This Guide will help you make an informed decision before purchasing, or selling fine jewellery on eBay - it contains information on UK hallmarking law and useful tips to make your buying safe and enjoyable....
How To Use Calottes (Clamshells/Necklace Ends) In Your Jewellery Making Necklace Ends, also known as calottes or clamshells, are a great way to finish the ends of your jewellery creations. They give a much...
About this Guide:I have written this guide to help you when choosing the correct and most useful Brother gadget or accessory to fit your Brother Knitting Machine. I have not listed all the gadgets but as time...
There are lots of things to take into consideration when you start off with jewellery making as a hobby, the first will probably be the cost of getting a good stock of beads and findings together! There is no...
What is a Crimp for? If you want to retain Beads in a certain position on your cord(wire or Supplemax clear Nylon) then you will need a crimp. If you wish to creat a loop in the cord and fix the end, you will...
by Hong(Lisa) of 8Season Firstly, I want to say that all my sterling silver items are real 925 sterling silver,that is, composition of 92.5% pure silver and the remaining 7.5% alloy; Usually the alloy will be...
This guide does what it says on the tin, it's a GUIDE and is not set in stone, if you have different ideas then please pass them on! Cross stitch embroidery is really very simple . It is a means of...
Apoligies of the poor english , I am a Scottish Fifer and write how I would speak. There is only British Silver which when hallmarked is really silver, many people find thereselves very disappointed when I...
Fed up with paying loads for jewellery? Why not have a go at making your own from loose gemstones? You don't necessarily need any special tools (depending on the type of setting) and it's so easy. If I can do...
Are you looking for a specific size, colour and shape of cake stand for your wedding cake? Wedding cake stands have proved to be one of eBay's "boom" areas, expanding enormously over the past year, but finding...