By cataloging your current handmade jewelry collection, you will be able to realize how much jewelry you have and establish similarities relating to the pieces that you have. Your jewelry may keep to an analogous style - artistic, modern, contemporary, traditional, or antique. Maybe you will perceive that you favor silver to gold, fashion to fine, or pearls to precious gems, or other gemstones. Classifying and grouping your jewelry in such a way will make you more aware of what matches and what doesn't.

Your personal preferences will dictate how you would like to coordinate your jewelry collection - group by like styles(contemporary, classic, antique), colors, or types of items (rings with rings - bracelets with bracelets). For example, you might place an antique earrings, ring, and bracelet set together. You might have a designer collection of fashionable pieces in a similar style or color that you want to keep as a group.

When you open your jewelry box, are you looking for a type, color, or style? Sort out your items in a way that works best for your way of life. You can break all the rules you have learned about mixing fashion jewelry with fine designer jewelry. Most jewelers will not let you know this, but it's okay to mix a quality imitation ruby ring with genuine ruby earrings, as long as they look lovely together. It is even tolerable to wear copper pieces with silver pieces together and to mix colored stones together. Two tone metal earrings, bracelets, and necklaces are currently stylish.

After organizing your jewelry, take a good, lengthy look...and ask yourself: What items do I wear most often? What items don't I wear? Why do I wear some things and not others? The answers to these questions might be for sensible reasons. For example, you might have items that need to be cleaned, or items that should be repaired, and that is why you don't wear them. At times the motive you don't wear a piece of jewelry is less plausible, but more emotional. A piece of jewelry may be linked with a prior relationship. While it once held a very unique meaning, it now harks back to sorrowful memories and so stays hidden in the bottom of your jewelry case. Get those items out of your jewelry case so they don't negatively impact all the good feelings that your positive jewelry posses.

While you have your jewelry out, and you are glaring at all of your great items, make a couple of lists. First, jot down the pieces you own, especially the ones of value. This causes you to take inventory of those pieces that ought to kept safely and that might also need insuring in case of theft or loss. Second, start writing down a wish list. Jot down all the things you crave you had to go with the things you already have. Place this list in your jewelry box as a note of what you would like. When you see a picture in a magazine or a piece on your list, tear it out and place it with your wish list. This will help you envision the jewelry you desire to buy.

This wish list will guide you in future jewelry buying decisions. That breathtaking pearl necklace that once belonged to your great-grandmother, but you seldom wear it because you don't have any earrings to match. Wish lists make gift buying a lot easier. Alluding to how great your unique carnelian bracelet would look with a carnelian ring might be just the trick to getting what you want during the next holiday or your birthday. Building a wish list can also help you discover items in your collection that can be altered in the future into what you desire. Think artistically about which items might gain new life in another form. Contact a talented jewelry designer that designs custom handcrafted jewelry and transform that old piece of jewelry into something amazing.

Most notably, taking stock of your current handmade jewelry and producing a wish list of what you would desire helps you in coordinating your jewelry ensemble. The focal point of assessing your jewelry collection is to build a cohesive jewelry ensemble that coordinates easily with any outfit. This ensures you will have items that correspond to each other rather than a assortment of items that end up getting lost in the shuffle and using up prized space. Once you have re-arranged your jewelry, you are ready to ponder your jewelry collection as a whole.