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Archive for December 10th, 2007

Box Clasps

There are different types of jewelry clasps to keep your jewelry firmly around your neck/wrist/ankle. One popular type of clasp is called the box clasp.

Box clasps are made of two metal pieces that fit together like a puzzle. They open when you push down on the exterior lever of a wedge-shaped piece of metal, […]

Bidding Wars!

Bidding on products in our online jewelry auction is more fun than you might know! If you’d like to take a glimpse of just how exciting it might be, turn on your speakers and choose a product that has just a few minutes before the auction ends.

Just this morning I was checking out a […]

Jasper Lore

Jasper is an opaque variety of Chalcedony. Jasper comes in many color varieties, from red, brown and pink to yellow, green and even grey, white, blue and purple coloring. Jasper often boasts gorgeous patterns developed of organic material and mineral oxides. It is not uncommon to see a Jasper stone that resembles a mountain or […]

Topaz Glamour

Topaz is one of those precious gems we all love to adore. It comes in all colors and shades. Yellow topaz is the birthstone of November and is the state gemstone for Utah. Of course, topaz is most commonly known by its yellow coloring, but topaz is also the birthstone of December—in the blue variety. […]

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What is Chalcedony?

Some pieces in our online jewelry auction feature a stone called chalcedony. Chalcedony is a very fine-grained silica mineral quartz stone. True to its quartz family nature, it comes in a large variety of colors. Most commonly, this stone is seen in blue-white, buff, tan, yellow or brown coloring.
Chalcedony was used by Native American Indians […]