Cowboy’s Sweetheart Jewelry Wins National Award

18 August 2010

Western jewelry designer Amy Fortunato of Cowboy’s Sweetheart rounded up top honors in the 2010 Jewelry Design Business Development Grant competition. Her prize package includes $6,000 in start-up cash and jewelry supplies. The annual award is sponsored by jewelry supply wholesaler Halstead Bead, Inc. The grant is awarded to a new jeweler in the bridge [...]

Halia Beads

05 April 2010

I came across this great new bead jewelry line a while back, Halia. With the beads and beading simply exploding over the last couple of years, thank you Pandora, I wasn’t terribly surprised to a slightly more elegant bead jewelry line to appear. Halia offers the fairly usual assortment of silver charms and cable bracelets, [...]

Enaminals : Enameled Animal Jewelry from Animal Charms

30 March 2010

Animal Charms recently announced a new line of animal jewelry, Enaminals. Enaminals are enameled animal jewelry, mostly charms and pendants. Everything from simple sterling silver charms with light enameling to our favorite hand enameled sterling silver dog charms. One of the great things about Animal Charms is that they donate a percentage of every sale [...]

Time to Sell Gold

28 December 2009

Are you still clinging to your gold investments? It’s time to seriously consider dumping them. The writing is on the wall. That's my opinion. But let's take a closer look at what needs to happen...

Gold Prices-Greed and Manipulation?

16 November 2009

Gold is soaring to historic highs. I have long suggested a ‘false demand’ fueled by speculation, self interest, and the powerful motivating factor called greed, has been and will the driving force behind the price of gold. We saw the very same motivators drive Wall Street… until the walls came tumbling down because the underlying [...]

Kameleon Jewelry

08 November 2009

Kameleon Jewelry is a new line of interchangeable sterling silver jewelry. Much like Troll or Pandora beads, you purchase a basic ring, pendant, bracelet or earrings, and then you buy the jewel pops that you like. When you want to change up your jewelry, just pop out the jewel pops and put in a new [...]

32ct Annenberg Diamond Sells for $240k/ct.

24 October 2009

The 32.01 carat, D color, flawless diamond diamond shattered previous records when it sold at Christie’s auction house for over $7.7 million to an anonymous bidder. Originally estimated to sell for around $5 million, the flawless diamond set a new per carat record says the auction house. Rahul Kadakia, head of jewelry at Christie’s New [...]

Carved hearts from Barbara Westwood

04 February 2008

I stumbled across these cool hearts from Barbara Westwood reading the latest issue of JCK. Poised to be the perfect Valentine’s Day gift, these hearts are set in 18k yellow gold with a diamond slide and a fabulous handmade Italian chain. The blue chalcedony is priced at $14,000 and the black onyx with druse quartz [...]

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Jewelry News

Win Free Jewelry from Fred Meyer

Posted on 03 December 2010

Fred Meyer is giving away a piece of jewelry from PAWsitively Yours. All you need to do is register!

Diamond News

32ct Annenberg Diamond Sells for $240k/ct.

Posted on 24 October 2009

The 32.01 carat, D color, flawless diamond diamond shattered previous records when it sold at Christie’s auction house for over $7.7 million to an anonymous bidder. Originally estimated to sell for around $5 million, the flawless diamond set a new per carat record says the auction house. Rahul Kadakia, head of jewelry at Christie’s New [...]

Watch News

TV remote control watch

Posted on 30 January 2008

James Bond look out! The guys over at Gear Live spotted this cool, and cheap, watch from Vavolo. The TV remote control watch is a standard digital watch with time, alarm, stopwatch and time zones. But it gets cool when you start using the remote control features. Vavolo claims is works at distances of up [...]

Beads

Halia Beads

Posted on 05 April 2010

I came across this great new bead jewelry line a while back, Halia. With the beads and beading simply exploding over the last couple of years, thank you Pandora, I wasn’t terribly surprised to a slightly more elegant bead jewelry line to appear. Halia offers the fairly usual assortment of silver charms and cable bracelets, [...]

Bedazzled

iPhone Bling

Posted on 23 January 2008

The Bedazzler craze continues on with the new iPhone case from Case-mate. 42 diamonds (3.5 carats) in VVS1 H diamonds are embedded in “rare” gold carbon fiber leather. Only $20k, but hey, it comes with free shipping..

Celebrity Jewelry

Want A Little Twilight In Your Engagement Ring?

Posted on 04 May 2010

Direct from Twilight and Infinite Jewelry Co., you can now order Bella’s engagement ring for your very own. Designed in co-operation between Stephanie Meyer and Infinite Jewelry Company, you can get the ring worn by Bella in the next installment of Twilight. Set with 13 diamonds totaling just over 1ct and available in 14k white [...]

Diamond Mining

Crater of Diamonds keeps cranking them out

Posted on 06 November 2007

Chad Johnson, who moved to Murfreesboro in February, nearly tossed a 4.38 carat, tea colored diamond. Johnson stowed his equipment after a weekend of sifting for diamonds and didn’t notice the cube shaped diamond until Monday. The diamond, making approximately 80 that he has found since moving to Arkansas, is the second largest found this [...]

Industry News

Another Bidder Joins War For Zale’s

Posted on 15 April 2010

Jewelry chain Zale Corp has another bidder for their struggling operation. Centerbridge Partners has joined the bidding for a stake in the largest jewelry store operator in North America. Zale stock prices have dropped from nearly $31 per share in 2008 to just $3.42 per share today. Announcement of the potential investors seems to have [...]

Lost and Found

$17,000 Diamond Ring Among Donations to Goodwill

Posted on 30 April 2010

The Harrisburg, PA. Goodwill distribution center found a surprise while sorting through recent jewelry donations. A platinum and diamond ring appraised at $17,600. Barry Landis, a retired jeweler who helps at Goodwill by sorting through donated jewelry, said that what caught his eye was the filigree swirls on the band. While 90% of the jewelry [...]

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