Tuesday, 6 September 2011

Cheap, Homemade Silver Cleaner



In order to keep our precious silver jewelry good as new all the time, one must clean it and polish it as often as needed. However, to do this, you have to buy first silver polisher as well as cloth polisher, which can rather be very costly. Also, some of the known silver polisher contains hard chemicals that can cause poisoning when ingested accidentally.

Well, if you want to save a lot of money from buying not so expensive silver jewelry cleaner, then you have an option to just use homemade silver cleaners. By just using the things that are usually being found in your home, you will easily maintain all your silver necklaces and silver rings as good as new.

Vinegar as a Silver cleaner

Vinegar is one of the most common thing uses to clean silver jewelries for it can be easily found at homes. For sure there is no kitchen that doesn’t have vinegars in it. Well, using vinegar in cleaning silver jewelries is very simple. By just mixing two cups of vinegar, two teaspoons of salt, and ½ cup of flour and gently making it into a paste, you can now have your own homemade silver cleaner. It can also be used on other metals such as copper and brass. By using this, you can safely clean all your tarnished silver jewelries without the risk of being poisoned.

Ammonia as a Silver cleaner

Ammonia is another homemade material that is being used as a silver cleaner. By mixing ¼ cup of ammonia with 1 cup of water, you will instantly have your silver cleaner. To use this, all you have to do is get a brush and dip it into the solution and use it to scrub your silver jewelries. After that, dip all your silver jewelries into the solution and let it be there for about 20 minutes. After that, remove your jewelries in it and then rinse it with water then let it dry with the use of a cotton cloth.

Tea as a Silver cleaner

You may be enjoying drinking your favorite hot tea but did you know that you can also enjoy using it to clean your silver jewelries? Well yes you can. To do this, simply dip your silver jewelries into a cup of hot tea and let it stay there for about 10 minutes. After that, remove it from the cup of tea, scrub it a little bit, and then wipe it dry.

Bridal Jewelry Necklace

Bridal jewelry Necklace
Bridal jewelry Necklace

Monday, 5 September 2011

Steampunk Necklace

Steampunk Necklace
Steampunk Necklace

Sunye and Yubin pose for W Korea

 



W Korea is quick to jump on the masculine trend this season. Featuring Sunye and Yubin of Wonder Girls in their September issue, the ladies were wearing both feminine and masculine garments from Alexander Wang, Bell & Nouveau, Cartier, Givenchy, Jain Song, Dolce & Gabbana, Rick Owens and more.

Donning red and blonde wigs, they were photographed by Kim Young Jun. Check out the stunning editorial entitled, Two Girls as well as the behind-the-scenes video.

How to Make Silver Jewelry





The way of making silver jewelry is considered to be a work of art for it takes time and creativity before one can make a unique and stylish design for it. It may seem hard for everyone but if you will just see and learn the art of making these fine jewelries, you can see that it is just simple as you ever imagine.



Silver jewelries are considered to be among the finest piece of jewelry after gold. If you want to invest on jewelries but you don’t have that enough money to invest on gold, then you have a great option in choosing silver jewelries. Due to its increasing popularity these days, even a small investment in this kind of jewelry can turn into gold.



Now let’s take a look at how these pieces of jewelries are being made. Well you see, making silver jewelries is very simple. Whether you want to make a silver ring or a silver necklace, all of its procedure is simple and not that complicated.



When starting to make a silver jewelry, the first thing that everyone must have is all the materials needed. The materials needed for this includes the binding wire that will be used for handling the soldered silver pieces, different kinds of fliers for the bending, and shaping the silver pieces, files that will be used for cleaning the inner part of the silver pieces such as rings, a ball peen hammer use also for shaping the silver, jeweler’s saw for cutting excess silver, soldering torch, vise, charcoal, and insulated tweezers.



When all the materials are ready, then you can now start making your own piece of silver jewelry. Now the first thing that you have to do is to cut the silver into the necessary sizes that you want for your jewelry. If you want to make a ring, then you just have to cut a piece of silver that will fit in your finger. Cut also small pieces of silver for the decoration of your jewelry. Now once you have cut out all the pieces that you need; now it is time to shape them and attach them to make them whole. With the use of the fliers, shape them according to the shape that you want. Then, heat up the soldering torch and then carefully put all the pieces together. You may need to use the bending wire of the fliers in holding the silver so that you won’t burn your hands. When you’re all done, let it cool first. Now you have your own piece of silver jewelry.