Happy Stories From our customers

Hi Joe,
L just brought me the ring and I love it. It’s exactly what I had in mind. Thanks so much for working with us on it….I really appreciate it.
See you soon.
Best Wishes,
L

“Got the ring!  I love it!  It looks amazing!!!!
Thanks again!”

Beth, WOW, I just got my ring, opened the box and OMG! I put it on and it is *stunning*. Happy early Birthday to me! LOL I am so thankful to you and your jeweler. It is exactly what I wanted and what a beauty. I was hoping that the ring was not to large and stand up to high! It is perfect! What a wonderful experience I had with you and your company. It was hard for me to find someone that dealt with Moissanite. I live in a small town in Idaho and asked around many jewelry stores. A couple of stores even tried to talk me into a diamond. I was so discouraged and thought about giving up! I browsed the internet off and on for many months. I inquired at many sites. Then I met you. You made me feel comfortable from the start of the transaction. Without hesitation, you had to see the ring first, which the other companies just quoted me sight unseen. You responded quickly. After a couple of days communicating I decided to go with you and your company. You continued to communicate with me during the process making me feel good about my decision. I can’t stop looking at it! Again, I want to thank you, thank you, thank you! It is exactly what I wanted. It is going to be a “Show Off” piece for some time to come! :)

G. S.

Joe-

I received the necklace in perfect condition…..I absolutely love it!!!!!  You created my vision to a “T”.  The stones look so much larger in the setting, and I love the floating chain effect….it makes it lay perfectly.  An exquisite piece I can either dress up or down for any occasion.  Thank you for listening to my likes, keeping it within my budget, and taking the extra time to do this custom piece via internet.

You’re the best!!!

We often speak of creating jewelry from the heart at our studio. That is our message, our overriding message of guidance, as we handcraft and custom design jewelry for our clients. This story is a perfect example of jewelry from the heart and soul. It speaks of one young girl’s immense struggles and how a piece of jewelry symbolizes her strength, resilience and courage:

When Grace Freeman was eight months old, civil war forced her family, which included her mother and three siblings, to flee their native Liberia and resettle in a camp in Ghana that was home to some 47,000 refugees.

Grace wanted to go to school but it wasn’t free and her family had no money to send her. So they struck up a deal with a local woman: Grace could live with her and go to school but, in return, would have to do all of the housework.

The 7-year-old left her entire family behind in the refugee camp to move in with this woman who promised her an education. It wasn’t too long after, however, that Grace discovered she essentially had been sold into slavery.

She never got to attend school and, instead, was awakened as early as 3 a.m. to do a list of chores that it would take a normal adult a week to complete. She was beaten regularly.

One day 11 years later, an 18-year-old Grace was outside working her way through a pile of laundry when she heard a voice intoning her name, telling her, “Grace, go inside.” Though she knew she risked a beating by leaving her work, the internal guidance was too strong to ignore.

She trusted her instincts and entered the house, only to find her United Nations identification card on the table, documents her captor had hidden years earlier in order to claim Grace was her daughter and keep her as a slave.

Grace snatched up the documents and ran to a neighbor’s house, begging the neighbor to hide them for her until she escaped. This act of bravery resulted in a beating that almost ended Grace’s life.

But it also marked a new beginning.

Read more here.

 

The Strongheart Fellowship Program, a non-profit that gives young people who have been displaced or orphaned by conflict a safe place to heal, a chance to get an education and, hopefully, return to their communities to become leaders. As part of the program, all participants design a product or a service. Grace, along with fellow Strongheart Lovetta, chose to create a piece of jewelry that is part  self-expression, part fund-raiser.

For more information on becoming involved with The Strongheart Fellowship Program, contact Beth Anne at eab@elizabethannebonanno.com or call (646) 528-8299.

If committing to a real ink tattoo is a little too intimidating, then consider these gold alternatives. Produced by high-tech company Genefinity, these temporary tattoos adhere to skin. They’re pretty amazing. Thanks to 10x for this discover.

Italian engineers have come up with an alternative way to wear gold, silver and other metals: as temporary tattoos adhered to the skin.

Produced by the high-tech company Genefinity, Gold Sin Jewels are the product of scientific research in nano-tech materials. Available in different patterns, the tattoos last between three and seven days–and because they’re stuck to you, it’s hard to misplace or lose them. Impossible, actually.

So how do the tattoos work? Genefinity calls it the “Ghost” process, and it involves fixing thin films of gold, silver, platinum and palladium to flexible substrates, or surfaces on which organisms live.

Gold Sin Jewels are made on a paper support that functions with hydro-soluble molecules, such as a think 24-karat gold film. A bio-compatible resin layer allows the film to adhere to skin, and keeps it safe, waterproof and lasting.

Read more.