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FTC to Release New Jewelry Guides

In order to protect both retail and wholesale jewelry buyers, the US Federal Trade Commission releases new versions of its Guide for the Jewelry, Precious Metals, and Pewter industries every few years.  The guides applies to jewelry industry products including loose gemstones, their laboratory-created and imitation substitutes such as cubic zirconia, natural and cultured pearls, [...]

Jewelry Sales go Up while Loose Diamond Sales Decrease for Harry Winston

Recent studies seem to show that jewelry sales continue to grow in the United States and China.  In fact, famous international jeweler, Harry Winston Diamond Corp.  reported a 19 percent overall increase in sales last Wednesday during the first week in April. The company’s sales reached $411.9 million during the last fiscal year and operating [...]

Celebrity Jewelry Designers Add a Little Sparkle to the Jewelry World

Celebrities love to create jewelry collections!  Over the past few years, some of Hollywood’s biggest names have released jewelry lines both big and small.  From Kim Kardashian to Angelina Jolie to Kate Hudson and even Adam Lambert, stars have been helping the world to sparkle in more ways than one. While some celebrity jewelry collections are [...]

Eternal Sparkles Offers Beautiful Jewels, Many Made with Cubic Zirconia

Popular jewelry website EternalSparkles.com offers a wide selection of jewelry pieces.  From necklaces, to earrings, to bracelets, and more the site provides and awesome shopping experience to their retail customers.  Other accessories including handbags and bejeweled cell phone cases are even now available on Eternal Sparkles as well.  Customers can buy both classic and trendy [...]

Another Glamorous Jewelry Collection Up for Grabs

Jewelry collectors and enthusiasts have had the opportunity to see several world famous jewelry collections go up for auction over the last few years.  This spring, collectors have yet another big event to look forward to.  On May 14th, 2012, the collections of Lily Safra will be auctioned off at Christies in Geneva Switzerland.  The [...]

Do your Wedding Rings Clash?

One Globe and Mail reader wrote to the publication for help recently regarding a certain jewelry dilemma.  Although she had been wearing a yellow-gold colored wedding ring for years, her husband recently bought her a five stone graduated anniversary ring in white.  Understandably, she was a little hesitant to wear her new ring alongside her [...]

Tiffany and Company Celebrates 175th birthday by Creating All New Jewelry Metal

To celebrate their 175th birthday, world famous jeweler Tiffany and Co. has created a new jewelry metal.  The new metal is expected to be a hit with the companies hundreds of thousands of devoted fans and collectors throughout the world and will be used to create several of their limited edition anniversary pieces. Their new [...]

The Latest Trend in Eye Fashion – Adding a Little Twinkle to your Eye

From jewel encrusted cars, to crystal, diamond, and cubic zirconia studded back tattoos, to bejeweled cell phones, there aren’t too many things that a little bit of extra sparkle can’t enhance.  Just when you’ve think you’ve seen it all when it comes to sparkle, however, check out how one optometrist from India has given a [...]

Adding a Personal Touch to Heirloom Wedding Rings

For generations families both royal and otherwise have handed down wedding rings for their loved ones to cherish forever as their own.  Although many brides-to-be consider being gifted an heirloom ring a great honor, some women are less than thrilled to learn they have inherited a previously loved family jewel.  Rather than to go the literally [...]

Thieves Steal Cubic Zirconia Rings from Minneapolis Area Jewelry Store

Last Month thieves who broke into Minneapolis area jewelry store away with a nice selection of cubic zirconia and silver jewelry.  The likely experienced criminals broke into Albers Jewelry store on Wayzata Boulevard in Long Lake Minnesota during the early morning hours of February 3rd and made off with several prong set engagement rings as [...]