Jewelry Tips
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Can you wear your 14 karat white gold jewelry in a chlorinated pool?
Should you wear your 14 karat white gold jewelry in a pool? No. Why can’t I wear my 14 karat white gold jewelry in a pool? Chlorine is corrosive to nickel, so it will eat holes and weaken your jewelry faster than if you didn’t, so don’t wear it in a pool. But what if…
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Can you lower the setting on your engagement ring?
Can you lower the setting on your engagement ring?
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How to boost the bottom line of your business
How about that bottom line?That one gets the shaft.It’s the line that tells us that we spent too much, or that we paid too much for that show with the splashy top line numbers. It’s the line that shows our time spent reconciling our receipts.
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Tool Talk! About bezel punches
How can you use bezel punches to make your work shine? Bezel punches were a revelatory tool when I first learned about them. It felt like a secret being unlocked. I had struggled to make small, round bezels for faceted stones look as smooth as the pros made them. Using the usual methods of bezel…
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Is there such a thing as hypoallergenic jewelry?
Can jewelry be hypoallergenic? Short answer – Nope. Longer answer – Also nope, but with more words. Which metals can cause an allergic reaction? All of them, but to different degrees. Some metals are the absolute worst at causing allergic reactions, others are hit or miss and you’ll probably be OK. All metals can cause…
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What is the difference between solid gold and gold fill?
Solid gold, gold fill, gold plate, gold vermeil, karat gold – what exactly do these terms mean? Edited 2/6/2023 And why use one over the other? What is Solid Gold? This means that a piece of jewelry is gold through and through. It can be an alloy – meaning 14 karat, 18 karat, etc. And…
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How to tell if your jewelry is gold by using an acid test kit
Don’t let mystery gold be a mystery foreverMaybe you inherited some jewelry from a family member, or you picked up a treasure at an antique mall, and you want to be sure that you got the gold you paid for. Get yourself an acid test and let’s go!
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Book Report – Consumed by Aja Barber
Time for another book report! This one has an affiliate link towards the bottom! Consumed by Aja Barber Examining our relationship to things My relationship with things has always been fraught. Waffling between thinking that I don’t have enough or that I have too much used to be my norm. Fear of missing out, the…
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How do you oxidize mixed metal jewelry?
Use liver of sulfur to oxidize your jewelry at home!Yes. Yes I have seen those videos showing how to oxidize silver with an egg, but considering how expensive eggs are at the moment (greetings from early 2023) and how I am generally opposed to wasting food, I’d like to recommend using a good professional tool…
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Diamond is April’s Birthstone – and diamonds are still hard to trace
This system for sourcing diamonds that we are currently working in is unfair.Sometimes in order to fix a problem, it helps to acknowledge that the problem exists in the first place.