Diamond Dilemma — to Buy or is There an Alternative?

Valentine's day is just around the corner with heart-shaped postcards and sweets in every shop window. But for those who plan to engage this day (this is the most popular day for such an event), there can be some worries about – an engagement ring. Traditionally, it is a diamond ring and if you are still thinking of making a proposal, it can hit your pocket greatly. But are there alternative options that would cost less? Continue reading to find that!

1. A ring with a heirloom diamond. Diamonds are everlasting and they are known as handed-down things in many families. So if you have such a diamond you can have it set into a vintage ring. It won't cost as much but this gift will indeed be priceless. It's like having a ring with its own history. There's a website “Turtle Love” offering vintage rings, so you can hunt for one if you want.

Raphaele Canot Diamond Jewelry Debut in the U.S.

Diamond gems are normally associated with solidity and sophistication. But as it turned out, much depends on jewelry design. Raphaele Canot opted for playful whimsical designs for her diamonds gems, unexpected color solutions and unusual combinations to show that diamond jewelery can be a fun!

Have you ever seen diamonds alongside enamel decoration of eye-popping colors? This is the mixture you won't find every day, but it looks flattering. It seems Ms. Canot could turn a classic diamond stone into a casual fling. 

Rahpaele Canot wanted to make a fresh approach and created an alternative to classic jewelry. You can see whether she succeeded on not from her Art-Deco-inspired bracelets and ring collection. There's a funny 'OMG' ring, that is actually a tribute to one of the most popular American exclamations 'Oh My God!'. It is made in a shape of lips, where a wearer has to insert a finger through an opened mouth to put it on. The upper lip is decorated with diamonds, while the whole idea of a lip motif is caught when one moves the finger. A smiling ring, a funny jewelry!

Apple Watch Shining in Diamonds

Do you want the hottest smartwatch to start this new 2015 year with? It's definitely Apple Watch, what these are diamonds that make it really an iconic piece of jewelry.

The basic version of Apple Watch costs $349 and its gold alternative cost as much as $5,000. If that is still a small price tag you are fond of diamond jewelry than you can order diamond encrusted Apple Watch from Mervis, but be ready to pay around $30,000 per item. The device is not yet available for purchase. A customer can pre-order the device now but still it will be ready not sooner than in summer 2015.

Some Ways to Get Your Memories Saved

Life is short but still there's enough time to make so many mistakes to people we love. Sometimes it seems nothing can help to redeem it, especially if a person passed away. No one can bring him/her back but there's one way that can help you have him/her closer with you for a bit longer — turning ashes to memorable thing.

The tradition of keeping an urn of ashes on your mantleplace is giving way to a new trend, when you can have personalized memorials of your close person, or even pass them to next generation. The co-operative named Memorials Walshall offers a range of options how to make the memories of a dead person unforgettable: either to turn them into painting, or body tattoo, or blast them in space or even make a diamond jewelry. Let's focus on the last option.

Julien Macdonald Unveiled a Multi-Million-Dollar Diamond-Encrusted Wedding Dress

How many Welsh fashion designer do you know? Laura Ashley, Kate Lambert, Timothy Everest are among them but Julien Macdonald is the one that is most talked about now. The reason is his diamond-encrusted wedding dress which he unveiled during Fashion Week 2014 in London.

This was the highlight of Macdonald's show, the podium was a match to a gown's beauty – the Royal Opera House. The dress was presented by Abbey Clancy while the Welsh designer got a status of the king of sparkle. The price was also announced - $6.5 million!

Alternative or Ethical Diamond Wedding Rings

Even though the technological development never stands still, some people aspire for ethical options rather than modern ones. Not only super up-to-date devices are meant, but it also concerns engagement and wedding rings.

Diamond mining is one of the most devastating procedure that has a global influence. No matter what most of the miners say, the destructive results of diamond extraction are evident. With that people are prone to steady traditions and it seems there is nothing to break one when a man has to propose with a diamond ring. No one can say where it came from but surely no one is going to put an end to it. Even more, with time it became cluttered with myths and legends about a meaning of a diamond in a ring. So to find the balance between these two ideas there are 3 alternative ethical diamond rings options for environmentally conscious people:

Celebrating Mother's Day with Timeless Presents

How do you celebrate Mother's Day? Though the role of being a mom is in a non stop mode and this is only one day in a year to celebrate it, this is still a nice chance to say 'thank you' to your closest person in the world. When getting older nearly every person realizes how much efforts and sleepless nights were spent to invest in future of a child. Logically, there appears the desire to somehow repay with gratitude. Thus a present can reveal your real attitude to your moms. So what is this present? There is a list of most popular presents for the Mother's Day.

Gifts Celebrities Get on Valentine's Day

Celebrities are probably the most unpredictable people: you never know what will come to their mind taking into account their financial possibilities are nearly unlimited. When the St. Valentine's Day is around the corner this is just a nice reason to speak about their most remarkable Valentine's Day's gifts ideas.

Some say celebs don't differ much from ordinary people. Some of them maybe not but have you ever seen an ordinary person presenting a carousel horse to a dear husband? One year a caring wife Courtney Cox presented her husband David Arquette with you already know what. Who knows maybe it was his cherished childhood dream to have a carousel horse and once he got one it made him overwhelmingly happy. Another happy celebrity person was Beyonce who got a platinum cell phone from Jay-Z. This was definitely a unique present since count on the fingers the number of such phone owners in the world. Of for example, one year George Clooney surprised his Valentine Sarah Larson with a romantic night in a $40,000 hotel suite. But regardless of all the extravagances the most popular present for Valentine's Day among celebs still remain jewelry, in most cases it's diamond jewelry:

Give Your Sweetheart a Diamond Heart

No secret this is the heart that is the omnipresent symbol of Valentine's Day. It can be seen everywhere: in heart-shaped Valentine's card, red- or gold-foil wrapped chocolates and heart-shaped diamond jewelry. By the way, the last one is the most popular shape to be presented on V-Day. Want to find out why? Here's the story.
Both ancient Egyptians and Greeks treated hear as the most important organ. It is crucial to the body being responsible for thoughts, believes, reasons and emotions. No secret love is one of the strongest emotions. In the Middle Ages much attention had been paid to a heart symbol that was widely depicted in many pictures. It was associated with the morality and romance as well as with fully devotion to Christ. You may notice it was depicted emitting light that is the heart full of love of Jesus. Moreover, heart had been idealized to unbelievable extents – it was incorporated into the comprehension of afterlife. But it wouldn't have been that esthetically beautiful once it was depicted as a true-to-life muscle organ. So the heart shape as we know it today was first presented by Italian and Belgium artists around the 14th century.

Dug Out a Diamond with Bare Hands

The Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, Arkansas, never lacks visitors. People with a never fading hope to find there the most beautiful gem there visit it on a regular basis, just like Terry Staggs, a lucky guy who found his so passionately desired gem after about 28 years of non-stopping searching.

Crater of Diamonds is the only park on the globe open to people where every visitor has a chance to find natural diamonds, literally speaking a diamond-producing park. Terry Staggs is known as a regular visitor of the park.

Show Off Your Pride For Your Country

The 4th of July is a great holiday for the whole American nation. This is the day when every citizen can retrospect to a period of country formation, to see how huge the changes are and to thank God for the time we are living in now.

Each holiday is a good reminder of the events in the past but in order to make it more visual there should be kind of symbols. As for the Independence Day there are more than enough attributes of the holiday: stars and stripes seen everywhere from meals to T-shirts, unforgettable firework show, traditional movies watched on this day and an eagle symbol. Let's pay attention to the last from the row.

Probably the Best Present Idea for Mother's Day

If you are racking your brains over what present to choose for your mom to make her happy on her Mother's Day this year, then this information is to help you cope with this 'present selection' routine.

Selecting a gift is not a daunting task when you know what the presentee likes or wants to get. For example, if your mom is fond of indoor gardening houseplants, then a set of shovels or some gardening tools inside a beautiful flower pot will please her more than any other present. Or you can find out what is her favorite plant and look for a rare species to impress her. In case knitting is her fave, you can pamper her with some accessories like a pretty basket or an organizer that she would love to have. But if you are not on a budget and you are looking for an exceptional gift to underline your mom's great importance for you, you can decide on a diamond jewelry.

Diamond-Encrusted Addition to Lady's Wardrobe — Million-Dollar Shoes

With a diamond-encrusted sun glasses, leather belt with a diamond-encrusted buckle luxury lingerie and many more diamond covered attires a diamond lover can really make up a whole wardrobe of extravagant outfits. Now add a pair of diamond stiletto shoes to that list.

This is a pair of unique hand-strassed, diamond-encrusted shoes created by Evelyn Fox, the founder of Crystal Heels™. Fox, who has been in the fashion industry for very many years already, claims to know much in high-end fashion. She always strives to turn common shoes into exquisite accessories, striking and eye-catching. But this time she made her best – mouth-watering diamond-encrusted pumps priced at $1 million. This is rather a jewelry than a pair of shoes, don't you think so?

Valentine's Day Gift Ideas

 

Choosing a present can be both challenging and tiresome since the main idea is to please the presentee and you may not know that is the pleasing thing really is. Speaking about Saint Valentine's Day, this is even a more confusing task to select the right gift: not the one that is needed but the one that is desired, that can also show your feelings in the best way possible. You may find it sounds too radical, but Valentine's Day is a once-a-year chance to make something special being inspired by loving atmosphere prevailing everywhere around.

Christmas Gift Ideas that Never Fail

 

Christmas in not simply around the corner, it's in the doorway already. Time flies but it seems to fly even faster when the holidays approach and it often happens that all our plans about buying presents beforehand go awry. In agony we are trying then to think about what would be the best present for each member of our kin. Indeed, it's a hard task to decide but we can help you with at least one idea for present for your love one – diamond jewelry, 100% a win-win present.

Some would like to drop reading further once they heard about diamonds, please don't! Yes, diamonds are expensive and may far exceed your holiday presents budget, but here we are going to talk about affordable diamonds to fit your wallet perfectly.

Lab grown diamonds, or also called man made diamonds, can be a great present for any holiday including Christmas. Not hard to guess from the name that they are grown in the laboratory instead of being dug from under the ground. Nevertheless they are real diamonds with real diamond core. The technology of growing diamonds is quite sophisticated but to describe it short there is a tiny piece of real mined diamond placed in the chamber where in extremely high temperature and under high pressure with the help of carbon it grows. These are actually the conditions found in the Earth mantle, which are needed for diamonds to be formed, they are merely reproduced in the laboratory. With this, diamonds created this way are real diamonds acquiring all properties intrinsic to mined stones. So diamond jewelry made with the use of created diamonds look stunning and natural so that it's really hard to say the origin of the gems set in it.

It's not a secret that the competition between mined and lab grown diamonds is really tough with many pros and cons speaking for each side. Most often you will hear ambiguous views concerning non-natural diamonds, in this regard you can always talk to your loved person about what he/she thinks about such gems weighting everything up. Or if you want it to be a surprise, you should better spy this information out in a tricky way.

There is always a risk you can be cheated and offered false diamond, but it can happen regardless of whether you are dealing with mined diamonds or lab ones. Certificate that proves diamond identity is the best guarantee this is the product of high quality and costs the money.

There is no time left for talking, better look through our online shop for some presents.

$5 million Birthday Present for a Precious Husband

It's hard to say the value of a present that is to symbolize true fillings of a gift buyer, but Beyonce seemed to set the price - $5 million. This is really a very generous present she gave to her literally brilliant husband Jay-Z, one of the most talented rappers in the world.

This diamond-encrusted watch called 'Big Bang' is not simply a strikingly expensive thing (it indeed is!) but also a single copy of the most pricey wristwatch ever made by Hublot. It is covered with 1,282 diamonds of colorless diamonds of various shape to suit the design. Let us remind that on December 4 Jay-Z celebrated his 43rd birthday. Not only a rapper he is but a notable entertainer, recognizable starlet and now a perfect eye-catcher due to his new watch.

Well, at least diamond-encrusted watch is not that extravagant thing like grills, flash drive or lingerie.

An Idea for Thanksgiving Presents

'To stuff a turkey or not to stuff' is not the only dilemma on Thanksgiving Day. This is the best day for making thanks, but while you can give thanks to God in prayers mostly, this holiday can be a nice occasion to show your love and gratitude to your nearest ones in more materialistic way by giving presents. And again diamond jewelry can stand you in good stead.

This year the holiday is celebrated on November 22nd, so you have little time left for deciding on Thanksgiving Day menu and presents. Among a wide choice of presents jewellery has its niche, too. As it's estimated, jewelry sales increase on about 16% during Thanksgiving weekend. Depending on customers' financial situation they can opt for cheaper items or more expensive ones – diamonds.

The choice of a jewel depends on customer's taste of course but it is claimed that religious jewelry, such as crosses, is more popular during these days. On the one hand, they may signify your gracious attitude to the person, but on the other may give a kind of protection from evil forces. While the last may be doubtful, the thing that is sure is that diamonds will be an excellent present for any occasion. Wearproof, longlasting, amazingly beautiful and sparkling they can make any lady happy just instantly. And while your mom or wife will be fussing over the Thanksgiving meal, you can come up to her from behind and put a chain with diamond pendant on to her neck. An unforgettable evening this will be! Wish you a happy Thanksgiving!