Jennifer Kirkpatrick is the designer behind Bella Photo Jewelry, a company that hand makes unique and beautiful photographic jewelry. Jennifer with her Children Jennifer was originally a busy website designer working from home. After the birth of her son in April 2006, followed by her daughter in September 2007 she found her new role as a mother an extremely time consuming one, and was intent ...

Today’s article looks at the unusual story of how one man’s childhood experiments of creating fire using a magnifying glass has evolved into a unique and profitable jewelry business. As a teenager, Bretwood Higman would experiment with a magnifying glass on the beach near his Alaskan home, transforming gravel into black glass and setting fire to zinc-based pennies. Today this has progr...

In these days of major chain stores and the decline of retail independents, in this article we take a step back and tell the story of the Folsom Jewelry Store, which was located on the corner of North Main and Hampton Avenue in Sumter, South Carolina, in one of the city’s oldest and most historic buildings. F. Haltom Folsom worked as a watchmaker for the Mason jewelry store until the America...

The recent Las Vegas jewelry shows saw top manufacturers Swarovski and Le Vian both offer their predictions for jewelry trends in 2010. Le Vian unveiled their predictions on Sunday May 31 at its Red Carpet Revue, its annual event held in collaboration with Harper’s Bazaar. The trends from the runways of fall 2009 were examined, and Chief Executive Officer of the company, Eddie LeVian, was th...

It is often said that a top-quality gem is ageless, but a recent story published in the Deseret News, Utah’s second largest daily newspaper, appears to prove that a top-quality jeweler can also continue to shine. McKay Diamonds in downtown Salt Lake City has just turned 60 years old - no mean feat in the days of high-street chains and busy malls, but even more admirable when you discover tha...

With the ever-increasing popularity of video games consoles, and in particular the Nintendo Wii, it seems it was only a matter of time before kids were collecting virtual gems as well as real ones. The new series of ‘Charm Girls Club’ games for the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS will have young girls collecting sparkly virtual charms from locations such as the Mall and at Pajama Parties,...

When your father is one of the world’s most renowned suppliers of gemstone-quality sapphires, emeralds and rubies, it is easy to see how you may grow up to become a jewelry designer. But although Eve Sperling began working for her father at the age of fifteen, in the family-owned gem company Precious Gem Resources, it was a different path that she first ventured out on. After receiving a Bac...

Save Even More Money Using Coupon Codes When visiting the jewelry store there really is no reason to pay full price.  The same goes for jewelry stores found on the Internet. Many online merchants create coupon codes to give their customers extra savings. Sometimes these coupon codes can be difficult to find and can require some hunting and searching the Internet. Jewelry on the Internet definitel...

For years many cultures have expressed themselves through jewelry. Many religious affiliations have used jewelry, as well. Because of its symbolic power, jewelry has become a way for people to express their spiritual or religious beliefs. Two well-known Christian symbols are the cross and the fish. When someone sees these in the form of jewelry, one will generally think the wearer is a Christian. ...

  If you haven’t noticed recently we’ve seen an explosion in beads and the art of beading.  Since the dawn of humankind humans have found ways to wear beads in the form of shell bones, rocks, or anything that they could find and use to ornament their bodies.  They would use leather or vine to wear their piece around their neck or head, or perhaps on their wrist or around their ank...

A major International exhibition of platinum wedding rings heads to London later this month. Featuring rings created by some of the most celebrated Italian designers, ‘Eternal Platinum: The Ultimate Symbol of Love’ is on display at I.N.C Space, Covent Garden between 8th and 12th June, as part of the Coutts London Jewelry Week. The unique collection recently took Milan by storm, and con...

We already wear jewelry on our fingers and toes, in our ears, eyebrows, belly buttons, noses and goodness knows where else, - but would you wear jewelry in your eye? For designer Eric Klarenbeek the answer is a resounding ‘Yes’. The Dutchman recently trialed a new range of eye jewelry and after receiving positive feedback has decided to put his range into full production. But before yo...