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Something Blue – An Essential to the Well Diversified Jewelry Wardrobe

Angelina Jolie stunned audiences everywhere when she wore a pair of gorgeous earrings made from loose cut emeralds to the 81st Academy Awards.  The single event spurred a deep green trend in both fine and fashion jewelry that lasted long after the night of the awards.  While the deep green trend, which inspired jewelers to incorporate [...]

Don’t let Coinciding Occasions Short Change Your Loved Ones

You have heard it many times, usually from the person who has a birthday near a big holiday like Christmas – two occasions close together leads to fewer gifts. To be fair about it, let’s just ignore the fact that they are probably the least subjective of judges to hear from on the subject. In [...]

The Surprise Gift Never Fails

There are many times in the year that gifts are expected. Birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, Valentine’s Day and the winter holiday season are the times we all scramble for that right purchase to show people we care. The surprise gift says you care in a much deeper way. It tells the recipient that you are thinking [...]

Why do They Call it The Blues?

Everyone knows about the blues. It is a music genre that expresses how you feel when you are, well feeling blue. It is kind of curious that a feeling of being down is associated with such a brilliant and uplifting color though? You wake up, go outside on a sunshiny day and look at the [...]

Cubic Zirconia Makes Fan and Affordable Summer Fashions Possible

Last year saw a major resurgence in bright, bold, colorful jewelry on fashion runways and celebrities quickly picked up the trend.  As the weather outside starts to get warmer there have already been plenty of celebrities donning beautifully bright and bold accessories in what is sure to be one of the biggest trends of the [...]

Royal Engagement Could Spell Success for Jewelers

The ring that took the jewelry world by storm nearly three decades ago is once again causing designers to get busy.  In 1981 Prince Charles used an incredible 18 carat sapphire, set in white gold, to ask for Diana’s hand in marriage and now her son has proposed to his long time girlfriend with that [...]

September Birthstones Sparkle

Most people associate the beginning of September with the final days of Summer and the return to the regular daily grind of the school year, but the month of September also has some significance in the fashion world.  The birthstone for September is the sapphire; which is bold, beautiful and can act as the perfect [...]

It’s Not All About the Classics Anymore

What could be more beautiful on a wedding day than a perfectly flawless, classic cut diamond in a gold or platinum setting?  Well according to the recent trends in wedding jewelry, a lot of things.  More and more brides are changing things up with their engagement and wedding bands by making the diamond a co-star [...]

Alluring Blue Sapphire Is September Birthstone

September’s birthstone is the exquisite blue sapphire. Highly prized from ancient times, the name “Sapphire” derives from the Greek “sapphiros,” meaning beloved of Saturn, the ancient god of agriculture and fertility. Ancient peoples believed that the deep blue sky was  reflected from an enormous sapphire upon which the gods had placed the earth. A symbol of wisdom, [...]