By Cindy Chelini

Flower designs are very hot such as semi precious pedant necklaces. It adds feminine touch to anything you wear and pink flower jewelry is especially flattering. Black and white colors are really big now; it looks elegant when matching these colors with sterling silver chains, silver earrings or silver necklaces.

Another big fashion trend is sun-kissed shades such as orange, yellow, green, and blue; these sun kissed shades are a great eye catching combinations; for example imagine a necklace made of red adventuring jade (orange shade), green adventuring jade, and golden yellow topaz crystals.

Translucent jewelry is very trendy, mostly quartz jewelry, clear quartz, rose quartz, and smoky quartz, they look even more trendy when they are matched with crystal beads.

Blue is the color of the season, it matches good with green, yellow and white, there are so many beautiful tones of blue in nature, and when it combines with sparkling Austrian crystals.

For example: imagine a necklace where the pendant is light blue turquoise, add to it blue sapphire crystals, light chalcedony stones, and white fresh water pearls.

Mint color, (sun kissed green) plus all shades of blues, and bulky semi precious stones necklaces with silver color chains are in style now (Spring 2007).

Cindy Chelini, jewelry and fashion designer, Santa Monica, Ca working for: wholesale jewelry