Taking Stock

By cataloging your existing jewelry collection, you will be able to perceive how much jewelry you have and start to notice similarities relating to the pieces that you possess. Your jewelry may adhere to an analogous style – artistic, modern, contemporary, traditional, or antique. Possibly you will discern that you favor silver to copper, handmade to production, or precious gems to pearls, or other gemstones. By noticing these parallels, you will then be able to harmonize pieces that match.Depending on your own likings, you might like to arrange your jewelry collection by grouping like items together – rings with rings, necklaces with necklaces, or you might favor joining your jewelry according to style or color.Most jewelry designers will not tell you this, but it is okay to combine a quality lab grown ruby ring with genuine ruby earrings, providing they look great together. It even okay to wear silver pieces with gold pieces together and to blend colored gems together. Two tone metal necklaces, bracelets, and earrings are currently stylish.After grouping your jewelry, take a good, long look…and ask yourself: What items do I wear frequently? What items don’t I wear? Why do I wear some things and not others? The answers to these questions might be for practical reasons. This causes you to take stock of those pieces that ought to stored carefully and that might also need insuring in case of loss or theft. Second, start writing down a wish list.