Following numerous requests from our customers, Avalaya team has been working hard (as usual) for the past few weeks in preparation of the Brooches Guide.
Thanks to all our customers, friends, stylists, photographers, web development team and everyone else who helped in preparation of this guide. We tried to include as much information as we could collect, but it is no way could be exhaustive. It is not possible to cover all ideas on how and where to wear brooches as fashion is a moving thing and everyone creates their own style by placing brooches in an unusual place and in unusual way.
At any rate, this guide is a good starting point if you were living on the Moon and do not know what brooches are and also if you are the one who has a small collection of brooches already then you will find some useful tips on how else one could wear a brooch.
Our brooch guide is not a "signed and sealed" project, we are mostly welcome your input on what it is possible to do with a brooch. You have an opportunity to help a lot of other people with your indispensable experience. The more unusual, the more we are interested to hear from you. Please leave a comment below with your suggestion, or use our "contact us" form. Please also tell us if you want your name to be included along with your published suggestion.

So let us now present you our BROOCHES GUIDE

With this many sunny days you really start to believe that spring has finally arrived. It is still pretty chilly out there, but it's getting warmer every day which shouldn't fail to bring a smile on your face!

To help you keep that smile for longer, Avalaya has brought a new collection of enamel pendants. They come in variety of bright colours with simple shapes - a perfect match for spring and your elevated mood.

Don't forget - you can explore every detail of any pendant with up to 20(!) pictures per product, and if that is not enough - you can open each image on your full screen!
On any product page: roll your mouse over the thumbnail to change the main view picture or click to open it on full screen.

So what have you prepared to your very Special Valentine?

You want your Valentine to feel special and loved. This is probably not a good time to give an overly practical gift, a more romantic and sentimental approach is required. Try to choose something that your partner will cherish for the years to come. It needn't be expensive, just thoughtful and straight from the heart.
Avalaya jewellery makes perfect sense as a Valentine's gift for any budget: from the inexpensive
Silver-Tone Sequin Heart Drop Earrings
to the exclusive
Jet Black Multifaceted Plastic Heart Gold Tone Long Costume Pendant

But remember - nothing is valued more than your attention - regardless of your gifts.

Tip: If you are the one who would like to receive something from our jewellery collection, 'gently' suggest your pick to your Valentine (perhaps by using "Email a friend" feature on the product pages).

We were busy since the beginning of this summer with the re-designing our website. Avalaya always listens to customer suggestions and after a while it become obvious that a complete overhaul is required to increase its usability and 'friendliness'. Here are just a few highlights:

- All peripheral colours on our website are now shades of grey so that you can judge the colours from the product images better.
- The new jewellery search allows you to select the most important combination of properties and narrow down to the exact few items you were looking for. For example, in just 3 clicks you can easily select all Black -> Earrings -> under £10 pounds.
- There are even more details available now for each product besides just the basic characteristics.
- In addition to our email support we now offer telephone support also.

There are loads of other changes also, but we won't bore you anymore with the 'techy talk' and would like to invite you to explore the new Avalaya.com yourselves. We hope that you find the new layout is more intuitive and easier to use.

The Avalaya team.

Did you know that every time you click on a product to see it's details, an entry is recorded in the "recently viewed list". It is quite handy when you've spent some time on the site browsing many products and want to go back to the one that caught your eye before. If you really like the item it makes sense to save it into the "wish list" and then log into your account to save your wish list permanently.
To save your favourite ones in the "wish list" just click on the "add to w. list" button next to the item. You also can add the item straight to your shopping cart by clicking on the "add to cart" button.
Once you leave the site or after some time of inactivity (around 20 minutes) your "recently viewed products" list will be cleared.