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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Sports Italian Charms

Extend the delightful enjoyment of your favorite sport by wearing License Sports Charms, to show to the world whatever your favorite sport may be. You can share your Passion for a sports team such as baseball, football, basketball and others, choosing from our special collection of License Sports Charms, those that match your taste. Manufactured as the highest quality products, our License Sport Charms feature a selection of authentic team logos of the National Football League (NFL), National Basketball Association (NBA), and Major League Baseball (MLB) and many others.

The team logos in our License Sports Charms are those of the team franchise itself and licensed by teams, ranging from classic sporting themes to your own personalized bracelet with custom charms. Football, Basketball, Soccer, Baseball, Hockey, or you name it. If not you, it may be your closest friend or a member of your family who have their favorite sports and teams, which would make the creation of a sport themed charm the perfect gift. Sports fans love to collect pictures and all kind of souvenirs related to their favorite teams and players. There are License Sports Charms for every budget, large or small, but for those wanting to collect charms; some basic principles may help them out.

Before starting a collection plan it, or do it in the early stages of your collection. Do you want to collect only gold charms? Many people have a particular taste for this metal while others prefer silver; however it may be only silver colored or golden colored charms depending on your budget.

This is only important if you want to give your collection a consistent look and feel, otherwise multi-colored charms collecting is not bad, the same as selecting the category, whether sports, animals, flowers, letters or whatever to express your personality. The collection may include only one category, or a few of the many available categories or assorted categories.

Then after, purchase a bracelet that already has only a few charms so that way you can start wearing your collection practically immediately, and if you are serious collector-to-be, keep a written history about each charm with the date, giver, and occasion.

Your Charms registry may be written in a regular paper notebook, or using custom collectible program software, available for download on the internet.

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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Dependants and Military Brats

Servicemembers aren?t the only ones who create friendships and then have to move on due to a transfer or release from service. Families can also build these close relationships and have to move on to new situations.

Social Networking provides not only a method to stay in touch, but also a method to conduct a search for people who might have been at a post at the same time they were present.

Some of these relationships can last for a lifetime, if they can be kept alive. Merely keeping in touch can keep contacts going and allow relationships to be rekindled when opportunity provides a chance to be together again.

Especially for teenagers, moving away from close friends can be traumatic. Social networking sites allow these teenagers to stay in close enough contact to justify keeping a friendship going. While a loss of contact can be permanent, if contact is retained, it is very possible to arrange for meetings in the future, perhaps even arranging to move to the same region at some point.

Of course, the same reasons that servicemembers might want to find other soldiers who share similar interests apply to dependants and military brats. Finding someone who shares your experiences, being at the same post at the same time is potentially interesting, but it can be even more rewarding if you find someone who has the same interests and has shared experiences.

This can also allow finding people who share some interests even before you reach your new home. Just as much as for soldiers, spouses and children also like to reduce the uncertainty of a new move, and having someone you know on the other end telling you what to expect can make life much simpler. Even when the news isn?t what you want to hear, knowing will allow planning and a response, while ignorance just allows panic.

For those so inclined, even separated by half a continent, these social networking systems can allow shared experiences such as friends taking the opportunity to see a movie on the same night even across the country, or a virtual visit. With a webcam and speaker, it is possible to hold a group chat with friends from all over and have almost as much fun as you can manage in person. The possibilities are limited only by the imagination, and whatever is currently popular.

Parents will be relatively happy since most of the bad things that can happen in teenage relationships are much harder to arrange over a modem. Teenagers will like having relationships that they can keep to themselves, as something uniquely theirs.

On the other hand, parents can talk to each other with other parents who have children and who are facing similar situations. They might even be able to identify the parents of the dreamboat their daughter is talking with online so they can all figure out what little can be done about it.

For a great way to network with or keep in touch with US Military members please check out the author's US Military based social website at http://militarysociety.com

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Monday, February 4, 2008

Choosing And Caring For A Tanzanite Pendant

Tanzanite is a very highly prized stone found only deep in the mines of Tanzania, Africa. There is speculation that the mines will soon be depleted and no other sources of Tanzanite has been discovered. Legend has it that the Masaai tribe discovered tanzanite after lightning had struck the plain brown stone, turning it a dazzling shade of violet. It is said that the Masaai traditionally give tanzanite as a gift when a baby is born.

Brought to consumers by jewelry legend Tiffany and Co. shortly after it's discovery in 1967, tanzanite has been a popular choice for jewelry ever since.

A tanzanite pendant can be a beautiful addition to your jewelry box. Ranging in size from one to usually no more than ten carats, a tanzanite pendant can be delicate and small or bold and big. The larger the stone, the more it will usually cost per carat.

Tanzanite has the amazing capacity to display shades of purple, blue, and even green and red, depending on it's cut and the way the light hits the stone. The most valuable stones are the ones with the deepest saturation of color.

Take care not to expose your tanzanite pendant to prolonged heat or elements such as seawater. Never put your tanzanite pendant in an ultrasonic jewelry cleaner. Your jeweler can advise you of the best way to clean your tanzanite, or they can simply do it for you. If your tanzanite pendant becomes smudged, simply polish gently with a soft cloth.

Tanzanite is preferred in pendants and earrings because of it's Moh's scale ranking. Coming in at 6.5, tanzanite is not as durable as other common gemstones. Tanzanite rings are more likely to be damaged than a harder gemstone. Pendants and earrings do not usually take as many jostles and hits the way rings might in everyday situations, so tanzanite is a fine choice for these types of jewelry.

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Monday, January 28, 2008

Pendants - Time To Reveal Who You Are

A pendant may appear as a very simple object, but with the power of human faith and the values that we tend to attach with it or any object, it can be the essence of an entire existence. While it can be just a piece of jewel for some, for others, it can be the cosmos of all the values and faith that they hold dear.

Can a pendant attain such a role in our lives, that we reflect what we are, who we are, what do we believe in through just a piece of jewellery? Can calling it - just a piece of jewellery - sound blasphemous to some? We wear 'The Cross' or 'The Lord' as something to keep God near our hearts. This shows more than the love for the Almighty.

Not just love for God, they are worn even to show love for people in our lives. Some wear them to remind them of their lovers or spouses, some wear for parents or it can be anyone, related to you in anyway. It reflects the strong bond of love that you hang around your neck and keep close to your heart.

There are people, usually this is seen more in youngsters, who wear their identity on their chest. It can be something that they identify themselves with or something that occupies a major role in their life. For example, you can wear a guitar or any musical instrument, if you are a die hard rock music (or any kind of music) fan.

And we simply can not forget pendants as jewellery. They are an integral part of neck jewellery. However pendants can be worn in other kinds of jewellery as well like tiara and belts or waist bands. Faceted or non faceted stones can be great as pendants. So can be pearls and diamonds. When worn as jewellery can add instant glow and beauty to your face and make you look prettier if chosen carefully.

Paul Shane cherishes a hobby of studying and collecting jewellery, to dig out the making and story behind them, especially the rare or exquisite ones, also Pearl Pendants being used for manufacturing the jewellery. He also loves studying consumer behaviour related to jewellery selecting and buying. At present he is associated with a leading group called E-Beads Limited.

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Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Pendant Lighting

 

Pendant lighting fixtures are suspended from the ceiling and get their name from the jewelry accessory of the same name. Pendant lighting has a distinctive appeal and is considered perfect for places like kitchen islands, desks, breakfast nooks and the like. Pendant lighting can be either a single pendant lighting fixture or two or three different ones teamed up to provide a dramatic effect. Generally when two or three pendant lighting fixtures are teamed up, mini pendant lighting fixtures are used. The area of pendant lighting provides a lot of scope for the use of creative designs and ideas.

It is advisable to mount pendant lighting fixtures at least 24" to 30" above the area to be lit. When mini pendants are used, the ideal height would be 18" to 24" above the surface area to be lighted. When two or three pendants are used, an adjustable pendant bar can be used to fix them at different heights. This makes it possible to adjust heights from time to time, varying the overall lighting effect in the process.

Pendant lighting fixtures are available in various styles. Some of the commonly seen styles are sleek clean designs, reflective stained glass and crinkle glass designs. Pendant lighting fixtures are task oriented and provide necessary lighting for specific areas. The intensity of light needed can be dictated by the choice of bulb used inside the pendant lighting fixture.

Most pendant lighting fixtures are available with chains and rods that enable adaptation for different heights. Multiple pendant lights in a single fixture at staggered heights create a dramatic effect and are ideal for use little corners of large rooms. This kind of lighting creates an interesting area in an otherwise ordinary room.

Pendant lighting fixtures made of hand blown glass are available starting around $30, with some costing $500 and above.

Differing budgets and lighting needs can be catered to efficiently by the imaginative use of pendant lighting.

Lighting provides detailed information on Lighting, Home Lighting, Outdoor Lighting, Landscape Lighting and more. Lighting is affiliated with Ceiling Lighting Fixtures

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