Jewel & Jewel

In an ad that ran in the Washington Post, Tiffany and Co. gave the U.S. Congress kudos for passing legislation that would ban the importation of all gemstones from Myanmar (formerly Burma) into the United States, including those that were processed in a third-party country.

Federal lawmakers had already passed legislation in 2003 that embargoed gemstones from Myanmar as a response to human rights violations by the government’s ruling military junta, which profits from state-run gem auctions. But the new legislation closes a U.S. Customs loophole that allowed the Burmese stones into this country if they were processed somewhere other than Myanmar, such as Thailand, which is known for cutting gemstones and using them to manufacture jewelry.

An estimated 90 percent of the world’s rubies originate in Myanmar and are known in the trade as “blood rubies.”

Tiffany and Co., in accordance with its corporate standards and practices, stopped the purchase of all rubies mined in Myanmar in 2003, and has continued its moratorium on Burmese rubies since then, despite the loophole.

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Fashion jewelry online retailer Eternal Sparkles does not give anyone a reason to look unglamorous under the hot, blazing summer sun. All fashion jewelry items, especially the most sought after fashion rings, CZ jewelry and sterling silver jewelry are up for a 20% discount. Any woman will continue to sparkle in high fashion during the summer heat!

City of Industry, CA (EternalSparkles.com)- Fashion jewelry is the perfect accessory for any summer outfit. Feel fabulous all season long with online fashion jewelry retailer Eternal Sparkles’ wide collection of fashion rings, CZ jewelry, and sterling silver jewelry. Constantly updating its fashion jewelry pieces to suit the current trend of the season, Eternal Sparkles guarantees that one will find the right fashion jewelry for whatever season and reason.

This summer’s hottest trends in fashion jewelry call for big, bold, and beautiful. The chunkier and more noticeable the fashion jewelry is, the better. However, not all chunky fashion jewelry is considered hot this season. If the color is not right, that fashion jewelry piece may be the culprit in ruining the entire outfit.

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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced that it is introducing a new jewelry line that allows customers to trace the origins of the materials through a Web site that links to mines and manufacturers.

The world’s largest retailer says its Love, Earth jewelry will be sold in a collaboration with the group Conservation International, based in Arlington, Va. Wal-Mart says companies producing the conservation-themed jewelry already show social and environmental leadership.

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By the end of this year, Mark Yelton hopes to move the jewelry business started 20 years ago by his father to a new location.

But it won’t change the length of his commute.

Yelton’s Fine Jewelry, 6066 West Chester Road, is building a new, 7,000-square-foot store at 9263 Schultze Drive, less than a mile south of its present location.

“We’ve been looking to relocate for a while,” said Mark Yelton. “We’ve really just outgrown this space … It was one of those things where it was just time to move.”

Store founder Roy Yelton said the new location, located where the Roadhouse Grill restaurant once stood, will provide excellent visibility.

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Dellanos is one of the most recognizable faces on Spanish-language television. An Emmy Award-winning journalist, she was co-host for 13 years of the popular television news program “Primer Impacto” on Univision.

“People en Espanol” named Dellanos its first “Estrella del Ano” (star of the year) in 2004. And this year, she and her daughter grace the pages of the magazine’s “Los 50 mas bello” (most beautiful people) issue.

Dellanos’ private life also has grabbed headlines - most notably her engagement to Mexican singing superstar Luis Miguel in 2004. (The engagement was later called off).

Now, it’s her creative side that’s making news. Dellanos is launching a jewelry line that bears her name.

The line was a chance for Dellanos to combine her business savvy with her love for jewelry design.

“Ever since I was in high school, I loved to design,” said Dellanos from her home in Miami. When she was on “Primer Impacto,” “I often drew jewelry pieces, and the women seemed to like them. I never thought it would be a business for me.”

Dellanos, 42, says jewelry, like a woman, should be multifaceted.

“We have different feelings every day,” she says. “Who wants to be sexy every day? You want to look professional for work. You want something that translates to evening when you’re out with your husband to a show or dinner.” You want pieces that are different and can work with your different moods and looks.”

The Myrka Dellanos jewelry collection includes necklaces, earrings, bracelets, watches and rings crafted in gold and silver tones decorated with bold colorful stones, beads and Swarovski crystals. The collection ranges in price from $39 to $119.

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As Wall Street fluctuates wildly and inflation devalues “money in the bank,” as the dollar weakens and oil prices soar, savy women may have the right investment idea. Women have known for years that “diamonds are a girl’s best friend,” but today they may be more than just a pretty bauble. “Experts in the diamond industry are paying close attention to the rate at which prices for fine quality diamonds have been escalating over the past year, and there is no sign of reversal for these high quality gems,” says gem expert Antoinette Matlins, author of Jewelry & Gems: The Buying Guide (GemStone Press, Woodstock, VT), “and we’re not the only ones watching the market—I’m getting calls from successful women looking for inflation protecting investments that will give them a guaranteed psychic as well as a possible financial return!”

But is this a sound idea? According to Matlins, who consults with clients around the world on their acquisition of jewelry and gems, it may be if done wisely. And, there are now unusual opportunities not just for fine diamonds but for fine colored gemstones as well because supply of these high quality stones is failing to keep up with demand. Matlins sees this gap widening over the next 10 years. “As wealth continues to spread to more people globally, demand is increasing for very fine quality diamonds weighing 2 carats or more, and very fine colored gems in varying sizes, but the supply of these gems is actually diminishing as existing mines are depleted,” Matlins explains.

Matlins predicts that the gap between supply and demand will widen even further as people in the Middle East and China become more interested in acquiring fine quality gemstones, resulting in even stronger prices.

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 Simply TeaVine will host the first ArTeast Festival from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 24 at the tea room, 1604 S. 28th Ave., Hattiesburg.

The festival will recognize the state’s numerous artistic talents and among those features will be Susan Kennon Carruth.

Carruth began working with metals in 1973 while working on her Masters of Fine Arts Degree at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. For the past 25 years, she has lived in Mississippi, where creates her hand forged “ArtObjects” in her Hattiesburg studio.

Her works are based mostly from precious metals such as gold and silver and create a variety of items from jewelry to flatware.

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Novori Inc. (OTCBB: NOVO) a leading online interactive retailer of fine diamond engagement rings and jewelry — is proud to announce that it has entered into an agreement with intent to merge with Zalemark Inc. The merger, which is subject to negotiation and execution of binding definitive documents, satisfaction of certain conditions precedent, approval by Novori shareholders and other ordinary and customary closing conditions for a transaction of this type, is anticipated to close June 21, 2008.

Since branding Zalemark in 2002, the Sherman Oaks, California-based design firm, headed by its dynamic CEO, Steven Zale, has developed its labels to include a diverse and impressive portfolio of premium branded jewelry collections, a growing number of which are celebrity endorsed. The firms licenses include the successful Seventeen Jewelry Collection®. Zalemark’s latest planned launches — a Bridal line and Couture line under the prestigious Badgley Mischka label and a fashion fine jewelry collection under the Hearst licensed ESQ brand — is debuting at the Couture Show, Villa 301, Wynn Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, May 28-June 2. Further information on these lines and their debut schedules will be released as confirmed.

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