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Valentine, Amethyst Beads Gothic Jewellery & Chinese New Year
Kung
Hei Fat Choy
- Happy New Year!
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Year of the Horse
Valentine's Day
Amethyst for February - The Royal Popestone
How to make an Amethyst Necklace
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Chinese
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MrBead
is based in Hong Kong, where the main annual holiday is Chinese New Year.
Called "Spring Festival" in Mainland China. Lion dancers and carnivals
take to the streets and fireworks to the skies.
In Mainland China many people
work inside large prosperous cities in the South East, a long way from their
poor native village homes. Over Spring Festival hundreds-of-millions
commute back to their village to be with the family. It's always a big
strain on the railway and airways, and often made worse by severe snow cutting
off power lines and runways!
Happy Chinese Year of the Horse
The new Chinese Year of the Horse begins January 31st 2014.
The twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac are divided into
elements, each with slightly different characteristics - this year is a Wooden
Horse. With slightly weaker traits to other horses, but clear thinking and the
power to replace old for the new. Free spirited, volatile, with dynamic yang
energy. All horses are considered fortunate and bring good luck.
For 2014 predictions and more on the Year of the Horse click
Chinese New Year
See my video of last Chinese New Year in HongKong:
Year of the Snake
Valentine’s
Day
Valentine’s
Day is the first of the seasonal celebrations
There are lot of gifts you can make for Valentine’s Day
Make anything personal, using heart beads, and red and pink pastel colours.
For our heart shaped beads click MrBead.com or MrBead.co.uk
Amethyst:
The Royal Purple Pope Stone 
What is Amethyst?
Amethyst is the gemstone for February, and for those born
under the zodiac of Pisces. Amethyst is known as the Royal Purple Pope Stone,
the purple variety of quartz. If it wasn't so abundant, amethyst would be very
expensive. Its name comes from the Greek, meaning not drunken. Perhaps due to a
belief that amethyst would sober the effects of alcohol.
Amethyst is always purple, but comes in
shades of pale lilac to deep purple. Deeper colours are more valuable - milky
amethyst is the cheapest. Amethyst is mined in South American, but the best in
Africa. Very dark amethyst, mostly in small sizes, also comes from Australia.
Mythology
According to Greek mythology, Dionysus, the God of
Intoxication was angered by an insult from a mere mortal and swore revenge on
the next mortal that crossed his path, creating fierce tigers to carry out his
wish. Along came unsuspecting Amethyst, a beautiful young maiden on her way to
pay tribute to the goddess Diana. Diana turned Amethyst into a statue of pure
crystalline quartz to protect her from the brutal claws. Dionysus wept tears of
wine in remorse for his action at the sight of the beautiful statue. The god's
tears stained the quartz purple, creating the gem we know today!
The
Church & Crown
Purple has
long been considered a royal colour, featured in the British Crown Jewels and a
favorite of ancient Egyptian royalty. Leonardo Da Vinci wrote that "amethyst
could dissipate evil thoughts and accelerate intelligence".
Because amethyst was believed to
encourage celibacy and symbolize piety, it was very important in the
ornamentation of churches in the middle ages. Amethyst is still the stone
of bishops' who often wear amethyst rings. Even in Tibet, amethyst is considered
sacred to the Buddha.
Benefits
Amethyst's sobering and calming qualities is why it's
considered to have the power to purify and bring peace. It's also believed to
boost lower energies higher, and heal at all levels of mind, body and spirit.
Amethyst is especially useful to calm overworked minds as it brings mental
strength, stability, and vigor, and reduces negativity.
Amethyst also supports all that is
transitional. Especially death and rebirth - providing peace of mind when a
loved one is lost. As an elixir, amethyst can help toothache, bone and joint
discomforts and problems with the stomach and digestion. It has also been known
taken for blood disease and balance blood sugar.
In
yoga, amethyst aids the 6th Chakra, the Third Eye, center of the body's
spiritual power. Because amethyst heightens awareness, both spiritual and
psychic - increasing intuition and psychic development and transition from a
normal state of consciousness to a deeper awareness.
Amethyst Jewellery Design
Amethyst jewelry sells well because it has never gone out
of fashion. In fact new-agers have made it more popular than ever. It's dark
royal colour oozes style. Amethyst goes well with silver, clear crystal and other
subtle colours. If you make hand-crafted jewelry; design matching necklaces,
bracelets, and earrings to offer more choice to your customers. Don't overpower
your design with too much of the gemstone - add lots of silver spacers and
findings to balance.
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How to make an Amethyst Necklace
These are the steps of MiMi making an amethyst necklace
using our amethyst nuggets and fancy drop beads (numbers are as pictures).
Note the crystal rondell beads and gold stardust used as spacers.
1)
Get all materials ready: nylon wire, crimping beads & 5mm stardust gold spacers,
crystal rondell beads, crimping pliers,
wire cutter,
catches, all beads.
2) Slide 2mm crimp bead onto wire and insert wire into eye on clasp
3) Loop and connect crimp bead.
4 & 5) Crimp attached to eye on clasp, and squeezing crimp bead closed.
6 & 7) Thread the beads into the wire.
8) Repeat steps 2 to 5 to secure the other end of the necklace.
9) Cutting off excess wire
10) Finished.
Gothic Jewellery
used
to be a division of punk. Bands like Siouxsie were originally
called punk until the early-80's, when goth emerged as a separate subculture with its own literature, music and fashion. Goff has little to do with
Germanic tribes that overthrew the Roman Empire!
Goth is a style and way of thought. The
common thread is an appreciation for the contrast between light and dark, good
and evil. Goffs know that the two can't exist without each other, and the
traditional values of those opposites are not necessarily true.
Gothic jewellery has never really gone out of fashion, and today's shamballa bracelets worn by the top hip-hop artists have added to the resent demand for skull beads.
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