Jewel Stories
Dedicated to meaningful personal expression with the art form of JEWELRY.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
OPALS: PARADIGM SHIFT
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Virgin Valley, Nevada Opal. Photo courtesy of Chris Ralph Today's blog is dedicated to Oregon jeweler extraordinaire, Norm Hollida...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
OPALS: LOVE & TRANSFORMATION (Part Two)
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When I first started working in the jewelry industry, the opal jewelry most often sold in America was the Australian white solid opal. ...
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Sunday, October 17, 2010
OPALS: PASSIONATE LOVE, BROKEN HEARTS, TRANSFORMATION (Part One)
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I'm in love. This week, I have been showing a lot of opals, talking about opals, falling in love with opals. The store where I a...
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Thursday, October 14, 2010
GALATEA PEARLS - A follow-up
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"When an oyster swallows a grain of sand it feels the discomfort, so it begins to ease the pain by applying a coat of nacre (pearl...
Monday, October 11, 2010
THE MAGIC OF GEMSTONES.....really?
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Photo courtesy of Dane A. Penland, Smithsonian Institute Examples of the common mineral quartz, a popular talisman "I command y...
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Sunday, October 10, 2010
JEWELRY: THE STORY BEGINS
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Photograph courtesy of Ian Cartwright, Institute of Archaeology, Oxford University Researchers say that these four beads are 82,000 years ...
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