Jewellery, especially handmade jewellery, should be taken care of properly and handled with care to maintain its quality and beauty for years to come.

Here are a few tips:

• Try not to wear your jewellery in the shower.
  
  
• Try not wear delicate jewellery to sleep
  
  
• Keep pearls away from soaps and shampoos, which means do not wear your pearl ring to wash dishes!
  
  
• Put away your jewellery, especially sterling silver jewellery into the box when you are not wearing it. The more sterling silver is exposed to the air, the faster it will tarnish!
  
  
• Use a polishing cloth to give sterling silver a good wipe every so often.
  
  
• If sterling silver has tarnished, you could use a polishing cloth or dip the piece in a chemical solution made especially for cleaning sterling silver