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Swarovski Rainbow Pearl Earrings

Another Pearl Collection, Unique design with Various Color of Crystals.Made from Swarovski Pearl 8mm and Swarovski Bicone Crystals 4mm.Unique Earring Pins material as 12K gold-filled with Teardrop Crystals.

Story behind these earrings – Fashion Jewelry Trend for this year is Pearl so I try to make different designs from Swarovski Pearls. First I started with the Classic design of Pearl Jewelry like Classic Pearl Necklaces in different length.. I, myself, was boring and wanted to try new thing so I picked various colors of crystals that I have and created this design..

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Cate Blanchett’s Unique Jewelry Style

Not only is Cate Blanchett a respected actress and Hollywood A-lister, she also has great signature style that we simply can’t keep our eyes off. Cate’s bold jewelry choices and fashion forward ensembles have captivated us time and time again. She knows how to make a statement, she isn’t afraid to take a little fashion risk, and she is hands down gorgeous in whatever she wears.

Cate Blanchett is constantly pushing the fashion envelope, ensuring that all eyes will be on her at the entrance to every major event. Yet, her choices are not overpowering and she wears each one like a second skin with grace and confidence. Cate’s known for adding eye-catching jewelry to make a statement on the red carpet. Years ago, she went out on a limb and incorporated piles of gold bangle bracelets, a gold arm cuff, gold rings and gold hoop earrings with a floor length black gown. On anyone else, it might have been a little much, but on Kate, it was simply divine.

More recently, Cate has opted for big bold necklaces, and she always makes sure to incorporate color into her look. She rocked a beautiful quartz beaded pendant necklace over a silk organza strapless gown. At another premiere, she chose a long circular pendant paired with a gold dress and simple up-do.

Even when she’s pregnant, Cate’s style is one for the books. The stunning emerald and gold draped necklace and matching drop earrings she paired with a navy gown got rave reviews. Indeed, Cate chooses pieces that are fun, fearless and absolutely fabulous. It’s because of this, she’s ended up on the top of the best-dressed lists in Hollywood. And though her jewelry style might be a little edgy, Cate Blanchett is able to pull it off without a hitch.

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The australian diamond industry

Australian Argyle Diamonds are internationally reowned for their unique brilliance and stunning array of colours. Unearthed in the rugged Kimberley region in the far north of Western Australia, Argyle Diamonds thrill in shades of exotic pink, sparkling champagne, rich cognac and dazzling white.

From the rare pink diamond to the classic white and natural champagnes, Argyle Diamonds are firing the world’s imagination. And why shouldn’t they? The Argyle Diamond Mine is the world’s biggest producer of natural diamonds and contributes approximately one-third of the world’s natural supply.

Discovery Of The Argyle Diamond Mine
The Argyle diamond story has its origins in the early 1970s, when one of the world’s most significant find of diamonds was made at Smoke Creek in the remote north of Western Australia, over 2000 kilometres from Perth, the state capital.

Although significant, it is certainly not the first discovery of diamonds in Western Australia. Diamonds had been recovered in the Pilbara region as far back as the 1890s but the primary source of any of these diamond finds had never been located.

The key was time and patience. For decades, geologists had known that a major source of diamonds existed in Australia, but is wasn’t until 1972 that their work had identified the Kimberley region as being the most likely location. A joint venture was formed. Geologists spend the next seven years patiently searching the region to discover the Argyle diamond deposit, tantalised by new clues and frustrated by dead ends.

The geologists received their biggest encouragement yet with the Ellendale Prospect in 1977. A number of diamond-bearing kimberlite pipes were discovered in Ellendale, located near Derby. However, the evaluation of the Ellendale Prospect showed it to be uneconomical.

It wasn’t until October 2 1979, that geologists were literally standing on top of the richest diamond deposit in the world. They had pinpointed the Argyle Diamond pipe.

The discovery was made while working in Smoke Creek near the awesome Lake Argyle, a man-made dam covering some 720 square kilometres. Geologists found several stones in the creek bed and back tracked along the course finding more diamonds as they went until they climbed high into the range and before long were standing on the Argyle diamond pipe.

The Argyle Diamond Mine
In 1983, construction work began on the main open-cut mine and process plant. In the meantime, diamonds began to be recovered by an alluvial plant at Smoke Creek and Limestone Creek. Some 15 million carats of alluvial diamonds had been recovered by the time the main Argyle plant was commissioned in 1985.

Argyle Diamond Production
The Argyle diamond mine has firmly placed Australia on the top as the world’s biggest producer of diamonds in terms of volume. As well as being Australia’s only major diamond producer, the Argyle diamond mine is also one of the most technologically advanced mines in the world.

Since its inception, annual production has steadily increased from 29 million carats in 1986, the mine’s first full year of production, to 40.9 million carats in 1993. The average annual production since 1994 has been over 35 million carats.

Argyle Diamonds
Argyle Diamonds fall into three main categories: pink, champagne, and white diamonds. The 4C’s guide to quality and value applies to coloured diamonds just as it does to white diamonds. However, coloured diamonds are graded for their intensity of colour, not lack of it.

Argyle diamonds have two very unique and outstanding features: they are harder than other diamonds and may fluoresce blue under ultra-violet light.

The hardness factor of Argyle diamonds results from its unusual atomic structure. Although all diamonds share the same atomic structure, the atoms of Argyle diamonds are bonded together in more complex arrangements. This complex structure is also one of more the major reasons for the deep colours of the Argyle product mix, especially the champagne and pink diamonds.

Around 70 per cent of the Argyle yield fluoresces blue under ultra-violet light; a day with high U.V levels will make an Argyle diamond dance and dazzle with lovely blue flashes!

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Stand out with the Help of Tag Heuer Diamond Watches

Nowadays, watches are not restricted to the original function of telling time. In fact, they have become the extension of people’s personality. They can express your social status and fashion taste in one brief glance. There are various watches in different styles, sizes and colors available in current market. Whatever your taste may be, you can always find the suitable one.

Among the wide selection of luxury designer watches, diamond watches must be the most fashionable ones. For faddish persons who want to appear trendier and be prominent in a crowd of people, they are absolutely the best options. Therefore, the world famous watch manufacturer Tag Heuer introduced kinds of fabulous diamond watches intended for keen fashionistas who love to collect watches with diamonds and experience the perfect quality of Swiss watches as well.

There are a few of diamond watches Tag Heuer made including Aquaracer 2000 Women’s Diamond Watch, Diamond Fiction Watch, Formula 1 Ladies Diamond Watch and so on. All of them are known worldwide for the elegant styles as well as quality functions. As soon as you wear one on your wrist, you can surely be the center of attention of everyone. Besides, your personality will sonly get enhanced with the help of the stunning accessories. Furthermore, Tag Heuer diamond watches can be wonderful gifts for your friends or families when you want to let them know how you care them.

Authentic Tag Heuer diamond timepieces are expensive, while, they really deserve your any investment. If you want to save your money but experience the luxury and quality of Swiss watches at the same time, you can go for Tag Heuer replica watches at much cheaper prices.

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Chunky Bling Cross Mabe Pearl Necklace – Janine Antulov

I love these colours together, cream pearl, siam red and clear crystal – just stunning. I made the cross yesterday and wasn’t sure on the colours, I needed something chunky around the neck and I had these large size pearls hanging around, so I thought I would go back to this colour combination again. The large cross has a large oval mabe pearl cabochon and I surrounded it with 4 large rectangles and 4 large siam pears.. I suspended it from the large pearls with a siam and clear crystal medium pear beside it. I connected the belcher chain to the necklace to make it double strand and suspended a large crystal pear in the centre. The cross is gold plated and prong set and soldered by hand. The cross length from the top of the pearls is 4 inches long and 2 1/4 inches wide. The length of the necklace is 21 inches long with an adjustable chain and crystal on the end.

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Who said bracelets only women?

There are plenty of gold bracelets that specially designed for men. The popular designs for mens gold bracelet for example inclusive of gold name plate personalized bracelets and chunky interlocking mens gold bracelets. These smart and remarkable mens gold bracelet is the best gift for men during the occasions like birthday, thanks giving or farewell. This smart mens gold bracelet also can be use daily as the normal body accessory for man.

Same as womens gold bracelets and right hand rings, mens gold bracelet can be found in many varieties and types. However the most common mens gold bracelet that we can see is mens white gold
bracelet and mens solid gold bracelet. Both mens gold bracelets are consisting of almost 100% of gold metal. Unlike woman’s gold bracelets, mens gold bracelets seldom incorporating with stones or diamonds. They are normally offering in plain piece of gold with some designs on the chain. The designs of this mens gold bracelets also quite simple as only consist of cross and metal overlap. To match with smart and steady man ship image, mens gold bracelets consisting more straight forward designs. In lieu with that, mens gold bracelet comes with the gold name plate becoming the most popular mens gold bracelets for this century.

As what we emphasis earlier, gold bracelets for men are available in varieties of styles, sizes and shapes. In conjunction with that, I’m going to recommend you few types of mens gold bracelets that might suited your taste.

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Hot Collection of snake jewelry designed

Sinuous and stylish, snakes have always inspired jewelry designers. Gold snake bracelets and rings  at The Metropolitan Museum of Art that were the hot look in 300 BC would be just as fashionable today.

But 2010 may go down in jewelry history as the year of the snake thanks to the new “Protection” collection of snake jewelry designed by Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt for Asprey. (Asprey says the designs were inspired by Angelina’s reflection on the snake as an “iconic guardian, a cultural symbol of family protection.”)  The new collection benefits a good cause too: the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict.

Jolie isn’t the only star wearing snakes on the red carpet lately. Shakira also donned snake earrings at the recent American Music Awards. Emily Blunt has been seen recently in a snake bracelet. Everywhere you look, gold and silver serpents spiral around wrists and fingers.

So with so many snake designs, how does the jewelry by the world’s hottest couple stack up? Judge for yourself by ranking the serpentine styles in our very own design Snakedown!

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What Causes Colour in Diamonds?

Diamonds are very pure carbon that crystallised more than 100km beneath the earth’s surface. Diamonds grow under immense heat and pressure; they must be transported to the surface within an hour or two in a volcano. In a way they are snap frozen and if the journey takes too long they revert back to graphite or carbonaceous gases.

Sometimes other atoms are trapped in a diamond as it grows or during its violent ride to the surface. The most common is Nitrogen; the tiniest amount causes blue light to be absorbed giving the diamond a yellowish colour. Argyle diamonds, mined in Australia, are an exception as they are actually very pure; the cause of the rare pink is a freak of nature and also unfortunately means they have many more inclusions than most diamonds from other sources. The worry is that once the Argyle mine runs out of pinks, the diamond world will be a less colourful place. In 2009 the mining virtually stopped and stockpiles of ore were the main source of pinks. Argyle had begun developing an underground operation because the open cut is no longer viable. But the global financial crisis has put that development on hold. Personally I believe Riotinto will try to sell the mine as they are strapped for cash and a smaller underground mine does not fit their portfolio.
Rarity
Intensely coloured diamonds are the rarest and most beautiful of nature’s gem treasures. Rarity and desire are the two things that set the price of coloured diamonds. The most rare and prized in order are red, blue, pink, green, gold and then yellow, milky white, champagne and black. Values can be 100 times more than that of a white diamond!

The long standing highest price per-carat ever paid was $1,250,000 for a 6mm purplish-red badly flawed 0.90ct diamond of just less than 1 carat (inclusions are common in natural red and pink diamonds). It was named the Hancock Red.

In May 2009 this record was surpassed when a flawless vivid blue diamond weighing 7.03 carats sold for a record $9.49 million, the new highest price paid per carat for any gemstone. This stone was planned using my associates inclusion scanning equipment. Then in November 2009 a 5ct VS1 vivid pink sold in Hong Kong for $2.1M per carat. So in the midst of a financial crisis the record price was broken twice, which goes to show where the smart money goes in times of trouble.

Blue Diamonds

Natural blue diamonds are a light greyish blue shade, a more “steely” colour than sapphire. The most famous blue diamond is The Hope diamond in Washington’s Smithsonian Institute.

This stone is steeped in legends of horrible deaths that befell many of its owners, from guillotining during the French Revolution, to a Wall Street broker jumping to his death in 1930. A lead molding from the ‘French Blue’ was scanned by Scott Sucher using my associates advanced technology to prove the stone was recut from the earlier versions.

New York jeweller Harry Winston purchased it to donate to the Smithsonian and only owned it briefly. While his insurance company and armed couriers were discussing the cost and method of delivering the priceless gem to Washington, it’s reported that Harry strolled down to the post office and posted the diamond in a cigarette packet as ordinary mail!

Green Diamonds

Green diamonds have come in contact with radioactive minerals such as uranium. Radiation stains the outside of the diamond, so the cutter must be careful not to cut away too much of the green “skin”. Authenticating that the radiation occurred naturally requires laboratory analysis at a leading gemmological institute; often the cutter submits the stone as rough and during the cutting process. Buyer beware!

Yellow and Orange Diamonds

To be called a Fancy colour means the diamond has more colour than Z (face up) on the GIA D-Z white diamond grading scale. Fancy yellow diamonds come in a range of hues from greenish yellow to orangy-amber. They start at similar prices to white diamonds and prices rise with increasing intensity.

Connoisseurs in the trade use the term “canary” to describe intense yellow. Burnt orange Argyle champagne’s are a less expensive alternative to very expensive pure gold or orange colours.
The Ellendale mine, discovered about the same time as Argyle, has been opened and operating for the past several years and it has produced many fine fancy yellow diamonds.

White-milky Diamonds

A little known and quite rare diamond is a white opalescent diamond. These are collector’s oddities and we have a small selection at Holloway Diamonds. They are a lot less expensive than transparent colourless diamonds, and we think they were a real bargain. There have been articles written about them recently in Gems and Gemmology, a journal created by the GIA. Who knows, they may become the next fashion thing like black diamonds.

Black Diamonds

Pave’ set Black diamonds are popular in high-fashion jewellery. We have a large collection of the latest black and white diamond designs. They often used in men’s jewellery.

Most of the black diamond fashion jewellery is made with irradiated treated coloured diamonds. Natural untreated black diamonds with a good surface lustre are rare. Many other black diamonds are low clarity diamonds that when heated go very dark grey.

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Men Jewelry: Black Diamond Cufflinks

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have designed the first men’s item for the Protector Collection, the line of limited edition fine jewels and silver objects created in collaboration with famed London luxury goods firm Asprey to benefit charity. $11,000 Black Diamond Cufflinks featuring the collection’s signature serpent emblem.

The cufflinks crafted in 18k white gold with black diamonds and emeralds are available in a strictly limited edition like the other pieces in the collection, and the proceeds will benefit one of Angelina’s charity organizations, the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict. The design is based on Jolie’s reflection on the serpent as an iconic guardian and cultural symbol of family protection.

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Wow!! Sexy Vampire Jewelry trends 2010

We know about the bold jewelry, the pearl jewelry and many other jewelry trends of the coming fall. But the one that is creating a lot of vibes among the young generation is the vampire style jewelry by the Demistache. With the release date of New Moon nearing, this jewelry line is a bigger hit.

Comprising of necklaces inspired by vampire-smitten products like the bullets and chain, this jewelry line is called as the “Killer” collection. Well, I don’t know if it will be wearable on daily basis or not but it is elegant and can be easily worn by teenagers for theme parties or by someone who is a fan of vampire movies and can handle such kind of bold fashion. So, what are you waiting for? Go, have a look, maybe you too like a piece or two.

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