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Green is Good: Green Smoothie Recipe

I’m sure I’ll be writing about a lot of green gems this year, but this is another shade of green! Yesterday’s post garnered more attention for my green smoothie recipe than for the jewelry featured! Since so many of you requested it, I figured it deserved a mention…

Welcome New Year: Lucky (20)13

Happy New Year! While I don’t necessarily love all the recapping-ad-nauseam, compulsive-list-compiling, and (probably) fruitless-resolution-drafting that accompany the end of one year and start of the next, there IS something nice about a shiny clean slate…

Jewelry Designer Spotlight: Alexandra Hart

Designer and goldsmith Alexandra Hart is deeply committed to ethical sourcing for metals and gemstones for her nature-inspired jewelry designs. Dramatic, yet somehow balanced…

Contemporary Jewelry Design Group Members Shine in Sparkle for Sandy Relief Auction

The Sparkle for Sandy Relief Auction is a remarkable collaboration of over 90 jewelry designers and a New York jewelry retailer who pulled it all together. The designer jewelry is being auctioned to help Waves for Water

Greenwich Jewelers Sparkle for Sandy Relief Jewelry Auction

Jennifer Gandia, co-owner of Greenwich Jewelers in downtown Manhattan, watched the path of destruction through lower Manhattan and coastal communities with a heavy heart. Jennifer and the Greenwich Jewelers team felt compelled to do something…

Jewelry Designer Spotlight: LAGOS Celebrates 35 Years

It’s fairly remarkable when a jewelry designer can say they have been around for 35 years. It is even more remarkable to be a fashionable, on-trend designer and celebrate that anniversary. LAGOS not only celebrates 35 years in jewelry design…

Jewelry Designer Spotlight: Syna Jewels

Syna means “together”, and the designers of the Syna jewelry line perfectly embody that word. Dharmesh and Namrata Kothari are the principal designers of the line—and they are also married. “Together” could also…

Jewelry Giveaway: Fragments.com Jewelry Gift Guide and Giveaway

I am so thrilled to announce an exciting jewelry giveaway sponsored by Fragments.com! One lucky reader is going to WIN a $750 Gift Card to Fragments.com to apply towards any piece of jewelry on their website!

Jewelry Designer Spotlight: Jane Bohan Jewelry

On a recent trip to NYC, I was fortunate enough to connect with jewelry designer Jane Bohan in her bright, lovely SoHo studio…

Jewelry to Benefit Sandy Relief: Joan Hornig Necklace

We are all struggling to comprehend the damage and destruction caused by Superstorm Sandy. A friend in Manhattan described life there as a “new world now”. I am always inspired…