Tuesday 4 February 2020

What are Salt and Pepper Diamonds?

Essentially, they are just white diamonds with many black and white inclusions. 

This gives a grey multi-tonal speckled effect, hence the name.

They can be really rather pretty, and quite a lovely choice of diamond for people who enjoy different coloured gemstones.

Another positive
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Friday 31 January 2020

Morganite

Pretty and pink. Oh yes please.

Call me a girlie girl I’ll happily accept, if you’re gifting me a morganite.

This precious pink gemstone, named after banker JP Morganite is a Beryl.

This is the same family of gemstone as emeralds and aquamarines.

Its hues vary from soft pinks,
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Tuesday 28 January 2020

How Unique is the Symbol of Your Love?

Some may wear their hearts on their sleeves, but most of us could be seen to express details our lives through our hands. The truths we tell with our hands are unique projections of our personal realities, expressing our personalities, status, love, family life. We are story tellers, gestures,
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Friday 24 January 2020

If size doesn’t matter, does shape?

With so many options these days for diamonds of all different characteristics to suit the pocket. Perhaps size and cost are no longer the predominant factors in choosing an engagement ring. Perhaps shape or cut of stone is a novel way to personalise this symbol of love. Through the outlook of how
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Tuesday 21 January 2020

What Is A Cultured Diamond?

Let’s be honest, Lab grown diamonds have a terrible name.

One that implies they are synthetic mass produced fake diamonds.

However, a lab diamond is a diamond, just by no means grown over the course of time deep within the earth’s mantle.

For many people this might be a predominant factor
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Monday 23 December 2019

Happily Ever After this Christmas

A lot has changed in recent times relating to the principles, or fantasy of happily ever after.
Old fantasy:
Princess locked in castle tower, waits to be rescued by Prince who slays evil dragon. They live happily ever after, with pets and local wildlife helping with the chores signing a happy
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Saturday 30 November 2019

JUICY GEMS

Leaves are becoming beautiful shades of rust floating off trees around us. Cashmere woollens in tones of peach to burnt orange are appearing, calling to us in from shop windows. Autumn is here, crackling fires and the sense of excitement of Halloween is in the air. The natural progression of
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