Sam's e-Shopping Picks
Attention: All Online Shop Owners! There's a new shop feature service in town.

What is it?
An amazing service which provides reviews of online shops with no strings attached :)

Being an online shop owner myself, I totally understand the importance of shop features and advertising. Therefore, as of the 1st of March 2008, I have decided to establish Sam's e-Shopping Picks. I review other shops on my personal blog and by default, if you're reviewed by me your shop automatically earns itself a place on my personal blog sidebar!

Incentives for shop owners?

1. You can display your shop's review by Sam's e-Shopping Picks somewhere prominent on your shop
2. All featured shops will automatically earn themselves a neat spot on my personal blog's sidebar for their shop link/banner

All featured shops are also required to link back to this blog by displaying this adorable little icon on their shop.

How do I go about sending a request for a shop feature?

All you have to do is send me an email at eshoppingpicks@hotmail.com with the following details:

1. Your shop name
2. Shop URL
3. A brief summary of your shop (e.g. your products, when did you start your shop, why you think your shop is the best etc)

And I will get back to you asap. A confirmation email will be sent to you if your shop feature request is successful and you will be notified when I put a feature post of your shop up.

I decided to give myself a treat today, seeing as it is a Friday night after all and I pride myself for not having come to a mental breakdown from the past 3 weeks of school.

So, a new necklace is here! It is called 'Golden Girl', because it makes me feel happy and glowy inside thinking about something which could tentatively be a daily morale booster for people- and what better morale booster than jewellery? This necklace encourages us to stand up to the daily trials and tribulations in life and love the golden girl that lives within our hearts :)

More details under 'necklaces'. Have a good week ahead guys! I know I will... with all my upcoming tests X_X

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Making pearl jewelry is not complicated as it looks. With just some basic knowledge of stringing technique, you can make very gorgeous pearl jewelry. Here are some easy pearl jewelry making projects.

For making simple pearl necklace, you will require some freshwater potato pearls some glass or crystal beads, you can use any beads. For making choker length of necklace you will require around 50 to 55 potato pearls, 10 beads, some golden crimp beads. For beading purpose, you will require stretch cord. Tie knot at one end of the stretch cord and string beads in some definite pattern like one golden crimp bead, then one crystal bead again one golden crimp bead; followed by around 5-6 potato pearls. After beading all pearls and beads just knot the two ends. Tie the knot twice and then glue the knot with glue. Pretty and elegant pearl necklace is ready.

Just like pearl necklace, you can easily make matching pearl bracelet. Just take small piece of stretch cord. Slide all pearls and beads in same order just like pearl necklace. While making pearl bracelet, make sue that it easily slide from your wrist. You can even add some charms in this pearl necklace.

You can make some simple pearl earrings like pearl studs or pearl dangle earrings. Pearl stud earrings are most popular style of pearl earrings. For making pearl stud earrings, all you will require is two half drilled round pearls, you can even use pearls with one flat side. Earring cups and post are easily available in market. The cup post for pearl stud there is one small bar attached on the base of cup. You just have to put some glue on that bar and then just attach that pearl on bar. Your pearl stud earrings are ready. This way you can easily make simple pearl jewelry.

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Charming and mysterious elegance of freshwater pearls are attracting everyone. Pearl pendant is on the most popular type of pearl jewelry. A pendant is always been one of the essential piece of jewelry. A pearl pendant can define a personality trait or sometimes it can be a symbol of love, which remains close to the heart.

Freshwater pearls are available in many different shapes and sizes. The spherical pearl is more preferred for pendant. A pearl pendant can be as simple as round pearl stamped in silver or gold pendant. Pendant can have simple flower shaped base on which pearl is placed delicately.

Freshwater pearls are famous for their different shapes and colors. These pearls are available in many shapes like teardrop, oval, potato, stick and many more. These individual pearl can be pearl pendant, you just have to attach it to chain. Small seed pearls are often used to create very delicate designs. Flower shaped pendant with small seed pearls as petals is one pretty example of this.

Pearl pendants are often used as a religious jewelry. You can have single side-drilled cross pearl in sterling silver or gold chain or you can have cross made up of rice pearls. pearl pendants are often incorporated with diamonds or rhinestone. The combination of pearls and diamonds just adds sparkling effect to any outfit. Pendant made up of baroque pearls are also very popular these days.

Mother of pearl pendants also has its own charm. Mother of pearl is very soft, so many different shapes are easily crafted from that. These different shapes are very beautifully incorporated in some pendants. Some pendants has pearls still inside the their oyster shell, they are just taken out and then are framed inside some gold or sterling silver pendants. These pearl in oyster pendants are available in different shapes like strawberry, star, heart, round and many more.

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Pearl in oyster gift sets are specially designed for gift giving. These pearl in oyster gift sets has pearl in oyster. The pearl inside the oyster can be of different color. Each color of pearl is assigned to different wish. A marvelous richly colored pearl inside an oyster shell really has a fascinating appeal.

The interpretations of different colors of pearls are as follows; white pearl for wisdom, cream pearl for success, peach pearl for health, purple pearl for wealth and black pearl for love. If the pearl inside the oyster carry a message of love then this pearl in oyster gift set is called as Lover pearl gift sets.

This Pearl in oyster gift set has an oyster containing a pearl. The oyster is packed in special tin filled with special liquid solution. The thing that appeals most about this gift is the element of surprise. These Love pearl cans contains real pearls, which are forming inside an oyster shell for last 3-4 pearls. The pearl inside the oyster can measure anywhere around 5-7mm.

There are many different types of pearl in oyster gift sets. It can be Love pearl in oyster gift set; this set has sterling silver necklace, silver cage and the most important element real “Love pearl” in an oyster. Other type of this oyster gift set is wishing pearl gift sets, such wish pearl gifts sets also has silver necklace and cage, color of pearl inside the shell can be anything. If you don’t want sterling silver chain and cage, then you can buy love pearl in oyster can or wish pearl in oyster can. These can just contains single oyster shell with pearls. Apart from these pearl in oyster gift set, you can even get live oyster with a real pearl in an oyster.

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This beautiful multi-strand necklace can be perfect adornment for some semi-formal occasion. This piece of jewelry has elegance and class of those beautiful white, grey and black freshwater pearls with a modern twist.

For making this multi-strand necklace you will require; beading monofilament or thread, beading needle, scissors, clear craft glue, some white, grey and black pearls, a necklace clasp of your choice. If you like, you can even add some mother of pearl pendant or some other pearl pendant in the necklace. If you are adding pendant, make sure that it does not take away beauty of these beautiful freshwater pearls.

Determine the length of necklace first. Princess length is the most common length for pearl necklace. After determining the length of the necklace, cut the beading filament or cord four times that length. To begin with beading, attach one side of the clasp to one end of the cord. With craft glue, secure the clasps on cord.

You can have various patterns with these three colored pearls. You can either have three strands of pearls with each having different colored pearls or some variation on every cord.

If you want variation on each cord then, thread out about fifteen white pearls first. After that, fifteen grey pearls and black pearl at the end. While beading second cord, first slide grey pearls, then black pearl and white pearls at the end. And on third cord black pearl first followed by grey pearls and white pearls at the end.

You can make two sets of these three cords and incorporate Mother of pearl pendant on between them. If you don’t want pearl pendant then you can just joint other part of clasps to other end of these three cords. You can try many such variations with pearls available. With just little creativity and good color combination, you can make elegant yet modern necklace for yourself.

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Pearls are widely used for creating necklaces, rings, bracelets and for creating various sets. Just like pearls, mother of pearl jewelry is also becoming very popular these days. Mother of pearl jewelry gives very delightful appearance. Most people associate Mother of pearl with the white lustrous pieces of jewelry, however mother of pearl is also found in absolutely gorgeous shimmering pastel shades.

Mother of pearl is very soft, so it can be crafted in almost any shape. In all available mother of pearl jewelry, pendant is most popular piece of jewelry. Mother of pearl pendant are available in different interesting shapes. The simplest yet elegant design of pendant is teardrop shape Mother of pearl pendant set in sterling silver setting. Mother of pearl shell silver pendant has unique design as it has a pearl inside of their oyster shell. This pendant is framed in a sterling pendant.

As said before mother of pearl can be crafted in any shape. Mother of pearl beads are available in almost any shape. Many different necklaces can be crafted using all these different beads. The simplest design of these mother of pearl bead necklace is simple round beads with big round beads in middle with decreasing size towards the clasps.

Heart shaped Mother of pearl necklace also look very cute. It is perfect gift for any occasion or just a way to express your love to special someone. Mother of pearl is often dyed in many beautiful pastel shades. Since it has it’s own lustrous shine, when mother of pearl is dyed it gives the shimmering effect.

Just like pearls, mother of pearl require special care. Never use harsh detergent to clean this pretty jewelry. You can use solvents that are approved for pearl to clean mother of pearl jewelry.

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