It’s an auction jewelry site, where you often win auctions at a serious fraction of what the piece of jewelry is worth.

Within 3 minutes of me being on the site, I won my first auction and was so happy that I did. I bought a gorgeous bracelet for my hubby for Valentine’s Day!

Since then, we’ve won about 8 auctions, including my mother…ranging from winners at $6 up to $236.

You can actually win auctions for $1 on all sorts of jewelry, up to jewelry that goes for $21,000! Really beautiful, unique pieces you haven’t seen anywhere else.

For example, we just won an auction on a 18.95 ctw Mystic Topaz with two 1.70ctw amethysts ring set in 14K yellow gold, appraised at $1,869…We won the auction at $168. This is a gorgeous ring!

Yesterday, my mother won an auction with a ring appraised at $929.00 for $236.00 - She had to have it! LOL

It has a 2.10 ctw amethyst in the middle surrounded by 16 baguettes between 0.2 and 0.4 ctw of genuine aquamarine, citrine, garnet, modavite, amethyst, peridot, rhodolite garnet and topaz, all set in 10K yellow gold!

It’s amazing and she loves it…

I also won a few men’s rings, a pair of citrine studs that were 0.3 ctw each, and a gorgeous Fender watch! They’re presents, so I couldn’t possibly tell you how much they were! LOL

Unbelievable deals, fabulous designers across the board…from Gucci, Roca Wear, Tonino Lamborghini, Boucheron, Avirex and so many more, it would take a whole blog post to list them all!

The site is so easy to use as they have great category selections for anything you could possibly want.

They even sell fine art, as in paintings, jewelry boxes, Faberge-type eggs and containers…even sunglasses!

You can pay by credit card, “Bill Me Later”, or PayPal, so it’s simple to check out.

They have resizing options often. Shipping is through FedEx.

You have to go to get your next round of presents you’ll need…or for a special something just for you!

It’s my new favorite jewelry place online…Seriously, I’m addicted - They have new auctions starting every 5 seconds!

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I hope you enjoyed this Jewelry post on Your Jewelry Today! Until next time…

Get Bidding @ Bidz.com

Kimberly Edwards

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I recently wrote a post about Tips for Guys Buying Jewelry on Blog N’ Butter’s main blog…

But I neglected to tell them about a great way to save money and get more bang for your buck when buying diamonds…

It’s to buy loose diamonds!

That way, you cut out that extra, expensive middle man…

However, please don’t forget that you’ll have to get it set for a ring, earrings or whatever it is you have your sights set on!

Just be sure to follow the 4 Cs - color, clarity, carat weight and cut - to get the quality of diamond you want!

Also, please don’t forget that there are a number of different colors of diamonds…They’re all so very glamorous!

What’s even more Fabulous about buying loose diamonds is that you do have to go and get it set, but that just lets you be more creative and design something that you’ll love forever and that no one else in the world will ever have!

It just makes your diamond pieces that much more special.

For more info about how to buy loose diamonds, check out: Diamond Trust

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I hope you find this Diamonds post helpful on Your Jewelry Today! Until next time…

Loose Diamonds Rock,

Kimberly Edwards

P.S. If you want to learn how to have your own jewelry business and how to get in contact with wholesalers, dropshippers, liquidators and manufacturers, even how to get diamond jewelry 90-95% under retail value:

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I especially love it when they pair it with pink colored stones! What a hot statement!

I just purchased a gorgeous necklace from Bijoux Terner at the Buffalo Niagara Airport that I am so excited to wear in an upcoming photo shoot!

Pink is always in style, in my opinion, so wear it proudly!

If you’ve been a pink lover for years, spruce it up with bronze or pink gold settings.

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I hope you enjoyed this Fashion post on Your Jewelry Today! Until next time…

Be Pretty in Pink,

Kimberly Edwards

P.S. Check out this cool set with pink gold and pink stone set:

Pink/Gold Snake Jewelry Set This beautiful Snake jewelry set is a perfect gift for Snake enthusiasts. Its hand-crafted design looks great with almost anything!

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Photo left: “Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend” - Me, Kimberly Edwards - photo by Zdenka Micka, MUA Christina Trozzolo

Ladies and gentleman…I “stumbled upon” a website that looks to have some absolutely amazing deals on Online Jewelry.

I started looking around for something special for my mother for Mother’s Day this year, (which is May 11th people!!!) and browsed their Black Pearl Rings and Diamond Pendants sections…my mother is a lady of distinction naturally…

However, wow, they have everything here from…

For more information on this post from Blog N’ Butter, go to:

Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend - So Find Out Where To Buy Them

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I hope you enjoyed this installment from Blog N’ Butter on Your Jewelry Today! Until next time…

Be Jewelled,

Kimberly Edwards

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Hot Fashion Jewelry Trend

The fashion jewelry trend sees a strong growth in colored stone jewelry set in gold or silver to enhance every day wear to evening attire. Colored stone jewelry has a growing demand from tourmaline, yellow and purple sapphires to garnets.

Peridot green and citrine remain ever popular to the fashion industry, as well as antique reproduction jewelry. While diamond jewelry remains stable, watch as colored stone jewelry gains in popularity. The use of multi colored stones on a single jewelry item will create a fantastic jewelry specimen worthy of every ones attention. No longer is stone jewelry acceptable on just gold, silver stone jewelry is raising in demand and is set with a variety of colored stones and diamonds. Fun fashion jewelry is available in such a wide variety of styles and stones you should consider what style meets your needs and taste, as you will continue to add this style to your jewelry collection you will be able to wear several pieces on one occasion.

Linked is a fine example of a colored stone and diamond fashion ring, see how the use of multi colored sapphires work beautifully with emeralds, rubies and diamonds to create a magnificent fashion jewelry example.
www.lebaubles.com/diamond_fashion_ring-5.htm

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I hope you enjoyed today’s installment of Your Jewelry Today! Until next time…

Be Jewelled,

Kimberly Edwards

P.S. One of Cyndi’s picks is the Green Peridot…Check out this gorgeous ring:

Peridot Ring - Diamond & Peridot Ring in 14K White GoldThis beautiful ring has a 6mm cushion-checkered Peridot accented with a diamond on each side. A perfect cocktail ring. Total Diamond Weight 0.01 Carats Metal:14K Gold Rhodium:Yes Number of Round Diamonds:2 Minimum Carat Total Weight:0.01 Minimum Color:H-I Minimum Clarity:SI2 Setting Type:Prong Setting Gemstone:Peridot Shape:Cush-Chk Gemstone Dimensions:6mm

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How Not to Clean your Jewelry

I can still remember sitting in a chemistry class, so bored that I was supporting my increasingly heavy head on the heel of my left hand, when I got a whiff of the most disgusting odour. I looked at the classmate to my left, from where the smell seemed to be emanating.

He was an immaculately turned out pupil who smelled more of soap than, well, soap did. The culprit lay closer to home. I gazed down at my wrist. A quick sniff of my watch strap, and I nearly gagged. A few weeks of washing-up at home without bothering to take my watch off had taken its toll. My watch-strap, and particularly the thin rungs that connected the strap to the watch, reeked of rotting detergent and semi-dissolved food particles.

It was as though the dog had thown up on my wrist. I was in need of a strong chemical to neutralize the smell. I was in need of a jewelry cleaner.

Professionals can clean any item of jewelry. It can be a tricky task to find the right cleaning tool/chemical combo to get the job done, but an indepth knowledge of gems, metals and stones enables the professional to come up with the right solution every time. However, for a gangly, acne-ridden 15-year-old school boy, taking a minging watch to the jewelers would have been a devastating experience. I might as well have donned a sack-cloth and walked around ringing a bell and intoning ‘Unclean!’ to warn my classmates away. I had no choice. I had to do it at home.

You might well come across articles that warn of the ‘risks’ associated with certain types of jewelry cleaner. By ‘risks,’ such articles probably mean the risk to the jewelry. Nobody seems to be worried about the risks to the person whose wrist its wrapped around. In fact, the dangers I was about to face were manifold.

The Search for the Perfect Polish

At lunchtime, I gathered together the change to be used in the school canteen for lunch along with a little more I’d saved up from my dinner money that term and hurried into town. Rather than go to the jewelry store in the centre of town where I’d risk drawing attention to myself and my school uniform - wandering around town at lunchtime was strictly forbidden - I went into the hardware store on the outskirts.

There, after a quick search amongst the dusty shelves, I found what I was looking for - an industrial strength metal polish. I made it back to school just before the start of the next class. I’d missed lunch, but I didn’t care. I had my jewelry cleaner safely ensconced in the depths of my pealing addidas bag.

After school, I went straight out into the garden shed holding my gleaming tin of polish in one hand and my watch at arms length in the other. I waited for my eyes to adjust to the semi-darkness, then I unscrewed the lid. Immediately I was engulfed by a invisible cloud of pungent fumes. This stuff was powerful! I poured a small measure onto a rag and began dabbing at my watch.

Unbeknown to me, my kid brother had followed me to the shed. He had some kind of sixth sense for sniffing out my clandestine operations. Rather than open the door and say, ‘Hey, whatya doin’?’ he burst in and jumped on my back. In the ensuing struggle I managed to tip the entire contents of the metal polish over our school uniforms. We stopped struggling and looked at each other.

‘What is this stuff?’ he asked.

‘Nothing,’ I answered.

So he sucked at a large dollop of polish that had landed on his sleeve. I’m not sure whether he started coughing or throwing up first.

To cut a long story short, we spent an unpleasant evening at the hospital where we had to sit through lectures from every adult who heard our story. My brother was administered with water and a stern warning, while I was largely frozen out. The next day he was fine, but I felt hot and itchy.

When I crawled out of bed and looked in the shaving mirror I saw the elephant man staring back at me. Later on, the doctor told me and my frantic mother that I was suffering from nettle rash brought on by an allergic reaction to some toxic substance or other. I was promptly smeared in calamine lotion and confined to bed for three itchy days.

And my watch? Well, it went the way of the empty tin of polish. I imagine it was much cleaner though.

A Safer Approach to Jewelry Cleaning

The most common item of jewelry that most people take in for cleaning is their wedding ring, particularly one with diamonds. A wedding ring suffers the same exposure to the everyday onslaught of food and washing up that my watch had, not to mention the dirt and grease that can accumulate under and around the band itself.

Routine cleaning can be carried out with a toothbrush - as long as you don’t use it on your teeth afterwards. However, to rid your wedding ring of the long-term build up of tarnish and grease, you need to clean it thoroughly with a jewelry cleaner.

There are several options open to you if you want to clean your jewelry at home:

1. ultrasonic jewelry cleaners
2. ammonia-based scrubs
3. total immersion in a chemical jewelry cleaner.

Of course, it is essential that you choose the jewelry cleaner appropriate to your item of jewelry. If you use ultrasonic cleaners on opals, tanzanite, amber or any other gemstone you risk opening up tiny hairline cracks in the structure of the stones. Another example would be class rings which are often coated with a film to diminish their lustre.

The wrong type of jewelry cleaner will strip this coating with ease. You also have to take care with emeralds and pearls. They are soft and permeable and will absorb cleaning fluids which may erode and discolour their surfaces.

I know that after recounting my story, I can’t really get away with advising you to use common sense when choosing a jewelry cleaner. However, I learnt my lesson the hard way.

It’s actually much easier to ask for professional advice before you buy a jewelry cleaner, read the instructions on the tin, or, if it is a particularly valuable piece, hand it over to a professional who will clean your jewelry for you. Oh, and make sure, when you have your jewelry cleaner open and ready to use, that your kid brother is not lurking somewhere behind you.

Chris Lee Ramsden is a freelance writer and editor. He writes both short fiction and non-fiction for both online and print publications. Although he stems from the UK, he currently lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark.

You can find out more about jewelry cleaning and jewelry in general at Jewel in the Crown.

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Fine jewelry is jewelry that is made from precious metals like gold, silver, and platinum, embedded with precious gemstones.

Everyone loves jewelry and there are some people that can afford to spend a lot of money on jewelry. Fine jewelry is for those that love to look good and have the ability to spend money to stay classy and stylish at all times.

Considering everything, one could say that any superior quality precious metal that is set with precious gemstones can be termed ‘fine’ jewelry. When crafting this jewelry, the best and the finest metals and stones are used.

This perfectly designed jewelry is available in the best designs possible. What gives this jewelry it’s name, apart from the quality of the metals and gemstones used, is the intricate designs and craftsmanship.

This jewelry is specifically designed for those that have an eye for detail and want the best in life. Fine jewelry is something that stands the test of time and can be passed on as heirloom to the next generations, and it will still retain its beauty for the next generation. That’s the type of craftsmanship that goes into its making.

All types of jewelry like wedding rings, bands, bracelets, bridal tiaras, crowns etc. are made under the guidelines of fine jewelry. You can always find exquisite jewelry that is made for a special occasion or one that suits your personality.

When you are shopping for fine jewelry, there are a few tips that may help you get the best deal and quality. Buy it from a reputable dealer, check out the prices at various dealers first, before going in for anything.

This jewelry, whether it is being bought to be gifted as a token of love and affection, to add class to your best dresses, or to be able to pass it on to the next generation as a heirloom, or as an investment for the future, is the best buy for any occasion, like any jewelry crafted by the best artisans in the world is.

Gifts of jewelry are the best kinds of gifts a woman can receive. Exclusive fine jewelry makes the best gift of all. How about gifting a beautiful piece of this jewelry to your mother, who is always left behind where gifts are concerned. Whether you are a man or a woman, make the next birthday a memorable one for your mom. Why am I asking you to gift it to your mom? Because, she is a special person and you would love to see the glint in her eyes when you gift her a simple yet beautiful piece of fine jewelry.

Herman Tumurcuoglu is an consultant of Diamond. You can find more information here about Fine Jewelry.

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The word jewelry is derived from the word jewel, which was anglicized from the Old French “jouel” in around the 13th century.

If you are beauty conscious and wish to look more and more beautiful, then gems and jewelry are the best way for looking beautiful. Women take special care towards their look, jewelery is their first choice for looking unique.

On the eve of special events like marriage party, birth day party, reception party and other occasions, women can go for numerous type of jewelry made of aquamarine, amethyst, blue topaz, citrine, garnet, tanzanite, diamond etc.  Jeweleries like rings, bracelets, pendants, earrings, necklaces; nose rings, brooches and anklets are the most appreciated jewelries. Today there are numerous companies and manufacturers who are engaged in manufacturing various kinds of jewelries.

Indian gems and jewelery have been admitted the world’s most exquisite items because of its design and quality. India is a rich source of numerous jewelries and gems in this sphere. It is India only where jewelry are made for every part of the body. Here the range of gems and jewelry is varied from religious to purely aesthetic one. Gems and jewelry crafted in India is not only for humans but it is for gods, ceremonial elephants and horses. It is the Indian jewelry, which has been given a royal patronage from ancient time. Indian manufacturers make such kind of gems and jewelry, which is not only eye-catching but it is traditional as well as modern also.

Due to modern trends and fashion, gems and jewelry industries are swiftly modernizing. Today’s gems and jewelry manufacturers first make a research in the market for knowing the demand of customers. As this study helps them in manufacturing the product according to the desire and demand of the customers.

The manufacturer of gems and jewelry not only produce them, but they also provide full information about how to keep them safe so that they can last for long and look elegant and beautiful. They also produce boxes for keeping these jewelries and gems safely.

Due to the vast demand of gems and jewelries in the market a number of companies have emerged. This is the main cause that proper marketing of the product have taken essential place in this sphere.

Get Complete Information on Indian Jewelry Exporters please visit the following Link
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Making our ideas come to life and creating them with our own hands is a great source of satisfaction for many of us. Handicrafts such as making hemp jewelry have been and continue to be very popular among both hobbyists and would-be entrepreneurs alike.

Aside from being a productive way to pass time, making hemp jewelry encourages creativity and is a great and inexpensive way to have fun either by one’s own self or with friends and family.

Growing hemp is illegal in the United States because it comes from a variety of the cannabis plant, from which the drug marijuana is derived. Commercial hemp is the fiber used in making hemp jewelry, and it’s available in numerous arts and crafts stores nationwide. The benefits of wearing and making hemp jewelry are numerous: it is attractive in its uniqueness, it is strong and durable, it can be customized in myriad ways, and it is environmentally friendly.

Fashion designers, including Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren, are including hemp-made accessories among their offerings. Also, celebrities such as actor Woody Harrelson have been vigorously endorsing fashion accessories made from hemp (and he has had several brushes with the law because of his ardor).

Making hemp jewelry doesn’t take much getting used to. It is similar to macrame in that involves a lot of knot-tying. The beauty of it is you are free to experiment with various knots and weaves to create unique and attractive patterns. You can also accent hemp jewelry with beads of different colors and sizes. Dyed hemp fibers are available in a wide range of colors and textures, so it’s fun to think of how to make several hemp rings, necklaces, bracelets and anklets that will go with your everyday outfits. Sources of inspiration abound, including numerous web sites that specialize in hemp fashion.

Hemp jewelry has been associated with the hippie culture of the 1960s and that’s not a bad thing. It’s a relic from that era that has evolved to fit with today’s fashion trends, with both the young and not-so-young wearing it all the time. But making hemp jewelry does not have to be confined to a certain genre or style. What’s important is the fun factor, as well as the satisfaction experienced in a job well done.

Sam Serio is an Internet Marketer, musician and a writer on the subject of jewelry and gemstones. For more information on jewelry and gemstones, we cordially invite you to visit http://www.morninglightjewelry.com to pick up your FREE copy of “How To Buy Jewelry And Gemstones Without Being Ripped Off.” This concise, informative special report reveals almost everything you ever wanted to know about jewelry and gemstones, but were afraid to ask. Get your FREE report at http://www.morninglightjewelry.com

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To Your Immdiate and Jewelry Making Success,

Kenney Jr.
Blog-n-Butter
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