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Reminiscing With Your Loved Ones Through Photo Jewelry

By Matthew Stanton
May 11, 2009
Photographs are displayed and fitted in so many ways into jewelry and frames, and photo jewelry is just one of those ways. This type of jewelry offers more than just decoration and ornamentation; it provides the person carrying the jewelry a remembrance of a loved one, and a fondness of the person in the picture. Jewelry with photographs can bridge an emotional connect from the bearer of the jewelry, to the subject in the photo.

Photo jewelry provides these two purposes. Aside from providing a glow and luster to your figure, the portrait inside a bracelet cover or a photo in your pendant will regularly remind you of that person, keeping the memories and the bonds fresh.

There are some pieces of jewelry that are simple rectangular pendants. They are small enough to hang from your neck but big enough to accommodate a small picture of your loved ones. These pendants have slots at either side, so that you can easily insert your photograph, therefore keeping someone dear to you closest to your heart, literally.

Bracelets can be vehicles to carry your photographs too. Reminisce at the experiences with your children in the picture, or fondly remember your spouse when you go through the hard times or when you are away on a business trip.

For a more authentic look and feel to your jewelry, handmade pieces of jewelry will be worth your money. Normally, a good handmade jewelry for photos is made out of pewter, and an alloy of tin, copper, and other metals. The combination of these materials allows the jewelry piece to be polished to sheen, engraved to, etched, and is light enough to be comfortably carried by the wearer.

In addition, handmade pieces inherently have more quality than mass-produced ones. The jewelry wearer will know this instantly, as it will have some minor differences than the others. Yet this only guarantees the owner that it is an authentic art piece.

Usually, the jewelry piece will have more than just an appropriate frame and picture on it; the piece might have additional eye candies like gemstones embedded in the frames, or additional pearls hanging from a pendant. There is really no limit to the designs that can be achieved with this jewelry. Yet, most of these are designed in such a way that they do not outshine the photograph.

Others like these have are designed to show two pictures at a time: one in the front and one at the back. Allowing two pictures inside a single jewelry piece will benefit the wearer with two or more portraits of people that he/she feels the need to connect with everyday. Necklace pendants are readily made with this design, as it will continuously flip back and forth and can be examined with ease.

With the right kind of jewelry, one does not need to visit his/her photo albums to get the nostalgic fix or a much needed therapeutic recollection of loved ones. Photo jewelry brings that function along with beautifying the wearer.
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