Now is the time to shine. Fashion trends for 2009/10 is all about sparkle. Looking for that silver lining, and finding it. Beaded jewelry designs reign, it's all about luminous, shine, shimmer and gleam. The geometry of jewelry - once illustrated as a simple piece to enhance an outfit, has now exploded into a major statement, whether it be at the neck, stacked on your wrists, or fluttering from your ears. Jewelry today has taken on a life of it's own - a category not to be messed with - a demand for every fashion conscious person. Beaded jewelry designs exceed those demands supplying interest, color and fashion fusion. In the jewelry sector, a handcrafted one of a kind, work of art is stand alone. The combinations of semiprecious or precious gemstones (What is a Gemstone), all mixed up in a jumble of color, glass beads, pearls and Swarovski crystal are enough to make me swoon. And swoon I do each time I see another example of an exquisite design. Now here's the big question - do we all swoon at the same thing, or is our taste fine tuned to our own personal style? I know we follow the trends, but what about the designs within each one of these trends?
Is fashion intelligence relevant to the trends or does our particular style-indulgence peak when we bump into that singular exceptional piece that does make us swoon? I'm sure of one thing, good design survives - forever. The "forever" designs used to be called Classics. Fifty years from now, what will the fashionistas say about the designs of today? Will those designs still be called Classics, or will we fashion a new label that corresponds with the au courant of the day.

Let's make the most of the trends, combine them with our personal panache. Express ourselves when wearing art to wear, designer beaded jewelry. Create fashion statements, cutting edge expressions and imprint that, on your own personal style.