Happy Stories From our customers

I couldn’t help but think, as I reviewed these 50 unique engagement rings, that the people who choose them are the iconoclastic type. They march (up the aisle) to the beat of a different drummer. If you’re that out-of-the-box type, we can custom design a distinctive, unusual ring especially designed for your free spirit.

Here are a few. Check out the rest here.

What a pleasure to see this delicate Asian influence in jewelry trends this year. Check out some popular pieces featured in Jennifer Heebner’s column in JCK. And remember, if a piece strikes your fancy, we can personalize it and recreate it for a fraction of the cost.

Asian influences like origami folds, flowers, and kimono silhouettes were strong on Spring 2013 runways, meaning that jewelers will want to accessorize the looks with complimentary pieces. Think long tassel necklaces or earrings, bamboo and/or cherry blossom themes, jade, Chinese characters, and more. And, don’t rule out homage to the animal of the year per the Chinese calendar: snakes for 2013, and even dragons from 2012 still feel current.

Cherry Blossom earrings in 14k gold with pink enamel, $260; Pandora

Chandi Chain earrings in silver with green onyx and curb chain loop tassels, $395; Kir Collection

Wide leather bracelet with silver Dragon motif ornament, $510; Samuel B. Collection

Cherry Blossom earrings in silver with 24k gold backs and 1.92 cts. t.w. pink tourmaline, $550; American Estate

See more here.

Apparently the only thing pythons and pendants have in common is one man, who found a special piece of jewelry while python hunting in the Everglades. Check out this amazing story:

Like most people who signed up for Florida’s official Burmese python hunt last winter, Mark Rubinstein slogged a couple times through the Everglades without ever seeing one of the elusive snakes.

Something else caught his eye, though.

In the dirt along a levee, about 10 miles deep into the wetlands, Rubinstein found a gold pendant, with sapphires forming a cross inside a circle of diamonds. One edge of the penny-sized medallion was melted and misshapen.

It may have fallen from the sky. Rubinstein was hunting near the crash sites of two airplanes that went down in the same area: Eastern Flight 401, a New York flight that crashed as it prepared to land in Miami in 1972, and ValuJet Flight 592, a 1996 flight to Atlanta that caught fire shortly after takeoff and plummeted into the remote swamps west of Miami.

Rubinstein hopes to return the jewelry to its rightful owner.

“We’ve got to get this back to the family, if we can,” he said last week.

All 104 passengers and five crew members aboard the ValuJet flight died. The Eastern flight carried 163 passengers and 13 crew members. Seventy-seven people survived, thanks in part to a Homestead man who was catching frogs from his airboat that night. He pulled survivors onto his airboat and turned his headlamp skyward so rescue helicopters could find the crash.

Read more about this amazing story.

“Diamonds will survive anything, and sapphires will, too.”

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