklaces

Author: Loverelic.com’s Jill Brahms  11 8th, 2007, please visit their site to purchase some awesome Designer Silver Jewelry.  Some of you know that my wife’s name is Jill too, and she has been passing around Jill Brahm’s Silver Jewelry in Queen Anne, and making some of the stylish ladies of Queen Anne happy.  Well, the Silver Jewelry made a trip to Mercer Island this weekend at a Gourmet club.  This time without my wife Jill, you see the women asked for Jill Brahms silver jewelry as they liked the designs better than Silpada.com.  Silpada makes it’s money on Silver Jewelry parties, our Jills hope to sell enough from the Internet that their designs sell.  Parties are fun to go to, but we don’t like to go there to buy anything do we ladies:-)

 

We couldn’t help but notice that two out of the three winners in the top three spots of the NYC marathon wore their lucky necklaces to the competition.

First place finisher Paula Radcliffe (C) of Britian wears a black ring necklace, second place finisher Gete Wami (R) of Ethiopia sports a gold cross on a black leather chord, and Jelena Prokopcuka of Latvia wears simple stud earrings after the New York City Marathon.

Silver Jewelry, as well as gold, is often worn by athletes to give them good luck.

CMA Awards Rocking the Silver Jewelry Trend

November 14th, 2007 at 03:44 pm by Admin, hey I got this from our friend Jill Brahms the famous Designer of Silver Jewelry

from LoveRelic.com our friends at Designer Silver Jewelry:

CMA Awards Rocking the Silver Jewelry Trend

Author: Loverelic 11 13th, 2007

My oh my, we are flabergasted by the amount of amazing silver jewelry at the Country Music Awards this year. Silver Cross Necklaces and Pendants were expecially popular. Nearly every man at the event was donning some sort of silver necklace this year. Our favorite pics are below….

Lee Brice, unafraid to throw on multiple items of neckwear, including a silver designer cross necklace

“She Ain’t Right“, but Lee sure is. Here Lee is wearing one silver cross pendant on a silver wheat style pendant. Another Silver cross pendant on a silver bead chain. And to top it off, he has some super cool silver swirl necklace on a black leather chord. What is that, a shell or a tiny abstract sculpture? We’ll find out and get back to you. We love it. Work it, Lee!

Cowboy hats and dogtags, could we get any more American? Brad Paisley was donning an enormous silver dog tag, which appears to feature a giant silver cross on it. Not sure we like the skinny chain with such a heavy pendant. What do you think? (photo:Wire Image)

(photo: Getty Images)

American Idol’s Bucky Covington has at least two,if not three silver necklaces here. The one on top features an incredibly cool silver circle chain, with two silver rings dangling. Nice.

This backstage photo reveals that in fact, Bucky is wearing another silver necklace. Thin chain and huge silver pendant.

Bucky’s Friend, the always heavily accessorized Trent Tomlinson, also had on loads of jewelry at the CMAs.

(photo: Getty Images)

Trent is donning a very 3-D puffy heart on a chunky silver cable chain. In additionk, he is wearing two chunky silver rings and a thick silver ID bracelet. Somehow he is making all of this work with a military/baseball cap. We are perplexed but we like.

More to come on the CMA’s….

Posted by Admin in Silver Jewelry