Archive | December, 2007

Fudge! I lost my diamond!

Posted on 30 December 2007

Well, at least I hope that’s the word I hope Linda used when she realized that she may have added her mother’s ring to a batch of fudge she made for bake sale.
Apparently Linda Vancel, from West Lafayette (go Boilers!), IN, took the ring off while making a batch of fudge and when she was [...]

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Million dollar ice cream

Posted on 19 December 2007

I can’t believe I missed this one. It did happen before I started the blog, so I’ll blame that for now, but this is a very cool way to raise money for the Big Brothers Big Sisters.
Bruster’s waffle cone masterpiece was created by diamond manufacturer, Lazare Kaplan International Inc., and consists of nearly 20 troy [...]

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Invaders, from the outer space

Posted on 17 December 2007

As a child of the ’80s I saw these rings and the first thing that came to mind was, COOL!!!
All I really know about  them is that they are made in sterling, with rhodium plating, and they are made in Italy. After that things get a little hazy, sort of like standing in an arcade [...]

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1000 and counting

Posted on 13 December 2007

The Crater of Diamonds State Park produced its 1000′th diamond for the year when Denis Tyrrell found a rectangular, 3.82ct, light brown diamond. It marks the 131st diamond he has found in the nine months he has spent digging at the park.
This is the first time that the park has produced 1000 diamonds in a [...]

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It’s more than just a jewelry box

Posted on 12 December 2007

For the girl that has everything, how about a ring box the reminds her of everything leading up to her ring? Euri Inc. has developed a new ring box, the Euricase. The Euricase comes with a built-in 2 inch LCD display screen that can be loaded with 500 pictures or up to 60 minutes [...]

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Kickbars – you’re kidding, right?

Posted on 09 December 2007

Ok, I understand that jewelry is meant to be fun, and an accessory that no one “really” needs. But come on, 14k gold and diamonds bars to put on your shoe laces on your latest pair of K-Swiss Kicks?
Kickbars from www.kickbars.com come in a variety of colors so that you can color co-ordinate your foot [...]

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Diamonds in the rough

Posted on 05 December 2007

I’ve always loved deconstruction and raw materials. It’s a hold over from my architecture days when it was important to me to let wood be wood, and rock be rock. So it’s no real surprise that when I saw Todd Reed’s jewelry I instantly fell in love with it.
Todd started using raw diamond cubes as [...]

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Sharon share alike

Posted on 04 December 2007

Sharon Osborne, caught up in the spirit of the moment tossed a $60,000 diamond ring, from her own finger, in to a crowd at a fundraiser for the Elton John Aids Foundation as part of the 20th anniversary of World Aids Day at London’s G-A-Y club.
The host had already thrown her red Aids awareness [...]

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