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Storing your jewelry is always a challenge. Jewelry boxes can encourage messiness (who hasn’t had to untangle necklaces) or simply forgetfulness (out of sight jewelry means out of mind). So when we stumbled across this article in the Star Telegram, we couldn’t help but notice not only how practical it is but how it’s an eco-friendly upcycling project that just about anyone can do (meaning you don’t have to be that crafty!).

A new coat of paint — or two — turns this old tool drawer into a handy makeup and jewelry organizer. | Clare Miers Special to the Star-Telegram

We can’t say we’re surprised but we are certainly pleased. Its time that these viable, high quality lab-made diamonds are given their props. Not only are they an eco-friendly gem choice but the quality is equivalent to that of a natural, mined diamond.

At the recent JCK tradeshow in Las Vegas, lab grown diamonds clearly had their place in the spotlight.

Now that millennials are becoming more sophisticated consumers, the time for lab-grown gemstones has clearly arrived. From Pure Grown Diamonds to Charles & Colvard Created Moissanite, the selection of lab-grown products has begun to change the marketplace. It’s no longer a matter of if or when they will become sought after, rather, it’s by whom and how. At the Charles & Colvard booth at the recent JCK Las Vegas show, independent jewelers, e-commerce buyers, and designers were three-deep to view the new colorless moissanite set to debut this fall.

Forever Brilliant Round Brilliant Moissanite Martini Style Earrings Forever Brilliant round moissanite stud earrings featuring low profile three prong martini settings. Includes the Charles & Colvard Certificate of Authenticity and Limited Warranty.

Aren’t you still reeling from last night’s World Cup Soccer game? Nail-biting excitement. And beaming pride for our country.

U – S – A! 

U – S – A!

U – S – A!

Alex Morgan, a pivotal member of the team, is also a bit of fashionista so we’re highlighting some of her fashion and jewelry choices in honor of their smashing victory.

Who is Alex Morgan? According to Wikipedia:

Alex Morgan, is an American soccer player and Olympic gold medalist. She is a forward for the Portland Thorns FC of the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) and for the United States women’s national soccer team. At age 22, she was the youngest player on the national team at the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup. In the 2012 London Olympics she scored the game-winning goal in the 123rd minute of the semifinal game against Canada.

At Fashion Week.

The 2013 ESPY Awards Photo credit: Apega / WENN

U.S Soccer player Alex Morgan attends lia sophia celebrates “Social Fashion” and debuts “boudika” Red Carpet Collection at Empire Hotel on September 12, 2011 in New York City.

Alex Morgan kisses her gold medal after the United States beat Japan by a score of 2-1.

 

 

While we customize all kinds of jewelry, this might go beyond the scope of our team.

Now you can have a customized pendant designed from your particular DNA. I’m not sure how you would test it for accuracy…but it sure is an interesting concept.

According to 10x:

British designer Alexander Davis, creates DNA pendants that are unique to each wearer and inspired by his degree in biochemistry.

When a DNA pendant is commissioned by a client, they take a blood sample from the wearer and send it to a lab for DNA sequencing, Davis told me over email. They then find an area of their DNA that is likely to contain some unique code on which they can model the pendant.

The combination of gemstones on the necklace corresponds to a unique part of that sequence, representing their four-letter DNA code.

This particular one pictured here is made in platinum and set with diamonds, sapphires, and amethyst and priced from £15,000 (roughly $23,800).

Shown with a 1 1/4ct center stone. Click here for additional info.

Jewelry has becomes so much more than a mere adornment over the last decade. Smart jewelry can tell you your heart rate or alert you of an email or help you find your way home, among a million other duties. But one woman dared to create a different kind of smart jewelry, made initially to cool down menopausal women but hitting a much bigger audience.

According to Connie Sherman of Hot Girl Pearls:

“I went to the store and bought a bag of those colorful plastic ice cubes — the kind that don’t melt in your drink. They’re filled with water and you just stick them in the freezer and they stay cold for hours. I taped them to a string and wrapped them around my neck and I knew, at that moment, I was on to something.”

“They kept the chill for about 45 minutes. And I knew if I could find a way to make an attractive necklace that worked in the same way, there were lots of women who would want one. I couldn’t be the only one schvitzing her way through menopause.”

But it wasn’t just women who were dealing with menopause who were logging on to Connie’s website. It was women who were undergoing chemotherapy, others who had migraines, even women who had lupus and multiple sclerosis — things she’d never considered.

Source: Huffington Post