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

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.

    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.”

David Ortiz has a ring so big and blocky and shiny that friends assume it’s a World Series ring. It’s not.

The real thing he says is only worn on special occasions. “I was wearing it one time and a fan here in Boston grabbed my hand and almost broke my finger.”

The Sox’s definitely didn’t hold back a bit when giving out 500 rings for 2004. A ruby “B” was bedecked with 14 large diamonds and another 5 smaller diamondsto give the ring more bling.

Interested in knowing more about this amazing diamondring check out this site for more information http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/

2008/04/08/jewelry_in_store/?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed7.

The break in happened in Bessingby Road, Bridlington during broad daylight between the hours of 10am and 3pm, where burglars made an untidy search of the house before stealing the jewellery.

Out of 6 items 3 engagement rings were stolen 1 which featured a flower design formed out of a ruby and diamonds, a man’s gold dress ring and a gold eternity ring with rubbies embedded in half  the band.

Among those items there were also a gold engagement ring, this one with blue sapphires surrounding a diamond, a gold eternity ring, with raised blue sapphires covering half the band and a gold chain.

Nothing else but these items where believed to have been taken.

For one couple tears of sadness marked their 8 year anniversary. Thieves broke into their home stealing all there priceless family heirlooms and $19,000 in cash.

For this couple instead of going out and enjoying their anniversary they spent it going over a list of there stolen items some of which included engagement rings belonging to the wives mother as well of four years worth of savings.

An estimated total of more than $70,000 worth of goods was taken after the thieves used a power drill to open a secured safe that the couple kept in a bomb shelter.

The couple says that they don’t care how or who returns any of the items they just want their wedding pictures and engagement rings back.

Have you ever lost something so important to you and taught you would never find it. Well for one lucky couple something very similar took place.

On a cold brisk day in winter Samantha Hayes went for a walk down the promenade for some time to reflect on the tragic event that had just taken place in her life.

As she was sitting on a bench holding a cup of coffee to keep warm she removed one of her gloves not realizing her 18 century old engagement ring came off with it. As she reached into her bag to grab a tissue she saw her engagement ring fly up into the air and into the water.

Unlike most people Samantha didn’t panic she quickly picked up her cell and phoned her husband who immediately came to search for the ring.

2 days and rented metal detectors latter the couple decided to call off there search and wait with hope till the weather became nicer and they would search again.

To there very dismay 2 weeks latter they saw a commercial for a guy named Chris Turner who calls him self the “treasure finder.”

This man owns a unique business where his mission is to find other treasures which have been lost. Chris however will only accept payment on a donation passes giving half of the proceeds to With nothing to lose.

On March 1st turner arrived at the home of the couple with his equipment in hand. He truly hoped to help the couple find love beloved engagement ring.

Despite the fact that the engagement ring had already been missing for 2 months Turner had very high hopes and with in 15min. the ring was found.

The couple was thrilled they honestly taught they would never have seen the ring again and had already filed a claim with there insurance company.

Turner says that this happens to alot of people and he is thrilled to be able to give them a second chance with beloved jewels.

To contact Chris Turner you can call 778-838-3463 or visit www.treasuretalk.com .

As the day came to an end and the market’s came to a close yesterday we left with gold being worth $985 an ounce.

Coins and currency have been booming this past year. When people realize how much they can get for there little gold coins that are tucked away so nice in there jewelery boxes its almost as if the have won the lottery.

With the price of gold being so high it has started a small trend of its own “GOLD PARTIES” and why would someone not want to have one. During the party all your friends and family can bring in there gold rings  gold jewelery ext. and have an expert check them out.

If you’ve got the right stuff you can get a very large pay out. So with that being said if you have something that’s just tucked away collecting dust and its not that important maybe it’s time for you to have some luck and a nice payout.

A 32 year old women named Hilary Williams- Smith filed an appeal today to help her find her missing wedding and engagement rings.

Hillary currently attends Birmingham college as a student studying to be a person trainer. Where she went to use the ladies room to wash her hands; she took of her rings and placed them on the side washed her hands and forgot to place the rings back on again.

When Hillary had realized only a few short minutes latter that she had forgotten to put them back on she ran back to the bathroom and when she got there they were gone.

Hillary was devastated. She say’s that she doesn’t care about who took them or why they took them but all she wants is for the person to give them back.

To Hillary these rings mean everything and are one of her most cherished positions so if you happen to know who took them or what may have happened to them. Be a good person step up anonymously give them back so she can have that small piece that is missing from her heart returned.