Tape Shows N.H. Mother & Kids Shoplifting Jewelry

Tape Shows N.H. Mother & Kids Shoplifting Jewelry
CBS4Boston, Boston

(CBS4) BEDFORD, N.H. Police in Bedford, New Hampshire are investigating a disturbing case of shoplifting. Surveillance tape from a consignment store shows a woman instructing her young children to grab jewelry from a display case.

Police say the three children, two boys and a girl, are all under the age of ten. Read more about Tape Shows N.H. Mother & Kids Shoplifting Jewelry

Giving Your Jewelry A Makeover Can Save Money

Giving Your Jewelry A Makeover Can Save Money
Plating Yellow Gold Jewelry With A Form Of Platinum Costs A Fraction Of New Jewelry
CBS2 Chicago, IL

(CBS) CHICAGO Did you know, you can give your old jewelry an extreme makeover without the extreme price tag?

You can make yellow gold look like platinum at a fraction of the cost of something new.

CBS 2 consumer reporter Dorothy Tucker shows how it’s done.

You can’t go wrong with a gift of jewelry, but just like clothing, jewelry styles change. And these days many woman are choosing silver, white gold, and platinum over yellow gold. Read more about Giving Your Jewelry A Makeover Can Save Money

Jewelry Artists & Crafters Unite for Katrina Victims

Jewelry Artists & Crafters Unite for Katrina Victims
Jewelry Weblog, CA

There’s more than just a revolution going on over Craft Revolution – Over 500 artist (many making jewelry and other wonderful hand-crafted accessories) have joined together to raise funds for helping victims of Hurricane Katrina. This group has even created a separate on-line shop, Crafters United, to help you shop and help at the same time. Some of the jewelry you’ll find include: Read more about Jewelry Artists & Crafters Unite for Katrina Victims

Gold dagger, tiny jewelry discovered in Bulgaria

Gold dagger, tiny jewelry discovered in Bulgaria
China Post, Taiwan
2006/8/8
SOFIA, AFP

Bulgarian archaeologists have unearthed a gold-and-platinum dagger and some 545 miniature golden pieces of Thracian jewelry dating back to the third millennium BC, the director of the National Historical Museum said Sunday.
“The golden objects were unearthed near the village of Dabene in central Bulgaria, where archaeologists have already found last year more than 15,500 similar miniature golden rings,” Bozhidar Dimitrov told AFP. Read more about Gold dagger, tiny jewelry discovered in Bulgaria

How to solve the gift-jewelry dilemma

How to solve the gift-jewelry dilemma
SCRIPPS HOWARD
Biloxi Sun Herald, USA

What do you do when someone you love gives you a gift expecting you to wear it on your wedding day, but you don’t like the gift, and you don’t want to hurt feelings?

You want to feel good about everything you wear on your wedding day, so you might gently explain to your loved one you really were looking forward to picking your own wedding jewelry.
Tell her the earrings, necklace, whatever just don’t work with your dress or hairstyle. Read more about How to solve the gift-jewelry dilemma

R. J. Graziano Natural Jewelry

R. J. Graziano Natural Jewelry
Jewelry Weblog, CA

Over the past week, along with my jewelry blogging duties, oh, and finishing the draft of my dissertation (yes, I know I’ve said this already, but, hey, it’s a big whooping deal!), I’ve also been busy putting the final touches on a new book I’ve been writing for Rockport about making mixed media jewelry.
One section in this book happens to be about using found objects and natural elements in jewelry designing. Read more about R. J. Graziano Natural Jewelry

W.D.M. jewelry store among 'coolest' in U.S.

W.D.M. jewelry store among ‘coolest’ in U.S.
DesMoinesRegister.com, IA
August 6, 2006

Josephs Jewelers’ West Glen store in West Des Moines is No. 2 on In Store magazine’s list of the 10 Coolest Jewelry Stores in America.

The jewelry industry publication devotes four pages to the Josephs store, which opened last year. The store was designed by Des Moines architect Daryl Metzger in the prairie-style architecture made popular in the early 20th century by Frank Lloyd Wright. Read more about W.D.M. jewelry store among 'coolest' in U.S.

Tooth jewelry is hot mouthwear trend

Tooth jewelry is hot mouthwear trend
BY TARA CUSLIDGE
Belleville News-Democrat, IL
The Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colo.)
Mouth grills are so last year.

The newest (and some say safer) way to display dental bling: tooth jewelry.

Unlike grills — mouthpieces that blanket the teeth like gaudily bejeweled braces — tooth jewelry is seen as a less ostentatious, less expensive and less intrusive way to sparkle when you smile.

Monika Linau, owner of Santa Barbara, Calif.-based DecoDent, sells a range of tooth crystals and jewelry that includes crosses, aliens, Nike-swoosh lookalikes, and gems in heart and star shapes. Read more about Tooth jewelry is hot mouthwear trend

Women Prefer High-Tech Gadgets Instead of Jewelry

Women Prefer High-Tech Gadgets Instead of Jewelry
Playfuls.com, Romania

Marilyn Monroe launched the world-wide appreciated tune “Diamonds are a girl’s best friend”. But that is just history, according to a new study in the US.

Women apparently have begun to think more at buying or choosing a plasma TV rather than wearing a diamond necklace.

The study that demonstrated this was conducted by US cable TV channel Oxygen Network, which is run by women. Read more about Women Prefer High-Tech Gadgets Instead of Jewelry

Om…Some Yoga Jewelry

Om…Some Yoga Jewelry Jewelry Weblog, CA I keep telling myself that I’m going to start taking yoga again. There’s a new yoga studio in the town next to me, and I fear that by the time I get my act together they will be closed. But, my fingers are crossed they manage to stay open […]