The green stones were shining on Proliance Surgery RN Teresa Meggs! When she's not at Proliance, you can find Teresa organizing The University of Washington Husky Athletics Baseball School. #godawgs!
Here are the pieces Teresa chose!
Yellow Gold Byzantine Bracelet
Co-founder of GroundWorx, Nicole Knowles, chose some f-a-b-u-l-o-u-s pieces for her photoshoot! The Plymouth Housing Group is lucky to have Nicole as a supporter!
Missy Smith of the MVMNT Method picked some fabulous pieces! We love how well all of these go together! While Missy is often busy teaching at the Bellevue Club, she does find time to support The Lambert House!
Yellow Gold Lattice Diamond Bracelet
Glam! Glam! Glam! Today, we're featuring local Real Estate Agent, Carmen Gayton. Carmen is actively involved in many organizations, including Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation, Inc. Here are the pieces Carmen chose to sport during her photoshoot:
Cushion Yellow Diamond Bracelet
Round Earrings + Round Pendant + Round Ring = Perfection coming from Deborah Juarez!
#WhatSheWore today features Debbie Nordstrom, an amazing green diamond, one of our favorite bracelets, and our own Gordon Raine, The Diamond Man Hat!
Julie Hall is rocking that statement Triple Band Tanzanite Ring ring!
#WhatSheWore today features Sarah Rowe and she chose to wear one of our favorite pieces, the reversible Opal Pendant. This particular stone was so amazing, we couldn't decide which side we liked best, so we made a pendant that allowed for the center to rotate!
Here's the scoop on the other beautiful pieces Sarah wore:
File this look under, 'Perfect Accessories for Golf'. We approve, Gayle Andrews! Here are the details of what Gayle decided to try out during her photoshoot:
Tennis Bracelet while playing Tennis? We approve, Julie Gulick!
Stunning 5 carat Yellow Diamond Ring? Check. Fabulous stackable Bracelets? Double Check! #WhatSheWore today features Sun Chaney and all of the above!
#WhatSheWore today features Lisa Fleischman and some fabulous Sapphires, Tanzanites and Diamonds!
The oranges looked amazing on Lisa! Read below for specifics:
We loved the Sapphire pieces Kim chose!
Quite the glam look for Alischia, here are the pieces she chose:
Julie chose some amazing pieces to showoff:
Next up, Judy Petrie! Judy wore the following stunning pieces at her photoshoot:
The first of the #WhatSheWore series starts with Annette Ailing! Here are the details of what Annette wore at her Gordon James photoshoot:
Wow, time is flying! Our June 2017 ad is already out on newsstands, and we feature a lot of great jewelry. To get the scoop on the items featured, scroll down!
Bracelets (from top to bottom):
-B-1869, Yellow Gold Lattice Bracelet
-B-2008, Diamond Tennis Bracelet, available in many carat weights
-B-2070, Diamond Byzantine-style Bracelet
-B-2163, Golf Bracelet with Brushed Finish
-B-2112, Diamond Bangle Bracelet
Rings (from top to bottom):
-TSR-854, 3-Row, 3-Stone ring
-LFY020, Fancy Deep Brownish Yellow Pear Diamond
April showers may bring us May flowers, but it’s also blessed to have diamond as its gemstone. Ruby’s Sanskrit name of “ratnaraj” may loosely translate to mean “king of precious stones” and as a July man myself I’m not going to argue, but if ruby is king that makes diamond god. This post began as a bit of a listicle of my favorite diamond facts. As I Googled for funsies/research, I discovered there’s a lot of bad information out there. So instead of my favorite facts, I’m going to dispel the most offensive misinformation.
1) Diamonds are the hardest natural substance. This is true. What gets lost in the translation is how strong they are. Part of that is because the Mohs hardness scale is an ordinal scale; it’s not exponential but it’s kind of close… kind of. By some measurements, diamonds are 4 times harder than sapphires (10 and 9 on the Mohs hardness scale), by other measurements diamonds are 58 times stronger. Note: harder and stronger are two, somewhat arbitrary, units of measurements. Think of it this way, diamonds are Superman and sapphires are the Hulk. Both are super strong, but Superman is stronger, how much is difficult to ascertain; this would be true even without the DC/Marvel impossibility of this question.
2) This comic/screencap:
I’ll give him credit for crushing it already faceted, but that’s the worst proportioned diamond I’ve ever seen.
This day and age it’s impossible to know what people believe. Maybe people think this actually works and is how synthetic diamonds are grown. It’s not; it’s not 100% wrong, but it mainly is. Still a cool image, I don’t know why every Superman movie doesn’t have this scene in it, if just to explain how a reporter that is working at most 10 hours a week (remember he’s a superhero in a crime ridden city) can afford such a nice apartment in downtown New York Metropolis/a giant Ice Castle.
3) This one bugged me. “D, E and F are colourless diamonds. Since there is no colour found in them, there is no difference in colour. The only difference in these diamonds is the transparency. D is more transparent that E, E is more transparent than F.”
That is simply not true. There’s not really a relationship between transparency and color (insofar as diamonds go). If by definition D is the only colorless diamond, E and F color stones can’t be as well. E and F are in the colorless tier (by GIA standards) but they still have slight traces of color miniscule may they be. Batman might be in the same leadership tier in the Justice League, but without some Kryptonite infused weaponry, the coup against Superman is going to fail. There can be only one.
4) We bring this one up a lot in person; stones with identical certificates, same color, same clarity, same cut grades, do NOT always look the same. This is where shopping locally at independent stores can be so helpful. We live in an age of information being relatively available, but come on, do you really think it’s likely you can pick up as much knowledge as say, somebody that’s been looking and grading diamonds for 40 years opposed to 40 minutes of google research? Of course not. That’s where the expertise comes in. A good jeweler isn’t looking to milk you dry after one sale; the relationship should be more advisory and long-term. That’s service you can’t find online or say at certain membership wholesalers. Factoring in the advice, actual expertise, and long term commitment/maintenance, I don’t see how the argument for superior value found online exists.
Same paper, but pretty different results.
5) The last major misconception is that diamonds are sold at a huge markup. At some point this was probably true, especially before the modern pipeline and cutting techniques. The truth, as in most industries, the internet vastly changed the diamond selling market. Costco and online middle men have undoubtedly lowered prices and margins, which is undeniably a benefit for the modern consumer. This misconception, coupled with the fact that every diamond is unique, has in a way lead to dangerous levels of confidence. Truth is, every diamond is unique, as I mentioned earlier; this is why you need the expertise of an actual jeweler. Especially for engagement rings, odds are outside of a car; this is going to be your biggest purchase to date, why wouldn’t you want an expert’s opinion? If it were as simple as lining up crown angles to the respective table percentage and making sure the pavilion angle is complimentary, everybody would do it. It’s more complicated than that, there’s an art to the science. We may not paint with paints over here (Gretchen excluded), but damn if we can’t put together a masterpiece with natures truest colors.
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