Happy Australia Day

Happy Australia Day! As an Aussie I love the colours of the outback. I lived in central Australia for a while with my young family and loved my walks in the bush with the gorgeous red rusty colours in the early hours of the morning. I have dedicated a few designs to the colours of the Australian outback. Some presented here.

A beautiful rich red Jasper Pendant Pearl and Gemstone necklace and my recently made long white pearl necklace with strong earthy colours with the white pearls representing the magnificent clouds we see in the Australian sky. A natural carnelian accent stone, sprinkled with natural tourmaline chips and lovely sterling silver. Plus the Japser Donut necklace, which I also make with pearls. All these and more are all available in my Etsy store.  

https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/JulleenJewels

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https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/205242532/jasper-donut-beige-leather-choker?ref=shop_home_active_1

 

Beautiful Amethyst, birthstone for February.

Who doesn’t like amethysts. Some of the most beautiful gems on earth are amethyst. I love working with them. The richer the purple hue the better I like it.

I found these in my favourite Pakistiani gem merchants’ in Indonesia. You have to be a long standing client to even be allowed to enter. There are armed guards at the entrances and it’s here that I always like to go when looking for top quality stones. Going there is quite an experience for me as the walls are filled with cabinets and drawers that are filled to the brim with gems! It’s sheer heaven for me.

Today I added a set of emerald cut amethyst earrings that are individually bezil set, to the Julleen E-Tail store, and I wanted to share their beauty with you.

http://www.julleen.com/product/amethyst-emerald-cut-ss-earring/

Chasing the best black pearl earring.

A good friend of mine and regular customer for 16 years, bought a beautiful set of very expensive Black Salt Water pearls in about 10 mm. They were sold with backs that, being gold, were as costly as the actual earring and weighed more than the pearls. As this was an expensive gift from her husband I complimented her on the earrings but I did not like what I saw. The earrings were actually just drooping off her ear looking like they were about to drop off completely. The backs were weighing the lobes down but she blamed her sagging lobes. I however, blamed the backings.

I offered her a Julleen lobe lift to try on. Immediately the droop was altered. I also showed her the set of black pearl studs (seen below) in 11 mm. Voila instant love! A stunning new black earring with the set of lobe lifts and the look was spectacular! She left here a happy girl, with quality black Julleen earrings sitting up high on the lobe and not looking as though she were about to lose them any second.

The point is – Freshwater pearls to me, definitely have more substance and more value than the salt water variety. It was good to have helped a good friend and just wonderful to get to see the results of the products I love and sell.

See Below – the black studs the lobe lift and a few popular earrings.

http://www.julleen.com/store/earrings/pearl-stud/

http://www.julleen.com/product/green-pearl-earring/

http://www.julleen.com/product/lobe-lift-secret-earring/

http://www.julleen.com/product/miss-julleen-pearl-earrings/

 

Classic Designs Live On

Happy new Year to everyone. A fresh start for 2016 for me and for my Julleen label. Whilst reviewing the designs on my bridal jewellery and the Julleen fashion E-tail stores each new year, I am determined to reduce the online collection. Each year I am pleasantly surprised how my classical looks live on.

To shop for the designs below click on Online Shop (top left)

It’s difficult culling designs that have taken many hours to create and get online for sale. It’s a huge job but one I love. There are plenty of fashion houses that cater to the quick fashionable throw away jewellery pieces and I appreciate them for what they are…a quick fix! I love making pearl jewellery that I love myself and it’s proven to be the best formula for Julleen designs for many years. Most of these are classical styles and I am pretty proud of them. It’s incredibly rewarding for me to see many of my pieces still being worn by customers who still love and wear their Julleen pieces virtually until they drop off. But guess what??.. they never do.

For 2016 I am going back to basics and concentrating on more luscious and substantial classic and timeless pieces.

 

 

 

Pretty New Aquamarine and Turquoise Design on Etsy

I’ve added a lovely new necklace/come/bracelet to Etsy in blues and colours of Summer to my Etsy store. The colours are so happy and bare the colours of a Summery beach day in Australia. Filled with aquamarine, amethyst, loads of colour assisted freshwater pearls. What’s so special is it can be worn and looks spectacular as a chunky gemstone bracelet in pretty blues and soft mauve.

Pretty Aqua Pearl Necklaces on my Etsty E -tail Store

The freshness of the colour Aqua is always a favourite of mine and so for Spring I created a small collection of pearl and stone necklace using this special colour. Aqua is virtually a neutral colour some how as (I can’t explain why) but it seems to go with anything and everything.

I have added some designs here which are particularly special. My latest design if the Y style is now available on Esty along with the other two all featuring Aqua or a minty pales green.

Please follow this link

https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/247430889/aqua-cultured-pearl-lariat-with-gold?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Love working with black pearls

Ever since I started designing pearl jewellery, definitely one of my very favourite pearls to work with are a black pearls. Usually once a style is made and added to my E-tail stores, it’s pretty obvious that others love black pearls too. I just created this new one which I’d like to share with you. I have placed it in my Etsy store.

https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/247789829/black-pearl-necklace-with-huge-rock?ref=shop_home_feat_4

 

Reviews on Etsy

 

It’s great for small businesses to be on Etsy. The reaction to my little E-Tail store there has been surprisingly good. Buyers need to have confidence in your product and how you get that confidence is by purchasers leaving their reviews. What I am finding a bit frustrating is that my buyers who all say they love their purchases do not often leave a review. Seems like 50% leave one whilst the others want to but get confused as to how to do this.

I therefore want to say if you are a member of Etsy. This is how you leave a Review. At the top right of the page (when you are logged on) you’ll see a “You” Left click on that you, then left click on “Purchases and Reviews”. Then chose the item you paid for and leave that review.

Short Pearl Necklaces on Etsy by Julleen

Every now and again we get requests for a shorter style necklace that is not the usual plain string of pearls. Most people like sterling silver and I often use substanial amounts to section of each pearl or cluster of pearls to set them apart – you know- let them shine!

Here are some of the current ones I have on Etsy that may appeal.

Bronze and Cream Pearl Necklaace with Citrines:
https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/244521101/black-bronze-and-creamy-champagne-pearl?ref=shop_home_active_6

Cream, Pink. Champagne and White Pearl and Sterling Silver Necklace:
https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/246002475/chunky-white-gold-peach-and-pink-pearl?ref=listing-shop-header-2

 

You Tube Gone Mad

How can a pearl jewellery video be labeled as COULD BE INAPPROPRIATE. Today I am hopping mad about something that seems to be wrong with the You Tube decision makers. A three year old video on my You Tube Julleen1 Channel is marked as COULD BE inappropriate. Surely this short and hopefully helpful video is not only entertaining but informative. Most certainly not the least bit dangerous or containing inappropriate language for a child to watch or anyone really.

I think there is something very wrong with the You Tube filtering and labeling system, if just one viewer, can tag a DISLIKE, to a perfectly innocent video and then that video, can be negatively labelled. This is a jewelllery info video and is not one of a head being chopped off or anything of a sexual nature and is all my own content. This video is about Droopy Ear Lobes and about showing people how I can help with this problem by introducing a product I have made. A simple little jewellery item that helps prop up the ear or a drooping earring. Judge for yourselves. PLEASE HELP ME GET THIS LABEL REMOVED BY CLICKING LIKE on my You Tube video on my Julleen1 channel.

HERE’S THE VIDEO MARKED – COULD BE INAPPROPRIATE:

Ear Lobe Lift
Ear Lobe Lift

Here’s what I have writen on my Facebook page for My Bridal Jewellery

 

PLEASE HELP me sort this out. YouTube has just decided to tag the above video as “Could be inappropriate”. One DISLIKE!..it seems…on my video can cause it to be labelled. I’ve checked the criteria listed by You Tube that could deem it to be “inappropriate” but nothing fits. Can FREE SPEECH cause this action? Please support me by clicking “LIKE” on this video after you’ve seen it….on my YouTube channel. Let’s see if we can grab the attention of the decision makers and get this label removed