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Acorn jewellery can be a beautiful gift for many reasons. Acorns are symbolic, beautiful, and classic enough to become a new family heirloom.

Whether you’re selecting a gift for yourself or for someone you love, you’ll want to know that your selection is the best available. After deciding your budget, it’s time to begin your search.

Here are a few tips for selecting a quality piece when you’re buying jewellery.

Why Acorns?

Acorns possess beautiful symbolism. Perhaps this is because each small acorn has the potential to become a beautiful oak tree.

Celebrate the little moments that mean so much or the beginning of a new journey with beautiful acorn jewellery. It’s sure to be the perfect gift or a beautiful addition to your collection.

Knowing where to buy, what to look for, and how to determine each piece’s value will help you select a beautiful piece likely to become a family heirloom.

1. Know Where to Buy Jewellery

There are many options to examine when buying jewellery. If you are wondering where to buy jewellery, the internet has become the preeminent marketplace for selecting a piece.

This is because many of the best places to buy jewellery sell their ware online and include detailed descriptions often unavailable in a store. You’ll often be able to see the piece’s weight, composition, and care instructions listed on the website.

Online shopping gives you all the benefits you’d receive in a traditional shopping experience along with many other attributes unavailable to those perusing a traditional brick and mortar store.

Comparison shopping is one of the strongest benefits when shopping online. Comparing your favourite items against one another no longer means spending all day driving about.

Once you’ve selected a favourite retailer, you can begin to compare their offerings. We’re confident that you’ll find the perfect piece!

2. Looking at Details of Your Piece

If you’re selecting a piece that is likely to become an heirloom, you will want to spend the time examining the details that make each piece unique.

This may include hand-crafted details, high-quality metals, and styles unique to the artisan responsible for crafting your piece.

Rose gold is a great example of an exciting variation on tradition. Instead of traditional white gold, yellow gold, or sterling silver options, rose gold brings a new look to traditional pieces.

Jewellery styles are another variation to consider. Pieces may be dainty and refined or contain vintage or rustic elements. If your item is a gift, be sure to consider the personal style of the recipient.

3. Buying Jewellery: Determining the Value of Your Selection

Best buy jewellery means not always selecting the cheapest piece, but determining if the piece is a high-quality product that will maintain it’s value. Selecting a piece that is timeless is an important component of jewellery selection.

If you’re selecting a piece for yourself, selecting a less expensive option can be more expensive in the long run. Jewellery that tarnishes or breaks will need replacement or become another unworn piece in your jewellery box.

Now that you know where to go when buying jewellery and how to select your best option, we recommend viewing our beautiful collection of acorn bracelets, pendants, and earrings. We hope you find a timeless piece to celebrate someone you love or your own new beginnings.

“A Cynophilist” – Someone who just loves pooches!

If you love dogs and want to buy a piece of canine-inspired jewellery, you’ve come to the right place.

But wait a minute, is silver or gold jewellery right for your skin tone? Keep reading to find out.

Skin Tone Test

There are 5 simple tests you can do to determine your skin tone. Do one test at a time in natural light. Grab a pen and paper and record your results into two columns – cool and warm.

Remember that skin tone isn’t dependent on your skin colour. It’s possible to have light skin and a warm skin tone, or darker skin with a cool skin tone. So take the tests with an open mind, and you’re sure to find whether gold or silver jewellery is matching your skin tone.

Are you ready to go? Let the tests begin!

1. Green or Blue?

Check the veins on your inner wrist. If they are a blueish hue it means your skin is cool toned. If they’re more of a green colour, you are warm toned.

2. Stark White

Take a piece of white fabric. Wrap it around your face. The white colour of the material will reflect your skin tone. If your skin looks yellowish, you have warm undertones. If it looks blueish, you have cool skin tones.

3. Tanning Time

Think back to the times you’ve been exposed to the sun. Do you tan or burn?

If your skin tans easily, you most likely have warm undertones. If you burn quickly or find it difficult to get a tan, you are probably cool toned.

4. It’s in the DNA

You don’t need to undergo a medical genetic test for this one! Just take a good look at yourself in the mirror.

Although there are exceptions, the general rule is that people who have warm toned skin have brown, green or hazel eyes with brown, black or red hair. Whereas blue or grey eyes with blonde, brown or black hair show that you have cool undertones to your skin.

5. Sparkle Test

Do a “sparkle test” with jewellery or even gold and silver makeup. Grab a silver piece and gold piece of jewellery, wear one, then wear the other. Which one honestly suits you best? If you can’t figure it out, ask a good friend to give their honest opinion.

If gold gives you a summer glow, then your skin is warm-toned, if silver is more flattering, then your skin is cool toned.

Negative Results

If you’ve completed all the tests above and you find that your results are all over the place, your skin is probably neutral.

Don’t fret…it’s a win-win situation. You will look good in both gold and silver jewellery!

Silver vs. Gold Jewellery

After you’ve determined whether your skin tone is warm or cool you will be able to find a metal colour that will flatter your skin tone.

For cooler skin tones, light or white metals look really good. For example, white gold, platinum or silver. People with warmer tones look great with yellow or rose gold or even copper and brass jewellery.

Silver or Gold Jewellery – Does it Matter?

So, which one is right for you? Silver or gold jewellery?

Honestly, when it comes to fashion, rules are made to be broken. So, if you have cool skin undertones but fall in love with a rose gold charm, just go for it! Or if you’re skin has warm tones but you found a cute silver pendant, forget the rules!

Check out our range of beautiful, one of a kind jewellery pieces. You’re sure to find something that will match your personality and unique style!

Do you want to give your friend or loved one a great jewellery gift, but you’re not sure what kind to purchase? If they already have an extensive jewellery collection, and you are searching for something unique and stylish, there is an obvious solution!

Consider feathers!

Feathers are a great option for the modern person who is going for a spunky, BOHO style. If your friend or loved one fits that description, then this article is for you.

Here are few of the reasons why feather jewellery makes a great gift!

Feathers Are In Style

It can be hard to keep up with the latest fashion trends. But when it comes to feathers, you don’t have to worry, they are very in right now.

Recent fashion shows have seen a resurgence of feathers. These feathers may be on elegant gowns and evening wear, but this indicates a renewed love for feathers in fashion.

This, paired with the rise in popularity of the BOHO chic style, shows us that feather jewellery will be popular and fashionable for quite some time.

Jewellery Can Be Worn All The Time

Jewellery is one of the best gifts you can give another person because they can actually use it every day. A nice trinket might be sentimental, but jewellery can be worn around. The recipient can use their jewellery to express themselves to the world.

It might seem silly, but reusability is important in a gift. People want to be able to enjoy things again and again, and jewellery is a great gift that achieves this goal.

Feather Jewellery Is A Gift For Everyone

A great thing about jewellery is that it can be given to and worn by people of all ages and body types.

You won’t ever have to worry if a piece won’t compliment their figure or if it’s too old/young for a particular person. If your recipient loves feathers, then you don’t have to be scared of anything. The only thing you have to worry about is getting them a gift they’ll love.

People of all shapes and sizes can have the personality for feathers. If it suits their style, then go for it!

Celebrating Your Loved One’s Personality

Feather jewellery has that spunky BOHO chic flavour takes someone with a lot of personality to pull off. Giving that someone a feathered gift will show them just how much you love and appreciate that personality.

You love your friend or loved one’s style and you want to celebrate it with them, what better way than to add to their collection of great jewellery than with a feather piece? They can wear it out and express that style and spirit that you appreciate so much.

This gift will also make your recipient feel seen, known, and appreciated. They will feel the love that you have for their style and personality.

Tell Us Your Feather Jewellery Stories!

Have you recently given or received a lovely piece of feathered jewellery? We want to hear about it! Contact us and let us know your story.

And check out all the great feather pieces we have in stock!

 

Its almost time for this years Burghley Horse Trials held in the grounds of beautiful Burghley Park, Stamford.

We will be in our usual spot which is in the Country Living makers marquee by the Land Rover Arch in front of the water jumps.

Hope to see lots of you there!