Gold Bracelet with Gold Charms - Fraser Ross Jewellery

Hey guys, this is just a quick video about my Pandora gold charms bracelet. I love this bracelet I wear it almost every day and I get asked a lot of questions, you know from what I've been into the charms, to how much do they run. are they retired, how long is the bracelet, I’ve been honest with you, I don't keep track, I've no idea so I've looked them all up and put all the information in one place.

I hope you find it informative and if you have any questions just shoot me a message over and I'll get right back to you, enjoy. So this is my Pandora bracelet, it is on a 14 karat gold bracelet and it is eight point three inches in length. they do come in different lengths but for this one I just wanted something a little larger so it doesn't get snug as I get beads to it.

it does run 1650 before taxes for this particular length, it does come with a gold barrel clasp that you can see says ‘Pandora’ and when I flip it over you can just see that there's a serial number inside and it's just a traditional pandora clasp and fits right inside, just like that. it is a little tricky putting it on yourself but I do get the hang of it. I do recommend in this and a safety chain as well which I need to put on here, so let's get started talking about the beads.

this first bead here is called the Royal Victorian black enamel bead and it runs around three hundred dollars and one of the things I love so much about it, is just that it has a lot of openwork so you can see the bracelet through it, it's a nice little bead this second one, we're just going to come back to just so I can show you some unique things on the sides.

this next one is a clip and it's called scene spots, it retails for $300 and it was retired back in 2013, however you can still find retired pieces in Pandora stores until they're completely sold out. this next bead is called Celtic circles pink topaz, it sells for 380 dollars and it is a current bead that you can purchase at any Pandora. I like it because it has a subtle amount of colour that it brings into the bracelet, so it's just a nice addition to it.

this next one's called the royal crown with diamonds, it retails for seven hundred seventy dollars and it unfortunately was just retired this year in 2015, but you can pretty much still find them in any Pandora store. I've yet to find one that's completely sold out of it and I love this little beady-eyed wanted it for a long time, but the one thing I found is a little annoying with it, is it does move around quite a bit, where it'll flip like this. really doesn't sit flush on your wrist but it just adds some uniqueness and character to the bracelet.

this next one's called the open your heart bead, it is a current bead that you can find it in depends on our store and it retails for 360 dollars and it's just another one that I really like, because of all the open work and being able to see the bracelet through the bead. this next one is a clip and it's called the babbling brook clip, it sells for 515 and I like it because it has some little diamond chips in it that just kind of accent the swirls in it.

it is a current piece, you can find it in any, this next charm bead is called constellation with onyx and it did just retire in 2015. it retails for 345 and you can still find it in some Pandora stores, again great openwork. and the last one over here is called rhodolite hypnotized clip it's actually a clip that I'm using as a bead, it did retire back in 2013, so it's super hard to find and it does retail for 395, but it just adds a little pop of colour.

so getting back to this bead now, it's called the pave light speed and you can see on the side it actually is labelled with Pandora and on the other side it has a serial ID number as well. it is Swarovski crystals, it's a current bead that's being sold and it retails for four hundred dollars and I think it just adds a nice amount of sparkle to the piece. so an important part of having jewellery is just how you store it and keep it when you're not wearing it and this is my little pandora jewellery box, those of you who have seen my other pandora video know it was from a gift set I got and I like to keep my gold bracelet in there. neat thing about this particular box is that there's a second layer underneath it where you can keep additional loose beads.

I just like it for general storage of my beads and also just a safe place for my bracelet when I don't have it on, for this particular bracelet in this length with these beads and clips it would run 5115 dollars, before taxes, a great way to save money but to get a similar look would be just to go with a silver Pandora bracelet or a silver bracelet with the gold clasp. another point to mention is that any silver bead can also be made into a gold bead by just ordering it at your Pandora store, so that pretty much wraps up my video. I hope you found it informative, any questions you have please feel free to shoot me a message and I'll make sure that I get back to you. thanks for stopping by.

Red Carpet Jewellery - by Fraser Ross

Hey guys it's Allison from fab sugar TV and I'm so excited about this next video. I was lucky enough to go behind-the-scenes at two of Hollywood's biggest jewellers, Martin Katz and Tiffany and company where celebrities go to get their red-carpet jewels. I just about passed out when they put a two-million-dollar ring on my finger. I have a few questions for you guys, so be sure to comment after you watch.

First what was your favourite piece? I think mine was the one where my Claire Danes and second if you were on the red carpet what would you wear? Let me know what you think in the comments and don't forget to subscribe. We're always dazzled by the beautiful baubles we see our favourite celebrities wearing on the red carpet, but it's not every day that you get to see and touch the actual pieces they wear. So today we're heading to Hollywood's biggest jewellers, Martin Katz and Tiffany and company to find out how much those red-carpet jewels really cost. Twenty million dollars, what they feel like up close, so lights and get a sneak peek at some of the hottest jewellery trends of the season.

We're going to see colour on the red carpet like you haven't seen before. First on the red carpet in 1992 was Sharon Stone. I've chosen three pieces here that you've seen on the red carpet, here's a sapphire earring that Frieda Pinto was wearing from Slumdog Millionaire and the beauty is and you see the light pastel sapphire, the dark little pinpoints of dark sapphire and you see there's even pink in there. Now this next pen Felicity Huffman wore in her hair, it's titanium so it's very, very light this is two hundred thousand dollars. We're not done yet because she also had earrings on, oh and these are pear shaped earrings, often referred to as the Oprah style earrings, there you are. Oh all right so let's get a grand total I’ve got two hundred thousand in my hair and 168,000 in my ears. Just have them all tell me about this ring that we got here, Claire Danes wore this to the Emmys 2002, this is an 10 carat pink diamond, the setting on this pink diamond it's in rose gold or pink gold and we're set with them pink diamonds around. This just was the crowning element to the whole ensemble. I really can't breathe right now. It does have a way of taking your breath away, as does the two million dollar price tag.

Wait I’ve got two million dollars on, I can't say two million dollars on my ring rack and flustered. So now that I’ve been dripped in diamonds, thank you so much for showing us the jewels that the celebrities have been wearing. So after Martin Katz, we came here to Tiffany & Company, another red-carpet jewellery staple. Their diamond experts told us about Natalie Portman's two million-dollar earrings and Kate Winslet yellow gold necklace and of course while I’m here I have to try on some jewels. So this year at the 2011 SAG Awards Natalie Portman worth Tiffany and she looks fantastic. I have the earrings she wore right here, this is 32 carats worth of fancy intense yellow diamonds, they're worth two million dollars. So Natalie didn’t stop there, she actually piled on three pave bracelets.

This is the year of Natalie Portman she's already won Best Actress at the sides and Best Actress at the Golden Globes and we have the necklace that she Ward's the Golden Globes this year. It's 68 thousand dollars worth of bezel-set diamonds, Kate Winslet always looks classic and for the 2010 Oscars to present two worlds, two stacked bracelets that look almost identical to the one I have here and she topped it off with a 3.1 million dollar necklace. So to get the full Kate Winslet effect, he stacked a colourless diamond bracelet alongside it. So this is what six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars of diamonds on your wrist looks like and let's find out what trends you can expect to see celebrities wearing this season.

Green has been a big red carpet trend from Angelina Jolie, Mila Kunis this season. It's definitely going to be about colour this year this is a beautiful 20 carat emerald. This is an old button probably from some Maharaja, this is a bead, the cycle wheel is a button with other small beads and what we call diamond relays. These are very small diamonds cut like pineapples. I love it get ready to see colour for the yellow cocktail rings - diamond drop earrings, we're excited to see if our red carpet trend predictions really come true. Check out pop sugars live coverage of the 2011 Oscars. I'm Allison, thanks for watching fab sugar TV.

Charm Bangle Bracelet - Jewellery by Fraser Ross

Hi this is Julie at beadaholique and I want to show you how to embellish an adjustable bangle bracelet. These are very popular right now, they are super trendy, see them with celebrities wearing them, you see them in the fashion magazines. This is a bangle bracelet that is adjustable. You see how this slides and there's a lot of different possibilities for embellishing it.

You can put charms on the outer ring, on the inside, or if you want to you can put on the loops. If you're going to put them on the loops I would just recommend just squeezing that loop just a little tighter shut, so then you can hang a charm on the loop. A lot of different things you can do with these and oftentimes you'll see people wearing them stacked. So perhaps there'll be a set like this, which is like a yoga inspired set, where they're all to a theme and you wear three or more at a time, but you don't have to keep them to a theme. They actually look really good, mixed metals combined together and just different ones combined on your wrist and that's really the way to wear them, but you can wear them singularly as well and I have a couple of different examples here to show you, the variety of things you can do with them.

Here this is really simple, it just has a single charm on it and that's very nice and elegant and you could pair that with this as well, you could also pair it with other ones. Then here we have a sports themed one, this is great as your, if you're making a gift, you can really personalize it. I actually pulled out some other charms here, just to give you an idea for personalization. Mom if you can do that for this one here or 10k for a marathon, a little athletic shoe for someone who loves to run, perhaps a sailboat for someone who loves to sail.

We have hundreds of charms on beadaholique.com that would really let you personalize these, it's a fun sports themed one. One thing I do want you to keep in mind though is you are going to want to always make sure you have the flexibility of that interior movement. So don't pack this so full it can't then do what it's meant to do which is to be adjustable. I have this one here I wanted to show you, just kind of a fun themed one of the bird and arrow, a nice bright red Swarovski crystal.

Here's a Paris themed one, the Eiffel Tower of course and the Wii symbol re showed you the yoga set and then I even have like a jingle bell holiday Christmas one with snowflakes and some jingle bells which are fun. So I do want to show you how you'd put one of these together, so I'm going to embellish this one with the letter K, an initial charm, our designer Karlin actually came up with this design and her name starts with K. I think that this should be hers, so first off I'm going to start by setting a Rivoli into a tierracast setting so this is a Swarovski crystal, it's very vibrant and you can see I just turned my cap over, punctured the top seal of my e6000 glue and now I'm just going to squeeze a little bit into that.

Well it does not take much, this glue is incredibly strong. These are not hard to make, this is some of the quickest and easiest jewelry you'll find, which again is why it is a really good gift item, but it's fun, it's fun, it's very on-trend very fashion-forward and is quite fun to make and to choose your different beads. So next I'm going to make a few little baubles. I have a pair of wire looping pliers instead of round nose pliers, definitely you can make loops with round nose pliers but I love these wire looping pliers because they do some of the work for me. I'm sure you've seen them in my other videos, so I am going to actually make a simple wrapped wire loop in this case. I could have made a simple loop, if you're going to do that just make sure your loop is big enough to get around the wire part of the bracelet.

I do that with my other baubles as well, these are Swarovski crystal faux pearls which are lovely. I remember when I was growing up my grandma gave me a charm bracelet and she would always give me a new charm on every holiday or birthday or you know special occasion and that was so special to me and I feel like these bangle bracelets are kind of the modern equivalent of that, and it's nice if you do have someone in your life who you might want to, you know, start a tradition with you, can either give them a new bangle with decorations for each special occasion or give them a you know, a blank one to start with.

Maybe just a charm or two and add to it as you go along, but I still have my grandmothers charm bracelet and I think that's a nice thing to do. See I made that loop a little bit different, I grabbed it with my pliers which is a good way of doing it, to clean up my loops as I go. Now I’ve got everything ready to attach, normally I'd let that dry for, you know, an hour or two before I progress to the next step, but for the purpose of the video I want to keep going.

So now I'm going to take a pair of chain nose pliers on each side of the open jump ring and just twist the jump ring open. Now remember you can put these wherever you want. I'm going to put most of my baubles on this bottom adjustable bar, don't be afraid to mix metals with these, I actually really think it's quite striking when you do put silver and gold together. I have an example of that here on this Christmas one. I think that's really pretty, now one thing you can do too, is you don't have to just do one jump ring per bobble attaching it, you can go ahead and take the bobble and the charm, put them on the same jump ring and then attach that and they're going to attach this to the outside. Close it back up, so now I’ve got some of the charms that move around and some that are fixed in the middle. That is what the finished piece looks like, so you can find all of these products and more along with a lot of project ideas and other videos relating to these at beadaholique.com.

Remove Knots From Necklaces

Hey guys, every so often, when you're doing as many yard sales and estate sales and garage sales as I do, you'll come across some gold jewellery that people will sell really cheap and you like to find anything that you can resell cheap, because, buy low and sell high is the way you make it in this business. Sometimes you'll find people that have gold necklace chains, very often, as a matter of fact, with knots in them and generally speaking a lot of people don't have the patience or the know how to handle knots and necklaces without kinking the chain or breaking the chain.

They just don't have the patience to handle it and deal with it, but you can actually do it very easy and a lot of people aren't aware of it. So I just wanted to show you something that I’ve been doing for years. I've showed a lot of other people and generally speaking, they've all said that it's the easiest way that they've, most of most of them had thrown jewellery out before, or let it go in their yard sells for a fraction of its worth. Simply because they couldn't handle simple knots and in order to get a lot out of a little, you can see how fine this gold chain is, to get a knot out of a fine gold chain like this you really only need to two instruments, perhaps three.

If your eyes aren't good enough to be able to see the knot and the chain very well you may have to invest in a good magnifying glass, but if your eyes are like mine the fairly decent you can still see fairly well. Really the only two things that you need are a safety pin and a pair of tweezers. Now not just any tweezers, but you need to find some that have a very fine point on them. I've actually done some grinding on these I used to work in a machine shop and I used to use these for precision work in the machine shop, but I use them now precision work with gold and silver necklaces and basically the only thing you have to do is you use the tweezers to stabilize the knot and if you'll just take the safety pin and find the centre of the knot.

The necklace chain comes in from this direction and goes out from this direction, or it comes in from this direction, gets twisted and knotted up and goes out the other direction. So the easiest way to do this is just to begin by finding a centre point. Put your PIN through it and that's going to give you a hole to work with and then as you begin to pull it very gently, you can find the slack with the tweezers. Then if you'll just gently pull away from one another, usually any simple knot will come out fairly easily using this method and even complex knots where there's two and three knots all bonded together in the necklace chain, you can still do it.

You just have to work one knot at a time and to save time I'm not going to show you that method but you can see how simply that knot came out, just by using these two instruments. Now you can look at a solid gold chain with a knot in it, especially if it has a big huge complex knot somewhere in it and it's two and three knots all bound together you can look at a piece of jewellery like that and say it's worthless or if you've got the right eye and you know what you're doing, you can look at that as a business opportunity because you can buy low and sell high after you've done a minimal amount of work to it.

So take that for what it's worth, practice a little bit, I would suggest if you were going to do it practice on an old chain that you don't care if you can't get or break it but you can get pretty proficient at it, at a very fast rate and I hope this helps you the next time one of your personal items gets kinked or if you're like me and you're always looking for an opportunity to get something cheap and resell it. Till next time, bye, bye.