Happy Stories From our customers

Rendering color of pink center stone not indicative of actual stone. Video shows our Radiance® Barely Pink moissanite in full sun as well as indirect sun.

Before you squeal too loudly, understand this: live insect jewelry has been around a long time! The Egyptians were one of the early adopters, wearing scarab beetles into battle. The Giant Madagascar Hissing Cockroach and the Mexican Maquech Beetle have also been used in jewelry.

Even during the prim and proper Victorian era in Britain, jewelry lovers often sported large, vividly colored beetles attached to their clothing by tiny gold chains (and yes,  these creepy crawlers were often live).

So while you might pass on wearing a Giant Madagascar Hissing Cockroach to your next night out on the town, remember: you would have been the hit of the party just a few hundred years ago.

Scarab of Hatnefer, ca. 1473 B.C.
Egyptian, New Kingdom
Glazed steatite
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1936 (36.3.5)

It stands to reason that when it comes to fashion, there’s a practical element. Humans wear clothing and jewelry not simply to look good but to stay warm and protected. In prehistoric times, jewelry was used as a form of protection and adornment. Later, jewelry came to reflect status.

Jewelry were commonly created from the materials humans had at their disposal. If a tribe of people lived by the ocean, for example, one could surmise that shells, fishbones and colored pebbles would be used to create jewelry.

Inland ornament material would include matter used from animals that had been killed for food, like antlers, tusks and animal bones.

Regardless of the material, ancient jewelry provides us a keen insight into the era from which they came, not only the location but the type of humans imprinting their creativity, their expression and their stories.

Hi Margie,
I just wanted to thank you again for helping create the most beautiful ring I’ve ever seen! And the new pictures and videos you all posted are stunning! Now I just have to head to AZ in a couple days to hand her over to J so that he can come up with an official proposal. After that, she is NEVER leaving my finger. You are incredible!
SB.