Diamonds & Engagement Rings News

Soon after Leviev tried to open two other jewelry stores in the Emirate, on Mother’s Day eve he posted an ad in the New York Times with the title, “Happy Mother’s Day.”

Mother’s Day was originally established in 1870 by an abolitionist and activist named, Julia Ward Howe, in order to unite women against war. Instead, it seems like its being turned into another day for making money in the diamond district.

Together with the very brutal Dos santos regime, Leviev hires the Angolan security  company to mine diamonds in Angola. The Angolan security companies have been indicted of, “humiliation, whipping, torture, sexual abuse, and in some cases assassinations.” The area in which Leviev mines, making his millions of dollars annually, also has the poorest of people in the country, sometimes without schools, health services, roads, or even filtered water.

Mothers, mainly Arab and Jewish mothers, were at a fury with Leviev for using Mother’s Day as a day of profit. Therefore, a boycott was developed by Adalah-NY along with some New York mothers and Palestinian mothers from the West Bank, in two villages where Leviev had built settlements.

The angry mothers felt that since the governemtn isn’t going to do anything about the situation, they were. A group of women made colorful Mother’s Day cards labeled, “A Special Mother’s Day Greeting about the Lev Leviev Group of Companies.” Beneath that was a picture of a woman protesting. These cards were being distributed right in front of the Lev Leviev store on Madison, in NYC. The goal of this boycott is to deprecate violence, support humanrights, and stop using Mother’s Day as a day of profit for corporations.   Â

The secret was hard to keep but now that Jenna Bush is married people should know where her dazzling engagement ring was designed.

Henry Hager, now the husband of Jenna Bush was looking for an antique designed engagement ring for his future wife, something similar to his great- grandmother’s diamond ring.

Jane Sternheimer, owner and president of Charles Schwarzschild Inc. was lucky enough to have found out about the engagement before the question was popped to Jenna. Hager had come to her company for the ring. Jae Sternheimer says, “Henry had well considered ideas regarding the type of ring he wished to present: classic and conservative….. He wanted the center stone to be flanked with sapphires and the ring to be made in platinum.”

Not to waste much time, Sternheimer began making phone calls in search for matching sapphires. Sternheimer finally got the sapphires and had the ring ready to be picked up on August ninth, the day Hager had asked for it.

Hager and his mother came to pick up the ring and while Hager’s mother snapped a few photo shots, Hager rattled on about his plans. On his way out of Sternheimer’s jewelry store, Hager was very polite and modest as to make sure to slip a thank you note on Jane’s desk.  Â

Day by day, headlines are posted on newspapers describing how bad consumer spending has become in the U.S. The entire year of 2008 is calculated to approximately spend evenly as 2007. the estimated amount on diamonds and jewelry spending is $64-65 billion. Reporters keep getting it all wrong, especially now, when Americans are more cautious about spending on anything at all. An editor of a jewelry share took notice of this and warned his members to “stop listening to the TV and stop reading the newspaper.”

During February, $380 billion was spent on retail sales, which was flat with the past year. If the retail sales for February were an annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the country then American spending would be right above Belgium, and just below the Netherland’s Gross Domestic Product. When including other payments besides for retail sales, such as monthly payments and home mortgages, there is an estimate of $792 billion on spending, which is equivalent to Brazil’s GDP. It is pretty obvious that Americand haven’t stopped spending.

Even with all the spending, it is clear that a typical American is still holding back from spending too much. Due to the booming of the population and America being one of the fastest developing countries it makes it hard for consumers to spend less. As the population continues to grow and develop, products become cheaper such as, microwaves, TVs, clothing and appliances. In an average home there are multiple televisions, more clothing and toys, compared to . All in all we see that during bad times, they were able to keep a good budget because all through good times Americans spent wisely.  ¼/p>

Armed with knives and ski masks on, three men wait on the block by the LBJ Freeway, close to the Dallas North Tollway. Wednesday afternoon, around 3:00 p.m. a broker begins to make his way to his car with $750,000 worth of jewels in his suitcase, when seeing his car blocked by another car and three thieves standing in front of it.

The broker impulsively begins to run in the opposite direction while the thieves chase him. Once they get the suitcase, they slice his tires to be sure the broker doesnt come after them.

Luckily the broker was not injured or hurt.

Police said that close to where the diamonds have been stolen is a huge building filled with diamonds and jewelry brokers.

This incident is very much similar to a diamond theft that happened a month earlier. A Garland jeweler left his car parked outside the diamond building. Loaded in the trunk of the car was $600,000 worth of diamonds and pearls. When the jeweler returned an hour later the car was gone and was found by police the next morning by an apartment close by.

Known to be the sexiest woman of 2006, Scarlet Johansson has officially gotten engaged to the very well known attractive, Ryan Reynolds. While walking down the carpet, it seems like Johansson cannot be any happier, with the bright smile she’s had on all night, at the Costume Institute Gala. Johansson even does a favor for the paparazzi and flashes her new ring to the camera. 

But, how much more different can Scarlett’s stone be from any other celebrity’s engagement ring from the past, such as Mariah Carey or, Ashley Simpson?

Reynolds past fiancé received a 3.75-carat stone, although it is too soon to tell how many carats Scarlett has been given. Compared to the other celebrities, Scarlett’s stone appears to be very small.¼/p>

Finejewelrynews.com is a website that was launched recently for women who would like to share their interest in jewelry, as well as give and receive advice about it.

The website has a link called, “Fine Jewelry Connection,” which offers members to share ideas and advice, tell stories, or ask questions. “A View from You,” is another link that allows women to cast votes and find out similarities they have with other jewelry lovers.

Fine Jewelry News is very helpful to women with such interest in jewelry but, is also very much beneficial to the jewelry industry. The jewelry industry can get a good idea about what women think of jewelry and what’s important to them through Fine Jewelry News. With new ideas of jewelry designs on the website, the jewelry industry will be able to better serve their customers.

    Though diamonds last forever, what’s a girl to do with them after a breakup or divorce, when it becomes worthless in her eyes?

Just because breakups and divorce rates get higher does not mean the hurt lessens.

After much research, there was a result of no such website that provides in selling eternity bands, engagement rings, and other valuable jewelry from divorced or broken up relationships.

About a few months ago a website was created primarily for that cause. Marie Perry, a writer and actress, and her daughter-in-law, Meghan Perry, formed Exboyfriendjewelry.com.  The website was designed for selling jewelry that lost emotional spark. The site also has a page for women who would like to tell there own story behind the piece of jewelry.

In the past three months many blogs have been written. Launched with the slogan, “Don’t want it. He cant have it back,” and 3,000 registered users, it has been a very successful website.

Many of the stories are not so extreme. Although there are women who are said to come from abusive relationships that have affected them but, are now moving on.

This past April, another website has gone public by two New Orleans students. The website, Ex-cessories.com and its motto, “Don’t Get Mad-Break Even,” offers independent appraisals of jewelry, matches buyers with seller, and provides a shared network.

One of the women on this site comments on her posted diamond ring saying, “Beautiful ring came with the wrong man. Decided to sell to regain the money that I spent finishing payments on the ring that my ex didn’t.”

Rumor has it that Nick Canon has proposed to Mariah Carey, whom he dated for no more than a few months now. Mariah Carey is thrilled with her engagement ring, proudly boasting it, until finding out that she has been given the same ring nick gave to his ex-fiance, Victoria’s Secret model, Selita Ebanks.

Mariah Carey is well known for being a born-diva, expecting only the best, and nothing less. Unless the ring came from a family heirloom, it is very offending to give a woman the same ring given to an ex-fianc, especially a music idol that has a status to maintain.

Will Mimi actually accept the marriage proposal after all?