Congratulations! You’re getting married… bet you didn’t imagine how very much planning and arranging it takes to create a beautiful wedding. Finding a venue, choosing a caterer and a DJ or band, deciding how to decorate the tables, selecting favours for the guests, and of course, picking out a dress and your own gold and silver jewellery.
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Amongst the handmade silver bracelets for women that never go out of fashion, one favourite is the charm bracelet. This versatile handmade silver bracelet is beloved by women of all ages, and is suited to every wrist. In fact, some women receive a handmade silver bracelet strung with a charm or two as a milestone gift – such as first communion, bat mitzvah, or sweet sixteen birthday – and keep it all their lives, adding charms to it as they grow and as events crowd their lives. Usually, the charm bracelet is made of hand-crafted silver links, to which handmade silver charms are attached as appropriate.
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Looking for a way to refresh your wardrobe without adding stress to your credit card? Is it one of those months where all your friends seem to be having a birthday? Is it holiday time? There’s a handmade silver jewellery solution to all of these thorny problems – one that’s also a nifty way to have fun: the handmade silver jewellery swap.
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Say “handmade silver rings”, and you’re likely to conjure lovely but staid circlets of Sterling silver emblazoned with a monogram, affixed with a gemstone, or twined in a fetching design. Yet there is a vast world of unusual rings out there, which can be used to express or reflect things not normally associated with handmade silver rings. Here are just a few examples:
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Increasingly, women are celebrating motherhood – and grandmotherhood – with a handmade silver necklace strung with “evidence” that they are the happy bearers of offspring. An offshoot of the so-called “push present” – a gift given to a woman after she has given birth – these handmade silver necklaces are unique in being both beautiful and meaningful. A woman can show her pride in her motherhood with these handmade silver necklaces, regardless of whether or not she wears a wedding ring. Here are some of the handmade silver necklaces you can now find for the mother or grandmother you revere.
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In nature, it is the male of the species who is most often the flamboyant one. To illustrate: it is the peacock, and not the peahen, whose ravishing feathers are flared in courtship, and the male lion whose head is surrounded by a corona of mane. Any woman who has ever been wooed knows that a man who wants to gain her attention will “show off” – sometimes by bragging, sometimes by preening, and sometimes, by buying her silver jewellery!
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American Indians, sometimes called “Native Americans”, are known to have inhabited the continent now occupied by the United States since at least 8000 BCE. Their history on this land is both stirring and troubling, especially subsequent to the arrival of European settlers in the 17th century.
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