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A quote comment from an inquiry this morning.

I am IN LOVE with moissanite!!!!!!!!!!!! More so then diamonds. I have enough of those and you cannot tell the difference. The sparkle is better the clarity is better……..

Buying an engagement ring in this economy can be a daunting process. You want to make sure the engagement ring really speaks to her…affordably! Fortunately, with moissanite and other diamond alternatives, you can bring a smile to your fiancee’s face that will last a lifetime.

If you don’t know much about moissanite, please take a moment to check out our information page. Moissanite engagement rings have become increasingly popular over the years.

Put aside all of your concerns about diamond alternatives – they’ve come a long way baby! Moissanite is a smart diamond alternative for people in the know – including celebrities who think it’s a “greener” choice because its not mined like diamonds, but lab produced. And our moissanite comes directly from Charles & Colvard, the top producers of moissanite in the country.

Moissanite engagement rings can be custom designed to fit your fiancee’s personality and your love. You can decide on the materials and the overall look of the piece and we’ll walk you through the process step-by-step, simply and easily. Bridal ring building shows that you care enough to give your engagement ring a personal touch.

If it’s time to pop the question, we can make sure you do it affordably, smartly and beautifully!

Classic Tiffany Style Round Moissanite Solitaire

Round Tiffany style solitaire engagement ring with Charles and Colvard created moissanite.

The countdown is on. If you haven’t gotten a gift, we can have the perfect gift in your hand just in the nick of time.

If budget is an issue, not to worry. We have diamond alternatives like moissanite at a great price. We also have our popular Keys of Love pendants guaranteed to please the most discerning woman.

In honor of Valentine’s Day, here are a few quotes from Quote Garden to inspire you:

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!  ~Thomas Hood

When love is not madness, it is not love.  ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee.  ~English saying used on poesy rings

Loving is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.  ~Albert Einstein

I don’t understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine’s Day.  When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon.  ~Author Unknown

I claim there ain’t
Another Saint
As great as Valentine.
~Ogden Nash

Trip over love, you can get up.  Fall in love and you fall forever.  ~Author Unknown

Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.  ~Author Unknown

A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
~Author Unknown

We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.  ~Author Unknown

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.  ~William Shakespeare

kisses are a better fate
than wisdom.
~e.e. cummings

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?  ~Author Unknown

Who, being loved, is poor?  ~Oscar Wilde

In melody divine,
My heart it beats to rapturous love,
I long to call you mine.
~Author Unknown

Grow old with me!  The best is yet to be.  ~Robert Browning

Without love, what are we worth?  Eighty-nine cents!  Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.  ~M*A*S*H, Hawkeye

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.  ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren’t even there before.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.  ~Plato

True love stories never have endings.  ~Richard Bach

Style 10349

Key of Love Necklace with Hearts and Pave Set Stones

“Key of Love” key necklace with hearts and pave set stones. For a larger view click here.

.12ct version measures 35mm tall
Other sizes available, call for info

Valentine’s day is just around the corner. If you haven’t gotten that certain someone that certain something, the time to act is now. We understand that Valentine’s Day can be filled with a good deal of pressure. But most of the pressure is about getting the right gift.

Our Keys of Love necklaces are guaranteed to please that special someone. And I’m not just saying that. One of our most important goals at Joseph Schubach Jewelers is choosing items that have a classic appeal. Our Keys of Love are Tiffany-inspired and extremely popular right now.

Symbolically, a Key of Love sends a special message that says, “We share something that is strictly ours. By wearing this key, you’ll remember what we have.”

On top of that, we have a Key of Love for every budget. That’s because you can choose the materials, whether it’s moissanite or diamonds or other diamond alternatives.

Take a look at our Gallery and find a key that matches your sweetheart. Why take chances this holiday? Play it safe and play it sweetly!

As we saw at this 2010 Grammy award ceremony, people were ready to crawl out of the economy shell and be a little flashier.

None was this more evident than Beyonce’s hoop earrings (that must have felt like quite a relief to take off at the end of the evening):

Here’s what Sparkle Like the Stars had to say about the top jewelry looks for the evening:

1. Beyonce took home six Grammy Awards, including a Grammy for Record of the Year, and she accessorized her golden goodie with some killer diamond hoop earrings that went with her sequined silver dress. We love the hoops, though we’re sure that the critics will have a thing or two to say about the flashy frock.

2. Carrie Underwood wore a gorgeous gold gown for her performance during the show, and she accented the glamorous dress with pitch-perfect diamond jewelry. Our favorite piece was her glimmering diamond bracelet with a swirling design- though her engagement ring from hockey player Mike Fisher was a close second.

3. Sheryl Crow paired her simple brown dress with some gorgeous gold jewelry. The actress piled on the gold bangle bracelets on her left wrist that matched her large, golden pendant earrings. To balance the look Crow wore an emerald cocktail ring on her right hand.

The styles at the Grammys this year were decidedly a little more daring than last year, hopefully a small sign that our economic woes are slowly lifting and celebrities feel a little more comfortable “blinging” out.

Jewelry choice were chunkier and bolder, some with a decidedly futuristic slant.

As for the fashion, this experts sums up the top winners of the evening, including Lady Gaga’s celestial beast of a dress:

1. Beyonce– With the most wins of the night, the starlet is seen wearing a Stephane Rolland gown, Casadei Heels, and Lorraine Schwartz jewelry.
2. Fergie– Fergie is stunning in a blue Emilio Pucci mini dress, Kwiat cuff, Jessica Robinson jewelry, Le Silla sandals, and a jeweled Judith Leiber clutch. Lately, I’ve seen Fergie in Emilio Pucci at several red carpet events. She surely is a fan of his and I’m sure he is of her. Maybe a collaboration sometime in the future?
3. Jennifer Lopez- JLo looks gorgeous in this silver chain Versace gown.
4. Mary J Blige– So happy to see her in some color and her dress is another unique cut-out neckline that I adore. The R&B star brights up the right carpet in a fuschia Gucci gown with a Gucci clutch, and Lorraine Schwartz jewelry.
5. Lady Gaga– With Lady Gaga you wonder, “What is she going to pull of next?” She surely gave us an eye-popping look in this futuristic, Armani prive dress with towering, sparkly heels.
6. Miley Cyrus– Love her futuristic, rocker-chic style. Miley is wearing a short teal Herve Leger by Max Azria dress, Judith Leiber clutch, and gladiator sandals. Love it!
7. Pink– Now this is a change. Pink giving us old-Hollywood glamour? She looks amazing in a crystal-encrusted Tony Ward haute couture gown, Judith Leiber clutch, and Neil Lane diamond jewelry worth 2.5 million dollars. Wow!
8. Taylor Swift–  She brings extreme glamour in this shimmery blue Kaufman Franco gown, platinum and diamond jewelry by Lorraine Schwartz. I love the neckline of this dress!

Source: HotBeautyHealth

Nothing gives the world a better fashion indicator than a good award ceremony. Figure it this way: some of the top fashion designers in the world are recruited to dress celebrities. These people know what’s hot!

So let’s cut to the chase: what was hot and what was not at last night’s Grammys?

Lady Gaga, in her own fashion universe

Imogen Heap, Mary Poppins style

Pink, in a gray mood

Beyonce, giving flesh tone a whole new meaning

Miley Cyrus, in a marbled look?

Oh, Britney. A good friend would have stopped you.

Katy Perry – vintage goth

Tomorrow, we’ll take a closer look at some of the jewelry choices seen at the Grammys. Stay tuned!

Our Keys of Love pendant necklaces have to be one of the most popular Valentine’s Day gifts of all time. Perhaps its because “love keys” are a hot fashion trend right now, worn by celebrities like Ashley Greene and Blair Waldorf :

Or maybe because Tiffany’s broke the ice with their pendant keys. (Frankly, we like ours much better!)

Our Keys of Love are affordable and adaptable. You can customize your key according to your every desire and every budget. If you want a certain stone studding your key or a different metal, we can tailor your necklace to give it that personal touch.

If you’re a little perplexed about the perfect gift for this Valentine’s Day, this gift is unique, sweet and personal.

Style 10362

Key of Love Necklace with Pave Set Stones

“With colored diamonds, it’s not about what’s beautiful to everyone else. It’s about what speaks to me and my personal sense of style.”

That’s what Randi Molofsky has to say, the author of “A Girl’s Guide to Buying Diamonds: How to Choose, Evaluate, and Buy the Diamond You Want.”

According the New York Times article:

Brown diamonds, better known by their more effervescent name, champagnes, were first offered to the trade in the early 1990s after a big discovery at the Argyle mine in Western Australia. Since they are small, marked with internal flaws and plentiful, they had only been used for industrial purposes. Retailers, the gatekeepers of the jewelry industry, disdained them.Years of training by the Gemological Institute of America had instilled in retailers the notion “that white was better,” said Elizabeth L. Chatelain, president of MVI Marketing, based in Paso Robles, California, which helped Argyle introduce champagne diamonds to the American market. “To retailers, these were off-color goods.”

Consigned to mass merchants, who sold them on the cheap, browns languished in the low-end market until the turn of the millennium, when opinions began to change and designers warmed to the idea of jewelry with the refractive brilliance of a diamond and the singular palette of a colored stone.

There was a bonus: At prices 15 percent to 25 percent lower than their white counterparts, champagnes were a bargain.

“It gave designers a way to do quite exuberant and elaborate diamond designs at a lower cost,” said Sally C. Morrison, director of the Diamond Information Center. “There are so many shades to create nuance and texture using browns. It’s a way to paint in color.”

What we can note from this article is that colored diamonds are seeing a well-deserved resurgence. They are affordable and reflect a personal style, plus the variations on what to do with a fancy-colored gem are endless.

“It’s been an interesting journey,” Mr. Le Vian said. “We’ve taken stones considered low quality and made them attractive to consumers.”

Take a look at our Gemesis page for some of our best and brightest:

Style GM1006

Yellow Cushion Cut Gemesis Ring With Pave’ White Diamonds

1.38ct deep fancy yellow cushion cut Gemesis diamond of VS clarity set into 18kt white gold single shank mounting accentuated with approximately .90ct t.w. round brilliant cut pave’ set diamonds.

Metal: 18kt White Gold
Stone Size: .84ct
Ring Size: 5 – 8

The Wittelsbach diamond, a 35.56-carat fancy deep grayish-blue diamond with a long history, was among the gems slated for auction at Christie’s “Jewels: The London Sale” last month. What was the asking price? Read on:

Officially known as “Der Blaue Wittelsbacher,” the diamond is one of the few that can claim 17th-century heritage.

In 1664, King Philip IV of Spain (1605-1665) selected the diamond as part of the dowry of his daughter, Infanta Margarita Teresa (1651-1673), upon her engagement to Leopold I of Austria (1640-1705), who later became Holy Roman Emperor.

The diamond subsequently became part of the Austrian and then the Bavarian crown jewels.

The diamond has been part of a private collection since 1964, and its appearance at the upcoming Christie’s auction marks its first offering to the international market in nearly 80 years.

“It is a great honor and a lifetime dream to handle a museum-quality stone such as the Wittelsbach,” said Francois Curiel, chairman of Christie’s Europe and international head of jewelry. “The appearance of a large blue diamond, among the rarest of colors, with a history that can be traced back to the 17th century and 300 years of royal connections will surely be a thrilling occasion for all collectors of exceedingly rare jewels and works of art.”

So what did the historic diamond go for? How about a record-setting $24.3 million! Recession? What recession?

“In the midst of these challenging times, we were thrilled to achieve an historic price for an historic diamond,” said Francois Curiel, chairman of Christie’s Europe and auctioneer for Wednesday’s sale.

The previous sales record was a mere $16.5 million for a 100-carat diamond in 1995.

Source: National Jeweler

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