Fine Jade Jewelry, A Wonderful Work in the Art Garden

Jade, known as the "king of emerald" with its fresh & beautiful appearance and transparent texture. Featured with its gentle, crystal, modest and fine characters, people often use jade as a symbol of happy, reunion, harmony and beauty.


When you wear a blessing jewelry, as long as you cherishes the true, the good and the beautiful things, the jewels adhered to your skin will understand your the sincerity and truth, I believe that good fortune, good health, happiness, welfare will always be around you. Emerald is one kind of jades, compared with brilliant and flashing diamonds, Chinese people has given more enthusiasms on the fine, sleek and colorful emeralds.

The name of "Jade" has a very interesting origin: In general, stones in color of wine, maroon, ochre are called "emerald", while in color of pea green and deep-green called "jade". However, there has an another parlance: Legend has it that Fei is a birdie with red plumes, green jade is birdie with green feathers, so the merger of the two words refers specifically to a kind birdie who has cyan and brown feathers. As be assimilated as lovely and cute birdies, the beauty of jade is beyond of common speaking.

Not noly admired as its amorous but smooth color, bright but crystal luster, jade also been endowed with gracious noble characters. As an ancient saying goes: "The gentleman in the Derby-yu." If you wearing a crystal green but has a solid inherence jade jewelry, your gentlemanly style will open out naturally.

Perhaps that is why people are inclined to carve and chisel their favorited jades aborativelly, so as to present its delicate mettle and florid brilliance. In this way, One by one pieces of jade art were born.

As a wondenful work of Arts Academy, she emits limpid snd fleckless flavor, she display you a world detached from our daily life, and make all restless hearts regained quietness. Her pure, transparent and smart characters make people enjoyful, Furthermore, the auspicious patterns carved in her body indicate the luck and happiness yet!

* Part of the above jade jewelry pictures come from: http://www.made-in-china.com/products-search/hot-china-products/Jade.html

Swanage Day 3

The morning started off slowly with Sam being the biggest culprit in the "go slow at getting up" stakes. I went into the living room chanting, "Wakey wakey sea slug" as he was all coccooned in his duvet. Gemima quite happily joined in the attempt at waking him up!



Aaron went out the back to bring in all the washing as we needed it to go swimming and Gemima drew her impression of him on the window (look closely):


Sam exercised some serious bad dress sense (or maybe he is auditioning to be the next Jay):


We popped down to mum's caravan and then all went to the pool for a morning swim. A good time was had by all although as we had started late we didn't get a long session. Following our swim it was back to mum's caravan for brunch. Toni and I went to our caravan to change our shoes while two sulky boys did the washing up.

After some minor huffings and a teenage couple bickering we headed off and took a steam train to Corfe Castle. We popped into a cafe for a drink but there were still a lot of miserable kids with us :o(

The castle:


The crazy gang:


Aaron, Gemima, Toni and mum:


After various new strops and huffs our party fragemented so I want up high into the keep and used my super digital zoom to catch a photo of the Corfe Castle Grumping Committee:


Gemima started getting a bit whingy and grumpy and Sophie decided to pull strange faces to try and make her laugh (which seemed to work):


Things cheered up briefly as we headed back.

Toni and I on the train on the way back:


Sam riding his very own train:


We popped into Co-op to get some bits on the way back and then Toni, mum, Sophie and Gemima got a taxi back to the caravan whist Shane, Sam, Aaron and I walked back (but via the chinese take away). Sam still wasn't very happy and opted out of ordering and food as he said he wasn't hungry, very unlike him.

We had dinner and then things just seemed to explode, lots of silly comments being taken the wrong way before Sam just took off and left the caravan. After a few minutes I went searching for him. When I found him we went for a really long walk and had an excellent chat and managed to sort out some issues that he had going on in his head at the moment (nothing really to do with the holiday thankfully). One of them I can sort out immediately which pleased him and the others we can work on so he seemed much happier.

We returned to the caravan and I made him something to eat before we had a round of Chase The Ace and then all went off to bed. Plan is to get up early tomorrow so we can get a decent swimming session in.

Industry News & Information about China's Gifts & Crafts Export in 2008

China's Craft Gifts Exports Amount in the the First Three Months of 2008 Down by 7 Percent over the Previous Corresponding Year

China's US$4-billion craft gifts industry is experiencing a slowdown in export growth rates, as suppliers deal with high rawmaterial and increasing labor costs. Cuts in export tax rebates and the rising value of the yuan are also adding to the pressure.

Confronted by these challenges, export sales and volume in 2008 are foreseen to dip or at least remain at current levels. During thefirst three months of 2008, overseas revenue amounted to US$807 million, down by 7 percent over the previous corresponding year. Involume terms, shipments in the same period went up by a mere 0.8 percent.

China suppliers offer an extensive array of craft gifts in different materials, with designs made of porcelain and ceramic, polyresin, metal, glass and crystal, and wood constituting the bulk of exports.

Many suppliers of China are optimistic about sales growth, particularly for metal, and glass and crystal crafts. These product categories are enjoying higher demand than others, partly because they have a stronger contemporary appeal and are deemed more environment-friendly. Despite rising production costs, many suppliers are optimistic about sales growth, particularly for metal, and glass and crystalcrafts. These product categories are enjoying higher demand than others, partly because they have a stronger contemporary appeal andare deemed more environment-friendly.

Main Gifts & Crafts Products in The Current Market :

While handpainting remains a unique selling point for China-made crafts & gifts, more companies are investing in high-tech equipment,including laser-engraving machines for glass and crystal designs.

With the intensifying preference for "green" products worldwide, environment-friendly designs will be the key trend for China-madecraft gifts in coming months. Plant-based dyes and certified materials with low lead content will be used in greater numbers.

In line with expanding design ranges, most manufacturers will boost their capacity by 20 to 50 percent in the next 12 months.

Market Key Trends of Gifts & Crafts Products :

In detail, the following are some of the key trends we see in China's crafts & gift industry:

- Decorative craft gifts such as tabletop figurines, miniature replicas, decors and wall hangings made of ceramic and porcelain, metal, polyresin, glass and crystal, and wood. Functional products such as photo frames, clocks and candle holdersare excluded.

- The rising cost of tin, wood and clay is likely to carry on through the rest of 2008, forcing the majority of makers to increaseprices. Most companies doing so will cap markups at 5 percent to stay competitive.

- With the intensifying preference for "green" products worldwide, environment-friendly designs will be the key trend for craft gifts incoming months. Plant-based dyes and certified materials with low lead content will be used in greater numbers.

- Designs constructed from combination materials such as wood and metal for tabletop figurines will also be popular in coming months.This technique not only raises the models' aesthetic appeal but also reduces the product cost.

- In line with expanding design ranges, most manufacturers will boost their capacity by 20 to 50 percent in the next 12 months, mainlyvia adding more machines and expanding production workshops.

- Craft gifts made of ceramic and porcelain, metal, polyresin, glass and crystal, and wood. The product scope islimited mainly to decorative models such as tabletop figurines, miniature replicas, decors and wall hangings. It does not includefunctional designs such as photo frames, clocks and candle holders.

Gifts & Crafts Market Opportunities

The line between general gifts and decorative accessories is slowly disappearing, with home furnishings still the dominant category. The home furnishings segment (includes candles, picture frames, tabletop accessories and vases) was valued at US$17 billion.

The most important emerging trend in the general giftware sector is the move away from gifts purchased for another person, to purchases increasingly being for the individuals themselves. Important product segments for self-purchases include: home furnishings, aromatherapy products, art candles, Christmas decorations, lamps, linens/throws and plush toys.

Seemingly unlimited access and exposure to new products, materials and resource markets has made US consumers impatient. As a result, Australian suppliers need to have a steady supply of new designs, concepts and/or products available for their distributors and buyers.

American consumers are increasingly using the Internet for purchases. More importantly, consumers are using it as part of their process for learning about and identifying products for purchases made in retail environments. The existence and accessibility of the Internet to consumers becomes a source of legitimacy for the manufacturer. It also becomes an opportunity to communicate information to receptive consumers. The website should be user friendly, providing easy navigation to product information.

Jewellery in particular has sold well over the Internet. Online sellers are often able to sell at lower prices due to fewer middlemen, lower overheads and a 24-hour store front. A search for the keyword 'jewellery' on eBay reveals close to 40,000 items.

US gift convention organisers are the most experienced intermediaries between buyers and wholesalers, and several have launched B2B websites (ie. Americas Mart and Dallas Market Center) designed to capitalise on their existing relationships and expertise.

While most B2B gift industry sites market product on behalf of suppliers, the web is also producing a cyber version of the wholesale distributor — a company in the China that will take ownership of the product and resell it to the retailers. Examples include www.123giftfactory.com, www.made-in-china.com and Whereoware.