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INTRODUCING NEW DESIGNS

If you’ve visited our bridal page recently, you’ve seen 3 new beach wedding sandals. Love is the theme of Hearts Desire, created with tiny, white, cat’s eye hearts, pearl cubes, clear glass rondelles and 6mm Swarovski crystals. This "love"ly bridal sandal features an elegant silver medallion imbedded with rhinestones. With our Heavenly Glow bridal sandals, your feet will twinkle in this sparkling combination of aurora borealis atlas beads, clear glass rondelles and 6mm Swarovski crystals. We’ve topped off this design with a gorgeous single rhinestone-studded centerpiece in glistening silver. And finally, Seaside Splendor, features aqua glass biconee beads coated with an aurora borealis finish. This pattern also includes 6mm Swarovski crystals and silver round spacers and is highlighted by a mother of pearl flower medallion. Make sure you take a look at these new additions to our beach wedding collection.

YIN AND YANG

Yin and Yang are famous symbols of the Tao & Taoism. The Symbol (Yin-Yang) represents the ancient Chinese understanding of how things work. The outer circle represents "everything", while the black and white shapes within the circle represent the interaction of two energies, called "yin" (black) and "yang" (white), which cause everything to happen. They are not completely black or white, just as things in life are not completely black or white, and they cannot exist without each other.

Since some of our customers have been asking for a black and white barefoot sandal, we decided that this new design should be made with yin and yang beads. Whether you attach your own meaning to yin and yang or whether you just like black and white – check out our latest design in foot jewelry. We’re only making a limited number of these sandals so act quickly!

 

 

 WE WOMEN LOVE OUR JEWELRY

 

 

The practice of adorning our bodies with jewelry goes back to the beginning of time. While every culture uses bangles and beads, the people of India have a long and interesting history of how jewelry plays a part of their lives. In a 2002 article written by Nitin Kumar that we found very informative, "the people of India have expended limitless energy and creativity in the invention of ornaments that celebrate the human body. Adorning the visible, material body, they feel, satisfies a universal longing for the embellishment of its intangible counterpart, namely the human spirit. Complementary to such thought is the conventional view that the graceful form of a woman is said to epitomize the ideal beauty and mystery inherent in nature. Thus befittingly each and every part of the feminine physique including the head, torso, limbs, and between the appended parts - have consistently been used to support ornaments, often in ingenious ways. The Indian idea being that only things covered with ornaments are beautiful.

While Indian culture has many types of adornment, did you know that an Indian woman wearing a "wristlet" or bangles signifies that she is married? Besides being a mark of a married woman, these have enormous romantic and amorous connotations. Often the Indian poet would indicate a woman pining for union with her husband or lover by bracelets slipping from her wrist due to her becoming thin in the agony of separation from him. The tinkling sound of women's bangles is full of significant messages expressing her presence, her wish for attention, her anger or desire to exchange glances.

An important concept associated with this feminine ornament has been responsible for its continuing popularity. It is a universally accepted idea that bangles identify the wearer as a married woman, reiterating her status as the beloved of her husband and the honored mother of a family. To the Indian woman, ornaments for the wrist have always been significant emblems of marriage. Even when changing bangles, a woman never allows her arm to be completely bare. A simple string or even the end of her sari is wrapped around the arm, until the new set is worn.

Feet are the support of the entire body and therefore accorded great significance. Indeed the foot is the human pedestal, in direct contact with Mother Earth, absorbing vigor from her powerful emanations. In a charming aside, it is worthwhile mentioning here that women in some tribes are given foot bells, chains, and tinkling anklets, not only to frighten snakes away when they move outside at night, but in order that their husbands may know where they are when they cannot be seen!

(For more on the use of jewelry in the Indian culture, check out this link: http://www.exoticindiaart.com)

 

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