Category: Jewelry

by Pati LaLonde | The Bay City Times

Koreen Zurschmiede needed a piece of jewelry to wear to a military ball.

Not finding just what she was looking for, she decided to make her own.

“You can’t find larger pieces or cool pieces for larger people,” the Bay City resident said.

Once she made her first piece – a bracelet that looks like crocheted metal – she began getting requests from prospective customers. Read more about Bay City woman finds the best way to make jewelry is to just Wing It …

I found this lovely, vintage inspired, and oh so romantic jewelry made by Katherine Dejarnette Babin, a designer based in New Orleans. Her on-line shop, Dejarnette, features one-of-a-kind hand-made jewelry. She writes, “Fuelled with the desire to do something I enjoyed and a genetic propensity to design (my great grandmother was a hat designer, and my Mom is an artist), I am now living out my dream … creating one-of-a-kind pieces that I myself would love to wear. Read more about Romantic jewelry by Dejarnette New Orleans …

by smacho

Jewelry designers Susan Scaparotti of “Red I Jewelry” and Gai Russo will bring their spring collections to Mitchell Sotka, 19071 Old Detroit Road in Rocky River.

Join the designers from 4-8 p.m. April 3 and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 4. Read more about National jewelry designers will host showcase at Mitchell Sotka …

The Leakey Collection’s fashionable fair trade jewelry’s made with sustainable grasses by Maasai women in Kenya.

Want to design your own eco-jewelry — without doing the actual work of making the jewelry? Browse The Leakey Collection to find pretty jewelry strands that you can twist and combine to make a choker, long necklace, bracelet, or whatever else your imagination can conjure up and create.

Sold at upscale boutiques and Origins stores, The Leakey Collection brings eco-fashion to fair trade jewelry. The company’s Zulugrass jewelry’s made of hollow grasses local to the Maasai’s region in Kenya, which are cut, dyed, and strung together with Czech glass to create pretty strands in lots of different colors. Read more about Beads of grass: Eco-jewelry …

By DIANA NEWTON dnewton@pioneerlocal.com

The heart clasp is a popular feature that Kris Peterson’s jewelry customers love, and it’s fitting because the Lindenhurst designer pours her own heart into each of her handcrafted pieces.

One of Peterson’s missions is to use her jewelry creations to help charities.

Peterson recently received permission from Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago to create a custom bracelet as a fund-raiser for the hospital. A portion of all proceeds from the bracelet will go to Children’s Memorial Hospital. Read more about Jewelry designed to help charities …

By Jeff Miller
RAPAPORT… The Las Vegas Antique Jewelry & Watch Show will be held at the Bally’s Las Vegas Hotel May 28 to June 1, 2009. The upcoming show has grown its exhibitor base 20 percent to more than 350, according to show organizers dmg world media. View Rapaport News coverage of this show in Windows Media Player format from 2008 and 2007. Read more about Las Vegas Antique Jewelry Show Moves to Bally's, Exhibitor Registration +20% …

Designer Gemstone Jewelry

In 2007, Diana Vincent was named one of the top 100 jewelry designers of the last 30 years. Simple, elegant designs, pure fluidity, and swirling shapes that evoke a sense of continuity, these are the hallmarks of Vincent’s work, establishing her as one of the country’s preeminent jewelry designers, and attracting a loyal following of international jewelry connoisseurs who eagerly await each new Diana Vincent creation to add to their collection.

Sterling Silver Colored Stone Twizzle Ring
Sterling silver and 18K yellow gold ring set with a 18mm x 10mm faceted cushion shaped blue topaz. High polished finish. 1 inch wide. Read more about Diana Vincent Jewelry …

By Christy Fantz

BOULDER, Colo. — It looks like a lavish, costly jewelry store.

Kind of like those that often are deliberately sidestepped by customers not eager to be harassed by pushy salespeople.

But Pennyweights, 1441 Pearl St., is quite the opposite.

Yes, the store offers all the good stuff: diamonds, gold, sterling silver, pearls, onyx, jade, coral, turquoise, aquamarine and various stones. Read more about Penny pinchers, rejoice: Local jewelry store Pennyweights has class and deals …

By:Frank Szivos, Contributing Writer
Call it gold rush fever as consumers cash in on the rising price of gold at their local jewelers. In a down economy, where many of your assets might be dwindling as fast as the snow on your lawn, there is a glint of good news: the value of your gold jewelry has risen-a lot.

The price of gold has climbed to all time highs, hovering close to $1,000 an ounce, and you could cash in on this. It might pay off to prospect through your jewelry boxes, bureau and desk drawers and turn your nuggets of gold into cash. Read more about Gold rush fever as consumers cash in jewelry …

Vancouver diamond retailer to donate profits from limited edition series of diamond-encrusted pins to Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA – Carats Direct has entered into a unique partnership with the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation (CBCF). Carats Direct will donate profits from a series of eight limited edition pins, designed in the shape of a breast cancer ribbon that features a rare pink diamond, to the CBCF in honour of the foundation’s ‘2020: Future Without Breast Cancer’ initiative. Carats Direct will auction the first $6,800 pin at the Nights of Hope fundraiser on April 2 in Richmond, BC with all proceeds going to the CBCF. Read more about Carats Direct Unveils Pink Diamond Jewelry Collection to Promote a Future Without Breast Cancer …