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  A Day in the Life

  Have you ever wondered what a day looks like in my life? Today is the day to find out! 7:00-7:15am Do a preliminary check of my email and social media to see what might be coming my way for the day. 7:15am Get my daughter dressed, fed and ready for…

  August 15, 2016
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  TGP: Year Two

  A lot has happened over the last year, and certainly in the last two! On a more personal note, I have moved from just outside of the Mojave desert where water is scarce to a 1800s farmhouse in the middle of thousands of acres of the incredible rolling hills of…

  August 9, 2016
• Culinary Elle Collection Mahenge spinel social media Uncategorized

  Social Media Updates

  Ok, I’ve been trying to be more active on social media as of late, so I figured I should update everyone here! Instagram username: @thegemstoneproject I have tried to cultivate a fun Instagram feed and carefully decide what to post every day. I typically try to post 3-5 times every day.…

  July 18, 2016
• Diamond Halo Ring Spinel

  Custom Red Burmese Spinel Halo Ring

  I’ve been incredibly busy, to say the least! I actually took my first day off in three weeks renovating/decorating/etc the other day to exclusively work on jewelry stuff. I had been sorely missing it and really had a stack of things to get back on – gemstone photography, rough jewelry…

  March 28, 2016
• Gem Blast Gemstone Loose Stones Precision Cutting

  Miscellaneous Announcements & Gems

  As per usual, things have been a bit crazy around here. I’ve been able to spend some time working on some custom projects, which has been a nice change of pace from non-stop painting and renovation. Luckily, I think that’s coming to a close (FINALLY!) and things should be wrapping…

  February 22, 2016
• jewelry design My Jewelry Line Project

  Updates on Jewelry Line

  Sometimes I go into Sunday and I realize that I have no idea what kind of blog to post for Monday. And there are sometimes when I’m super organized and have blog ideas or even whole blog entries that are ready to be posted a month into the future. I…

  September 21, 2015
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  A Year in Review

  Happy first birthday to The Gemstone Project! Lets see, the past year has been chock full of wonderful craziness. August 2014 The first month started out with a lot of posts about various gemstones, including a colorless garnet, and gray spinel. It included an unheated Umba color shifting sapphire in…

  August 9, 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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  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
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  Update on Social Media

  I’ve been spending a bit more time on social media with little updates here and there, so if you haven’t already, you should find me, especially with JCK and related events coming up! Here is how my social media presence typically breaks down: Instagram – multiple daily photo updates 5-7 days…

  May 7, 2015
• Antique Art Deco Diamond jewelry design Jewels by Grace Loose Stones Precision Cutting Uncategorized

  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
• Aquamarine Gemstone Loose Stones Precision Gemstones Sapphire Topaz

  Social Media

  Have you found me on social media yet? I was just lamenting to a fellow gemstone lover, Jeffrey Hunt, the other day that with blogs, you don’t really get to interact with people a lot. Sometimes I feel like I’m just writing for myself and posting it out into the vast vacuum…

  January 19, 2015