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Rose Gold
Blooms As The
New High-Fashion Color
The soft, luscious blush color of rose
gold is gaining new popularity this season with designers of
all types of jewelry. It’s fresh, flattering, and fun to
wear because it blends so well with all kinds of flesh
tones.
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warn look of rose, pink, and even peach colored gold also
combines beautifully with the season’s more popular pastel
gemstones…pink tourmaline, pink and violet sapphires,
amethyst, pale blue topaz, light green peridot, and soft
yellow citrine. It also goes well with pink and other pastel
colored freshwater pearls, and the rich pastel shades of
Tahitian pearls.
Rose or pink gold is produced by adding a small amount of
copper to the alloy. The more copper, the “redder” the
alloy. Peach gold is a new orangy-pink alloy that looks
especially attractive with clear, white diamonds.
This season, many fashion-forward designers are offering new
two-tone jewelry styles combining pink and white gold, or
pink gold and platinum in elegant rings, pendants, pins,
earrings, bracelets, and necklaces.
It’s a trend that many men have already discovered:
masculine rings and watch cases in rose gold or two-tone
rose gold and platinum or titanium.
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The World
of Unusual Gemstones
Orange-Pink
Padparadscha Sapphire
This beautiful gem from Ceylon (now
Sir Lanka) is famous for combining orange and pink colors in
soft pastel shades akin to water colors. Only sapphires with
light to medium tones of pinkish orange or orange-pink hues
can legitimately be called padparadscha. This subtle mixture
of colors has been compared to everything from luscious
slices of smoked Scottish salmon to tropical sunsets.
 The
term “padparadscha” is derived from the ancient Sanscrit
word (padmaraga) for the lotus flower and its color. From
there it makes its way into German (padparaschan) and
finally arrives as a term applied to a specific orange-pink
color of sapphire.
This description does not apply to the so-called “African
padparadschas” from the Umba region of Tanzania. Although
these gems are beautiful as fancy sapphires, they have too
much brown and orange to meet the standard of true
orange-pink padparadschas.
Like all sapphires, padparadschas have brilliant color, high
durability and a sparkling luster. The best examples of this
rare and beautiful form of corundum are at least five carats
in size because it takes a certain amount of body mass to
get the full color saturation in the right balance and
intensity.
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We
Can Make
Your Wishes
Come True
Dear Friends,
Did you ever wish for a beautiful piece of jewelry
for the holidays and what you received just wasn’t
it?
Well, we can make your wished come true. What we are
creating is a Wish List. Here’s how it works:
1. Simply visit our store, browse and select as many
items as your would like to receive for the holidays
or for that special occasion.
2. We will keep a registry of
these items on your list.
3. Mention to your loved ones
that you have selected several items at our store
and that you are registered on our Wish List.
4. Have them stop in and give
us your name, and we will show them the items you
have selected.
You’ve now make shopping for your gift an easy task.
Remember, there is no obligation. Visit our store
and let us help make your special wish come true.
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Celebrate 2005
With New Year’s
Jewelry That Really Parties! |
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This season’s newest jewelry designs let you celebrate the
New Year with sparkle, color, and zing! Bright confetti
colors set the tone for the season’s hottest jewelry
fashions. Plus slinky, serpentine styles of earrings,
bracelets, and necklaces are the noise-makers for fashion
forward jewelry styles. In addition, a host of other trendy
designs, such as art deco and art nouveau, are all the rage
as they blaze with brightly colored gems set in gleaming
yellow gold or shimmering white platinum. |
So start the New Year right, with a bright, happy
celebration and jewelry that matches the occasion. Remember,
the newest jewelry designs complement any costume – formal
or not. But if you want to be strictly formal, the
traditional colors for New Year’s celebrations are classic
black and white.
Elegant black and white jewelry never goes out of style.
This season, popular designs feature black and white
diamonds, black and white pearls, or combinations of opaque
black and white gems such as onyx, moonstone, and mother of
pearl.
Whichever you choose, your New Year’s celebration is sure to
be fashionable, festive, and fun!
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Stop In with
Your Questions
As members of IJO we are part of the largest Buying
Group in the world, almost 900 jewelers strong,
bringing you exclusive styles and the best values in
the industry. As professional jewelers, we have a
responsibility to our customers and our community…
to maintain standards and preserve your fine jewelry
investment.
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November
Topaz / Citrine
golden-yellow
topaz and lemony citrine are transparently clear,
have a bright, glittering sparkle, and are hard and
durable gems for any kind of jewelry.
Independence
and gregariousness are personality traits of those
born in December. And these lucky people
have
a choice of three beautiful birthstones. Opaque blue
turquoise and transparent blue zircon have both been
prized since ancient times for their heavenly blue
color and promise of prosperity. Sparkling
purple-blue tanzanite is a new birthstone discovered
in
Africa
in 1967 and has now become one of the world’s most
popular gems.
Famed
since Biblical times for its dark, wine-red color,
garnet also comes in dozens of glittering colors…
every color except blue.