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Forecast calls for Increased Sales

After too many months of poor sale to count, experts are predicting that the latter half of 2010 will show some improvement in the sales of natural diamonds.  While this is good news for ailing retailers whose business depends on diamond sales – it may not be the greatest news for shoppers.  Sure, the fact [...]

New Beginnings

It’s nearly halfway through March, and the warm weather is holding in the Northeast giving residents even more hope that Spring is all but here.  Spring is a time for new beginnings: time for beautiful weather, beautiful flowers and almost more than any other time of year – beautiful engagement and wedding rings.
The warm weather [...]

Keeping Valentines Day Special While Staying Within Your Budget

Everyone has been feeling the pressure of the economy on their purse strings. Hours have been trimmed down and salaries have been cut, both belts and budgets have been tightened as much as possible. Just because you can’t afford a premium cut, large carat weight diamond it doesn’t mean that you can’t offer your better [...]

How Are Cubic Zirconia Rated?

As beautiful as natural diamonds, lab created cubic zirconia, or cz in jewelers’ shorthand, is recognized as a high quality, inexpensive substitute for Earth’s most precious mineral gem, the diamond. Exacting laboratory standards and tightly controlled conditions allow reliable creation of cubic zirconia in a variety of classes and colors. However, a lack of universal [...]

PehnecGems Is Wholesale Seller of Loose CZ

With the holidays right around the corner, we’ve been sharing some tips on choosing the perfect cubic zirconia jewelry gift for the special someone in your life. Apparently a few folks who read our blog (and we’re happy you do!) are a little confused about what we sell. PehnecGems is an online wholesale seller of [...]

November’s Birthstone Is Golden Topaz

Perhaps as contrast to the cold and chill the typifies its place on the calendar as the precursor to winter, November’s birthstone is the warm, sunny, honey-yellow colored topaz. Part of man’s history for at least 2000 years, in ancient lore topaz was imbued with properties of protection, valor and intelligence. 
Belief in the powers of topaz to protect [...]

Unusual Color Makes Lab Created Padparadschah Highly Desirable

The Cubic Zirconia Padparadschah Oval is one of the jewelry industry’s more unusual products. It is an inexpensive lab creation of one of the world’s rarest, most expensive gems, the padparadschah sapphire. Bearing the Sinhalese name for “lotus flower,” this unusually colored sapphire is a seductive pink-orange variety of corundum that is so delicate and rare [...]