What Paris Hilton’s Jeweler May Not Know
You may have missed the breaking news last week that Paris Hilton’s $2Million engagement ring was found in a Miami club ice bucket last weekend. While dancing with her hands in the air, the giant...
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BYOJ: Bring Your Own Jewelry!
The years go by, and we find our jewelry box filled with unworn bits and pieces gathered over the years. Whether beloved jewels passed down from family or gifts and purchases made for our younger...
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The Mother of a Guide to Selecting Wedding Jewelry
A child’s wedding is a landmark event. Among the details of planning a wedding, focusing on the bride and the habit of putting themselves last, many mothers don’t fully appreciate that the...
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Boldly Blue! Creating 32 Earring Looks from one New Pair of Custom Jewelry Earrings
Laura moved quickly on a pair of “sweet” blue Sri Lankan sapphires, claiming them as hers just before I sealed the box returning them to my dealer in Thailand. I flew to Laura’s home, under an...
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Custom Jewelry Created from your Life Story
Stories give us life. Hard-wired into our being, we don’t just love stories, but need them. Telling our stories, and listening to others’, shines a light on our life path that can also help our...
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Opps, we did it again! Three Pieces. One Award-winning Custom Jewelry Design
I’m happy to receive another win in a national competition: First Place for Custom Design Distinction in the MJSA Vision Awards. This winning jewel was a full custom jewelry piece featuring colored...
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Collecting Around…
Designing is about solving problems, albeit in a graceful, useful way. Drawing pretty pieces of jewelry is just part of the show which also involves engineering, comfort and function usually with a...
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August’s new birthstone, Spinel – a rare, beautiful, “battery-powered” gem
Some of you may know the magnificent gem Spinel joined Peridot and Sardonyx as August’s birthstones this summer. Do you know Spinel? It’s about my favorite gem – at least in the top few. It’s...
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How to Create Your Story in Jewels
My Mother Bathed in sun, my mother is deep in thought. I am there in her eyes imagining her future unfolding. Peggy Jo Donahue One of my greatest rewards is working with a client to distill...
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A Natural
During the Spring of 2014, I met a wonderful person with a natural gift for gem collecting. She purchased my Petite Owl Queen pendant/brooch and thereafter, we stayed in touch. It turns out that she...
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Of Mice & Moonstones
Illuminate: to brighten with light “Beauty and nature have always supported me, and I find myself turning again and again to the metaphors the natural world provides,” says Cynthia Renée. “I...
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Reflect
Reflect: to contemplate, ponder Cynthia Renée, a trained geologist, gem hunter, and gifted jewelry artist, was inspired to create the Reflections Collection during a period of contemplation,...
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