Tag: design

• Diamond engagement wedding

  Gender Inequality and the Jewelry Trade

  I’ve been writing this post and it’s companion piece over a period of time. If you’ve read through my about me post you know that I have a bachelor’s degree in psychology, but what I haven’t mentioned is that my minor was sociology, and in both my major and minor,…

  August 3, 2015
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  Gemstone Vocabulary and Anatomy

  I decided to put together a glossary of sorts of gemstone terms, or terms that I use relatively often and might not be familiar to those who aren’t well versed in gemstone and jewelry terminology. Something I wish I had when I was first learning! This is an endlessly growing…

  July 20, 2015
• jewelry jewelry design My Jewelry Line Ring Uncategorized

  Imitation vs. Inspiration

  Roughly a year ago, when I first started to get the idea that I might actually design for a living, I got the opportunity to speak with a renowned designer/jeweler. One of the first things I asked when I got the opportunity to ask him questions was what his inspiration…

  June 22, 2015
• jewelry design My Jewelry Line

  Metal Color and Flow

  This is sort of a random topic, but because I’ve recently been working on two stones where the metal color has really been dictated by the center stone, I have been wanting to talk about it because I’ve been thinking about it so freaking much! I don’t like to have…

  June 15, 2015
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  Viva Las Vegas! JCK 2015 Part 2!

  Part 2. Or day 2. This is by far the most photo intensive post in this trilogy. Friday Naturally, after not getting to sleep until 3am, we slept in a bit, though that was not the plan. The plan was to get to JCK ASAP and start trawling through gemstones…

  June 11, 2015
• jewelry design My Jewelry Line

  Jewelry Line Updates

  I have been working madly on a variety of jewelry related and non-jewelry related issues, so I feel like many days have gone by where I haven’t been able to devote as much time as I wanted to to the things I really would like to spend my time on.…

  June 1, 2015
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  JCK 2015

  Last minute informational post, because I have a lot going on this week, and have already posted a lot of blogs for the month! I have been invited to attend JCK as a designer with a LA based company that I have done some contract designing with. As much as I’d…

  May 25, 2015
• Diamond engagement Uncategorized wedding

  Gender Inequality and Jewelry Marketing

  I’ve been writing this post over a long period of time. If you’ve read through my about me post you know that I have a bachelor’s degree in psychology, but what I haven’t mentioned is that my minor was sociology. In both my major and minor, I concentrated in classes…

  May 18, 2015
• Blue Gem Blast purple Sapphire Violet

  Gem Blast: Violet Sapphire

  I’ve recently taken possession of a Violet sapphire that perfectly skirts the line between purple and blue. I just had it certified by American Gemological Laboratories. I had never done that before, and it was a pretty great experience, especially when AGL testing found out that it was completely untreated.…

  May 11, 2015
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  Gem Blast: Fancy Yellow Diamond

  Once upon a time I really wanted a trillion shaped engagement ring. That was back when I was a teenager if I remember correctly. I ended up with a round brilliant that I basically picked out for myself, so obviously teenage dreams of a trillion didn’t exactly happen. But since…

  April 27, 2015
• Band jewelry jewelry design My Jewelry Line Sapphire

  David Klass Contest Band Part 2

  There may be some irony that the post on the week of my birthday is not on diamonds, but sapphires. Back in October 2014 I posted an entry about a band I had entered into a contest that David Klass was having. You can read that blog post here. I…

  April 20, 2015
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  Diamond Rose Cuts

  Since diamond is the birthstone for April, I’ll stick with writing about them for the most part this month. It really helps that I’ve been playing with them a lot lately in a variety of forms. So today I want to talk about a rarer form that diamonds take on:…

  April 13, 2015