Cross Pendants - Budded Cross Symbol

Cross Pendants

Cross pendants are a huge part of Christian jewelry and have have numerous symbols beyond the traditional symbolism of the Cross. This post focuses on the Budded cross pendants.

Budded Cross pendants are also know as the Apostles Cross, Disciples Cross, the Trefoil Cross.

A budded cross pendant is generally a Latin cross with each end cap consisting of a bud which some consider a fleur de lis variation others consider it to be a three-leaf clover end cap.

These three buds represent the Trinity or Godhead. Others use the symbology to refer to the great bible virtues of Faith, Hope and Love. This kind og symbolsim for the cross pendant adds deepth to Christian Jewelry.

The three buds as end caps is where the reference of Trefoil or Treflee come into play representing the symbolism of three.

The Apostles Cross Pendant symbolism comes from the following: The cross has four arms with three buds on each arm. This creates twelve which conicides with the original twelve Apostles. The bible frequently refers to the Apostles as disciples so it also is called a Disciples Cross.

Cross pendants have even more symbolism than this post covers. We'll review the other symbolism in other cross pendant posts. Cross pendants are great because they can go with many different sterling silver necklace chains and other necklace mediums making for great cross necklaces.

Affirmation Jewelry Charms and Necklaces

Sterling Silver Fine Affirmation Jewelry Charms

• Sterling silver Affirmation jewelry charms are word charms that are in the shape of a circle.



• They are about the size of a quarter or about 7/8" round.



• They are engraved on both sides.



• There are over 160 word charms to choose from.



• They are made from 2.6 grams .925 solid sterling silver.



• They are most commonly worn as an affirmation necklace.



• They are called affirmation charms but are really slider pendants.



• The affirmation words can be used to uplift and motive you.



• The affirmation charm words can be used as message charms send thought or good karma out.



• They are wildly popular.



• They are also used extensively with positive affirmations.



• Affirmation jewelry charms can be used with other charms and pendants to create a special theme.

Celtic Rings

Sterling Silver Celtic Rings

Celtic ring are defined as rings with Celtic designs on them. http://www.handcraftedcollectibles.com/ is known for its Celtic Jewelry collection. Part of that is a nice collection of Celtic Rings.

Celtic rings can be exclusively decorated with Celtic symbols but now days jewelry designers combine Irish designs and Irish Claddagh designs with Celtic designs. Check our a few samples of these Celtic Rings:

Dog Breed Jewelry Charms

Celebrating the quirky characteristics of man's best friend with Dog Jewelry. The Dog.

A dog can be an angel one minute and a lazy dog the next. sometimes you catch him in the garbage and sometimes he chases his tail. but we love our dogs.

SilverAnimals.com has one of the greatest selections of Dog Jewelry on the internet.
Sterling silver dog charms, dog breed charms, and dog necklaces

Dog Jewelry with dog charms suitable for necklace charms or for silver charm bracelets.

Religious Jewelry

Religious jewelry is a vast category of jewelry. Religious jewelry can mean Christian jewelry, it can mean Jewish (Shema) Jewelry, it can mean Hindu jewelry, Buddhist jewelry, pagan jewelry, Celtic jewelry, cross jewelry and the list could keep going.

Since this blog is about online jewelry shops then it more understandable to look at it from a click point of view. Because Religious jewelry is so vague it has a monthly click count of around 4400 compared to something more specific to Christian jewelry which has a click count of 6600 per month. These values vary according to what time of the year your researching.

While it is true that Religious jewelry can accomodate many different religious types of jewelry under its umbrella, you'll see by doing a search in the major search engines that the first several 100 or so results to the search term "Religious Jewelry" are primarily Christian jewelry with Cross jewelry and cross necklaces being the main stay.

What I've discovered in my searches for Religious Jewelry and Christian Jewelry is that the results come up different which gives you a broader selection of Christian jewelry to select from.

Horse Jewelry. Sterling silver Equestrian Jewelry Charms

Horse and Equestrian Jewelry

This unique Horse (Equestrian) Jewelry necklace is the essentail horse necklace expressing your love for forse better than any other piece of horse jewelry.

For a large selection of Horse Jewelry and Equestrian jewelry

Horseshoe Charms

Celtic Jewelry: Symbolism of Celtic Designs

Symbolism of Celtic Jewelry

Celtic jewelry derives it's vast symbols and imagery from the celtic signs and symbols of the people know as Celt's that lived as a civilization and culture from around 500 BC to 400 AD.

The common denominator in all Celtic sumbolism is the use of geometric designs. Straight lines, curves, circles, squares and a myriad of other styles of lines that make up beutiful symbols that are still wildly popular today. In modern Celtic Jewelry there are symbols that harken back to the Celtic people and designs that are modern but contain similar geometric designs as the old symbols.

When the Celt's were in their zenith they had a very large force spanning from the UK regions throughout western Europe. The one unfortunate thing is that lack of a written language to explain the meanings of the symbols. We know what some symbols mean by the way they were used. We know other symbols meanings by the history of conquering forces and their writtings.

We also know that in the 900 or so years of existance they often used symbols in one era one way and in another era they use the same symbols another way.

With all this confusion of truely understanding what there delightful symbols mean, it hasn't seemed to bother anyone as Celtic Jewelry is vastly popular today in use in the facades of buildings, churches, desings and jewelry.

For a great selection of Celtic jewelry like Celtic Rings, Celtic necklaces, Celtic Cross necklaces, Celtic Earrings, Celtic Jewelry Toe Rings etc. you can symply go to Celtic Jewelry and shop until you drop and come away with delightful Celtic Jewelry treasures.

Cross Necklaces

STERLING SILVER CROSS NECKLACES

The Cross Necklace is THE piece of jewelry that is the most popular in Christian Jewelry.

Sterling silver is still the most affordable precious metal in fine jewelry. Because of its price, jewelry designers create what seems to be an endless supply of different stylistic cross necklaces. Traditional cross necklaces, celtic cross necklaces, modern designed cross necklaces etc.

WWW.HandCraftedCollectibles.com has the largest collection of sterling silver cross necklaces for men and women.

When looking for jewelry that inspires and is fashionable look no farther than WWW.HandCraftedCollectibles.com for all your Christian jewelry needs.

Sterling Silver Charms and Pendants

STERLING SILVER CHARMS and PENDANTS

Sterling silver charms are a wonderful item of jewelry because of there versatility. They can be worn on a charm bracelet, as a charm necklace or a sterling silver charms could even be used on a key chain or golf ball marker.

WWW.SilverAnimals.com has a broad selection of sterling silver charms such as:

• Affirmation charms
• Animal charms
• Dog Charms
• Butterfly Charms
• Dragonfly charms
• Cross Pendants
• Turtle Charms
• Frog charms

The list could go on quite a bit longer. The single most popular sterling silver charm collection would be the affirmation charms.

Cross Ring and Christian Rings

Cross Rings and Christian Ring

Sterling silver Cross rings are inspirational and fashionable. Even affordable considering they are made from the most reflective precious metal, sterling silver.

Christian rings are probably one of the oldest style of Christian jewelry.

You can get you fashion and inspiration all on one finger. This type of Christian jewelry is perfect for those who want that constant visual reminder of inspiration religious jewelry without wearing a necklace.

Cross rings inspire you and testify of your faith.

Dog Jewelry Charms

Sterling silver dog jewelry and dog charms are the way for a dog lover to celebrate their love affair with mans best friend, the dog.

SilverAnimals.com is your source for sterling silver dog jewelry and sterling silver dog charms. They capture the essence of the quirky qualities of mans four legged best friend.

These few dog jewelry charm pictures are just a small sampling of what's available in their large dog jewelry collection. They have dog charms, pendants, necklaces and earrings. These dog jewelry pieces represent the lazy dog on a rocking chair to a dog bowl (some dogs never stop eating) and so on.

Dogs capture a place in our heart that is reserved for dogs, the perfect pet and friend. Wearing a piece of dog jewelry will remind you in places where a picture of your dog is not available of just how great your relationship is with you and your dog.

SilverAnimals.com celebrates all types of dog and have a section of pure breed dog jewelry charms. This section of their web site is growing almost weekly as they find and add more dog breed charms to it.

You will find the most unique dog jewelry possible at this web site as this last dog necklace picture represents. There are more like it carryinf similar messages.

Cross Necklaces Part 1

Sterling silver cross necklaces are among the most popular category of Christian and Religious Jewelry. They are worn by almost every Christian denomination with few notible exceptions. About 25% or more of the world is Christian and therefore cross necklaces are worn around the world.

The international wearing of cross necklaces is good because jewelry designers have many different influences to draw from as well as many different influences to cater to.

There is also the historic issue of cross necklaces. The cross necklace has many different meanings and subtle differences which are symbolic of many different Christian thoughts and religious ideas.

A great example of the international cultural differences in the design of cross necklaces is the very popular Celtic cross necklaces. The celtic cross necklace is non denominational and used by Christian in Europe and America.

Celtic cross necklaces have many different styles some originating in Ireland and some originating in America. It is interesting to see Irish people buy American design Celtic cross necklaces. It does happen.

Generally what makes a cross and Celtic cross is the presence of a circle at the intersection of the traditional cross.

However as the pictures show Celtic crosses can be much more than that. They can have celtic knotwork and trinity knots on the cross. Some have Claddaghs or shamrocks in the intersection of the cross.

The creators of these Celtic cross necklaces have creative minds as the creative evolution goes on. What matters most is the element of inspiration that a good cross necklace has. If the design is to far out then you loose that inspirational or uplifting aspect of sacred jewelry that the celtic cross represents.

One of the celtic aspects of the Celtic cross necklaces is the presence of the Trinity Knot. That gives the Celtic cross extra inspiration once you under stand the trinity knot.

The trinity knot can be seen on many of these Celtic cross necklace pictures. It's a geometric knot design with three points triangular in appearance. The three corners are used to represent the Holy Trinity. Each point represents a member of the Godhead.

In the category of cross necklaces, you have smaller groups that are a little specialized. We have already alluded to the historically symbol cross necklace types like the budded cross, Disciples crosses and so for. But their are cross necklaces for men, cross necklaces for women, cross necklaces for children to name a few.

Even though there are groups of cross necklaces for men and for women many people ignore the "man" or "women" part because often gender is a marketing issue and if the cross necklace meets a persons crieria then they go with it.

WWW.HandCraftedCollectibles.com has the largest or one of the largest collection of sterling silver cross necklaces (around 18,000) possible cross necklaces, they also offer a very large selection of sterling silver cross pendants both traditional and Celtic cross pendants. They have several sterling silver necklace chains that allow you to mix and match and create your own uniqe cross necklace.

Whatever your looking for in cross jewelry or cross necklaces you'll find it at handCraftedCollectibles.com.

Sterling Silver Butterfly Jewelry Charms

Butterfly Jewelry is a great theme for celebrating the beauty of butterflies. It has been, for years, a very popular style of jewelry.



Butterflies have great beauty and symbolism.

This Butterfly Jewelry collection has Butterfly Jewelry charms and pendants, butterfly earrings, toe rings and butterfly necklaces. You can aslo find great information about the butterfly, its qualities, totem meaning etc.



Butterfly Symbolism in short realtes to how butterflies bring color and joy to your life. Look at them and remember what joy is in your life, if its a lot or a little, it is still joy. They teach us that growth and transformation does not have to traumatic;it can occur gently, sweetly and joyfully.

Sterling Silver Horse Jewelry Charms

Horse jewelry represents the love and passion humans have for the regal horse. There has been a relationship between men and horses for thousands of years, at least since ancient recorded history.

Men have admired the loyalty of horse, their Speed, Power and Freedom. Sterling silver horse jewelry charms, pendants and necklaces are a great way to mind you of all that is good with horses.

Horses are symbols of freedom, power and guide to overcoming obstacles. This totem brings new journeys. The horse totem will teach you to ride in new directions and discover your own freedom and power. Equestion jewelry not only calls to mind the speed, racing and competition of horses, celebrating these wonderful qualities of horse but it call to mind all that is good about horses.

If the Horse is your totem you generally are friendly and adventerous.
The Horse is the symbol of Wind. If a horse has shown up in your life, you must ask yourself: "Am I feeling constricted? Do you need to move on or allow others to move on?"
Horse will teach you how to ride into new directions to awaken and discover your own freedom and power.

Horse Jewelry celebrates what we can learn from Horse Wisdom and Qualities:
Power
Stamina
Endurance
Faithfulness
Freedom to run free
Control of the environment
Awareness of power achieved
Interspecies communication
Expanding one’s own potential abilities
Friendship and Cooperation
Loyalty
Honor
Guardian of travelers
Protector
Guide to overcoming obstacles

Celebrate all these great qualities of the horse with horse jewelry.

Heart Necklace and Pendant

Heart Necklace

The Symbology of the Heart symbol:

The heart shape is one of the most popular jewelry charms and jewelry themes around the world. The heart shape is universally recognized as the symbol of love. The meaning of them symbol goes even farther than romantic love.

In some religions it has reference to the divine in the form of the sacred heart. In other ancient cultures it referenced physical love and fertility. No one can seem to explain how the heart shape came to be but no one disputes what it

means.

Historically the heart shaped has been traced back as far as 700 BC in Cyrene. It

has been celebrated in cultures for one reason or another ever since. The heart shaped pendant is wildly popular in heart jewelry especially the Heart necklace.

The heart pendant necklace is the quintessential jewelry gift. You can nver go wrong when you give a heart necklace to say I love you. Often the heart necklace is worn as a symbol of love for others.

Regardless of how you want to wear your heart pendant necklace you'll want to get it from this heart pendant necklace web site because of there large and unique selection.

Whether your shopping for a Valentines Day gift, anniversary or engagement gift. They have heart necklace for you.

Peace Sign Necklace Jewelry

Peace Sign Jewelry and peace Sign Necklaces almost have a 50 year history. The first peace sign used in wide spread jewelry was in the 1960's during the militant peace marches and sit ins. Often these peace sign pendant necklaces featured the peace sign as a big beaded pendant in bright rainbow colors. It would hang on a string, leather cord or some other medium far less sophisticated than sterling silver.

For some time the peace sign was seen as a symbol or rebellion or an icon of counter culture or anti establishment "stick it to the man" type of symbol.

As precious metal jewelry came into vogue the peace sign started showing up. As a new light or reflection we might say (silver and gold reflecting the light) was shed on the peace sign it started to become a main stream icon.

With time peace sign jewelry became very popular. Now you can see peace sign jewelry in the form of peace sign earrings, pendant necklaces, charms, pendants, toe rings etc.

Now with the high fashion sterling silver you could wear the peace sign to church or formal occasion as well as some casual occasion. That's the beauty and flexibility of sterling. The ulimate peace sign necklace is found at peace sign necklace.

Christian Jewelry - Celtic Cross Necklaces

Christian Jewelry

Christian jewelry goes back to the days of the first Christians persecuted under Roman rule. Where many Christians were put to death if caught or at least imprisoned. The nedd arose for Christians to be able to communicate with each other but they needed some sort of sign to identify who was Christian and could be trusted verses the persecutors.

The first specifically Christian symbol was the "Christian Fish" It has great symbolism as a fish is used throughout the New Testament which makes it symbolic but whether that was the reason or if it was easy to draw in the sand or dirt may have had something to do with the choice of symbols.

When Christians were talking to each other they would draw half of a fish with their foot or toe in the dirst or sand. If the other person drew the other half of the fish then they would know they were in friendly company. Nice story but it's two thousand years old so we are forced to take history that old with some degree of question.

For centuries the Christian fish was symbolic of Christianity. As Christianity grew and became up prevailing force in the world scene they started to conquer other people. In that process they adaped pagan symbols attaching a Christian meaning to it. Case in point was the Celtic Triquetra symbol. with its three points it became symbolic of the holy trinity and became used as a Christian symbol.

When the 900 year old Celtic culture was invaded by Christians and forces to convert, the Conquers tried to have them get rid of their pagan symbols. Thankfully they we unsuccessful. The Celts took the standard Chrisitan cross and added a Celtic style circle and placed it on the apex of the cross symbol. A compromise was reached and the Christians adopted the Celtic cross as a Christian symbol. They called it the cross of life. We now refer to it as the Celtic cross. Numerous Christian denominations world wide use the Celtic Cross as their Christian symbol of choice.

The Celtic Cross pendant is widely popular in Christian Jewelry today. The Celtic Cross Necklace is iconic in todays Christian jewelry. The Celtic Trinity knot pendant is also used in Christian jewelry as is the Christian Fish. Many other charms, pendants and necklaces whether they use a cross or biblical symbol or some historical Christian symbol make great Christian jewelry designs.

Celtic Jewelry Mandala Symbolsim

Celtic Jewelry Symbolism
The primary design behind Celtic jewelry is geometric designs and knots. Add a circle to it and the symbol becomes a mandala which is the sanskrit word for "circle. The Celtic jewelry symbols have scores of meanings some real and some implied.

The circular shape always defines the Celtic mandala symbol.

The circle is highly symbolic in many culture with ne exception to the Celtic culture. It is a symbol of perfection, eternity, unity and completeness. Modern day Celtic mandalas are very popular in the jewelry. You can place any geometric symbol inside a circle and you have yourself a Celtic mandala symbol. Most all the geometric celtic symbols have meanings, adding that circle arround it and you have additional meaning.

Affirmation Jewelry Charms and Pendants

Affirmation Jewelry:



Affirmation Jewelry consists of a collection of affirmation charms and are round and contain various word engravings ranging anywhere from Abundance and Acceptance to Hope and Faith. From Believe to Wisdom.



Affirmation jewelry is designed to be fashionable and positive. If you're familiar with Positive affirmations and positive quotes to create positive thoughts, these affirmation jewelry charms are a great way to reinforce these thoughts in a visual reminder way.






Others use them as visual reminders of virtues or qualities they want to posses. Affirmation charms are a great way to do this.



Affirmation Charms or Pendants are typically used as pendants for necklaces.

Most wear these fashionable affirmation jewelry charms are a stylish statement that speaks to the wearer and the observer.

They comes in categories like Religious, Sports, Virtues, Communication.


These affirmation pendants:

• Weight 2.6 grams of .925 Sterling Silver
• Measure about 7.8" round
• Affirmation Charms are about the size of a Quarter
• Affirmation Pendants are engraved on both sides
• They have a legal sterling silver hallmark
• Affirmation Charms are double sided which means they can flip around and you'll see the same on both sides.

Celtic, Christian and Religious Jewelry. Cross Necklace

How are Celtic Jewelry, Christian Jewelry, Religious Jewelry and Cross Necklaces related? Because they are all jewelry. That is to obvious and not the answer we're looking for. True enough they are all jewelry but they each represent an aspect of a culture. Not just any culture but a religious type of culture.

Celtic jewelry is hugely popular and is symbolic. The Celts were a pagan people yet oddly enough several of there designs are used in Christian Jewelry. Christian jewelry is obvious. Jewelry representing about one quarter of the earths population who belong to some Christian faith.

Religious jewelry is a type of a bowl which you can put alot of different things in. In this case we could be talking about Hindu jewelry, Buddhist jewelry, Jewish Jewelry and so forth. In a way you could even say Celtic jewelry fits into Religious jewelry because pagan are a religious people just not in a Christian way. The Cross Necklace really just fits into Christian jewelry. The reason to bring it up as a seperate entity is because the vast collection of types and designs of crosses reflect culture all over the world and all throughout Christianities 2000 year history.

Symbolism reflects designs the reflect various beliefs, events and aspects of our lives. Jewelry is made up of symbols and in a way jewelry are artifacts that reflect our lives.

It's an interesting concept that the jewelry says so much about you and the culture you live in. But what does that matter as long as it looks good on you and you like it.