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Contrary to popular belief, family heirlooms aren’t always highly valuable pieces–at least not monetarily. They hold value because of their sentimental quality; they contain personal value.

So what are the most popular family heirlooms?(You can guess number 1!)

1. Jewelry
2. Stories
3. Furniture
4. Quilts
5. Weapons
6. Letters and Diaries
7. Photos
8. Recipes
9. Clocks
10. Musical Instruments

The Family Curator found that there are missing items from this list:

Top 15 Family Heirlooms

1. Bibles
2. Photos, Albums and Scrapbooks
3. Letters, Diaries, Datebooks
4. Clocks and Watches
5. Jewelry
6. Furniture
7. China and Silver
8. Weapons
9. Military Relics
10. Quilts and Samplers
11. Recipes
12. Clothing
13. Dolls and Toys
14. Musical Instruments
15. Christmas Decorations

 

 

Stumbling over this article in JCK this am, I had to do a double take. What a unique ring with a quirky yet romantic feel to it! It’s a great example of the many creative directions a ring can take.

If you’re looking for a particular ring with your own stamp of creativity on it, contact us. Let’s create your own private masterpiece:

The name Belle has never been more wonderfully exemplified than in this ring from Alexandra Alberta. With its fairytale color combination, which pairs a peachy pink tourmaline with amethyst in a setting that dangles freely at the center like colorful charms, the ring is the epitome of pretty. It has a hammered finish in satiny 18k rose gold-plate over sterling silver; the texture adds an interesting element without overdoing it.

The ring is from Alexandra’s Bohemia collection, “inspired by various places and spirits around the world.”

Check out Alexandra Alberta’s other creations.

Source: JCK

In this fascinating piece, we discover that humans aren’t the only beings to appreciate adornment.

A chimpanzee named Julie decided she’d separate herself from her fellow chimps by making her own earrings…out of grass.

Over in Zambia there’s a chimpanzee named Julie who has launched her own line of jewelry.

And it’s a howling success. Now just about everybody wants a piece of it.

Julie’s innovation came to the attention of scientists a few years ago when Edwin van Leeuwen of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in The Netherlands noticed something different about Julie.

She wandered around Zambia’s Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage Trust sanctuary with a single blade of grass hanging from one ear. It wasn’t an accident, it’s not as though a piece of grass latched onto her ear as she stumbled through the tropics.

She wore it all the time. So if it fell out, she had to replace it. Whether she was playing, grooming, sleeping or doing whatever chimps do in the jungle, she had that blade of grass hanging from one ear.

That alone is pretty surprising, but what followed next was really “baffling,” van Leeuwen said in an email.

A short time after Julie was noticed with her ear’s new appendage, her son Jack was observed wearing a blade of grass, hanging from one ear. Soon Julie’s friends Kathy, Miracle and Val, followed suit.

Source: ABC News

 

If you think about it, people have been wearing teeth and bones as adornment for a long, long time–pretty much since civilization began. So is it so strange to wear your child’s baby tooth on a chain? Well, we won’t decide for you but you can take a look at the results!

 

Jewellery decorated with children’s milk teeth has been doing big business on Etsy recently, as proud parents search for attention-grabbing mementoes – after all lockets containing pictures of your loved ones are so last year!

One seller, Jackie Kaufman of Rock My World Inc, said: “I think they are bought as a unique way to remember your child at a certain age for people that want a unique eye-catching way to do it. They really start a conversation and most people love them or hate them, it is a personal preference.”

Baby tooth jewellery features among the growing trends for 2014 identified by US website BabyCenter from the posts on their message boards.

Source: ParentingDish

Beautiful earrings don’t count for much if you can’t see them. Often earrings (especially studs) can be buried in a sea of hair, with only you appreciating their hidden beauty.

Here are a few simple hairstyle tricks to keep in mind when you want your earrings to stand out.

We don’t talk about opal nearly enough. But that doesn’t mean we don’t offer up the utmost respect to its magical and varied iridescence that seems to be in a constant state of colorful change.

Here are some simply stunning opal pieces seen at Jewelry Week in Las Vegas several weeks ago, thanks to JCK.

Small Circle Aladdin earrings in 18k gold with pink opals and 0.04 ct. t.w. diamonds, $1,390; Jamie Wolf

Lushness earrings in 18k yellow gold with opal and 2.5 cts. t.w. diamonds, $7,500; Tatiana Berenguer

Earrings in 18k gold with 18.57 cts. t.w. Australian opal doublets with 1.13 cts. t.w. diamonds, $5,600; Rina Limor at LUXE Intelligence

Lushness earrings in 18k yellow gold with opal and 2.5 cts. t.w. diamonds, $7,500; Tatiana Berenguer

Earrings with huggie hoops in 18k gold and 21.17 cts. t.w. Paraiba, 15 cts. t.w. opals, and 0.78 ct. t.w. diamonds, $38,200; Erica Courtney

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