I am always glad to find a jewelry maker that is interested in colors.

Here is one I have just found. 

Arika claims to have been making jewelry for 15 years.

The designs are unique despite the simple designs. There is a love for working with stones and colors and this person cannot get enough of it. 

On first look, there are lots of colors and that is exciting but I like colorful jewelry to be themed and organised.

Jewelry with beads of diverse colors haphazardly strung together looks bizarre. So I'll like to look through the whole site to have a feel of this jewelry maker's mastery of colors.

I won't have time for that today so I'll make a post and leave that  for another day.

Shopping on the net can be more fruitful than at the malls. Sometimes you'll find things that you don't know exist and definitely are not found al the malls.

I'll know because I like to look at everything. 

I do a little dressing up for Halloween but it doesn't extend to jewelry so I feel a little inspired looking at this page .

It's kind of frightening and I wouldn't put on such a charm on normal days. But it will get me in the festive mood and maybe help me scare a few kids.

Oh, right. Nikki's birthday is coming up.

I can't believe I have to spend money and buy gifts again so soon after Christmas.

It's probably no fun to be born in early January as well.

Most people feel so spent after a long gift buying season, they will likely be fatigued like the way I'm feeling now.

Ken has proposed that we share this as a birthday gift .

I really don't know. Nikki likes animals but it's more like rabbits, cats and dogs. I don't think a tigerish bracelet is very appropriate but I am so not up to it - to protest or suggest alternatives.

But sharing is good.

I am so gift rich and cash poor right now. 

More than half of the Christmas gifts bought this year are jewelry.

This more or less confirms what I expected - I am more interested in jewelry than ever.

The other trend I have spotted is that the jewelry bought and gift wrapped this Christmas are few in the variety of plain silver and gold. I have developed an appetite for color in jewelry and it shows in this year's gifts.

Here is one that got away . This is the sort of colorful jewelry I would have loved to give and receive.

Too bad it's out of stock. I thought I'll make a post of it to remind myself to check on it in the future.

Some lucky gal may just get it for a gift for whatever occasion. That lucky gal may even be me. 

I took a good look on this page about green jewelry as it talks about the qualities and meanings of the color green too.

Green is of course the other color of Christmas, together with red.

I had got myself all excited about surrounding myself with more red this Christmas, it had just struck me that there is green too.

What about green? Should I have an interest in green around Christmas?

There is the Christmas tree and that is the most important 'green item' of Christmas.

My mind was wandering and I look the green jewelry page up for a read and wandered some more.

Green is hope, the color of spring. An important change that signifies the end of hard winter.

Green is life, the color of evergreens. It cheers and warms us when a snowy, white winter gets stark.

So, it's gonna be red jewelry to entice excitement and to inspire hope and life, perhaps a dash of green jewelry.