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Martha Lee’s Jewelry is the ideal place to shop for Christmas gifts this year, especially if you’re looking for something thoughtful and distinctive. As soon as you walk through the front door, you are surrounded by beautiful colors and textures assuring you that you have come to the right place.

The locally-owned store offers an array of vintage costume jewelry including Sarah Coventry, Corro, Weiss, and Listner. Jade Jewelry Owner Terry Meriano has operated the store for over 30 years, taking it over after her mother, the store’s namesake, was in an accident. Meriano, who fondly remembers playing in her mother’s jewelry box when she was a little girl, has even brought much of her private collection to the store.

Martha Lee’s Jewelry has something for everyone. She has beautiful pieces from under $10 to several hundred dollars. The variety of vintage pieces is splendid. She has pendants, pins, earrings, necklaces in all shapes and sizes and each one makes a statement. 

China remains Asia's biggest emerging market for jewelry, but Vietnam and Myanmar are now showing signs of growth according to experts at the International Jewelry Fair in Hong Kong. Diamonds and white jewelry also remain hugely popular in South East Asia. It's one of the designs inspired by traditional Chinese features, which are proving popular this year as buyers hunt for unique jewelry y products.

Traditional sparkling diamonds and elegant gems are always popular. But facing the gloomy economy in the West and the relatively weak purchasing power in the US and Europe, jewelers are gradually shifting their focus to the emerging Chinese and South East Asian markets. Iris Kan, owner of Golden Master Jewelry, said, "The markets in the US and Europe are almost saturated. Jade Jewelry

Although the Chinese market is blooming, our focus is not on Chinese mainland but on the South East Asian market. The demand is very great in many emerging countries like Vietnam and Myanmar. We have lots of clients there." Kan added that Asian customers favor more traditional designs, and they particularly like diamonds.

A “substantial amount” of jewelry found in the French safe-deposit boxes and apartment of former Seattle real-estate magnate Michael R. Mastro and his wife, Linda, almost certainly will mean more money for Mastro’s creditors, the trustee in Mastro’s bankruptcy case says.

James Rigby said Monday that French police last week seized two safe-deposit boxes Jade Jewelry— each bigger than a shoebox and “stuffed” with jewelry — in Annecy, a city in the French Alps near the village where the Mastros were arrested last month after more than a year on the lam.

Among the gems: two giant diamond rings, with an estimated value of $1.4 million, that have played a central role in the Mastros’ bankruptcy and criminal cases.

“It’s got to be worth a tremendous amount of money,” the court-appointed trustee added. While he doesn’t yet have an inventory, he said, the recovered jewels’ value is “potentially millions of dollars.”

They are in the possession of French authorities, he said, but they should be returned to Seattle soon.

Most of the jewelry recovered from the wreckage of the Titanic will go on public display for the first time with a three-city tour.

The jewelry is from a single purser's bag found during a 1987 research and recovery mission. Jade Jewelry The collection includes diamond and sapphire rings, brooches, necklaces, cuff links and a gold pocket watch.

Although single pieces of the jewelry have been on display at one or more permanent and traveling exhibits sponsored by Premier Exhibitions Inc., their Atlanta debut is the first time the majority of the collection has been available to the public.

In a nondescript industrial office in north Atlanta, Premier Exhibitions Inc. and RMS Titanic Inc. officials previewed the artifacts before they go on display Friday in Atlanta. Exhibition company Premier is the parent of RMS Titanic, which owns the rights to salvage from the luxury liner's wreck on the bottom of the North Atlantic.

“Designer Jewelry is known for having the most current jewelry lines made of the best quality materials and workmanship, at the lowest prices, available to ship immediately,” CEO Sue Blanchard says. Jade Jewelry “Designer Jewelry emphasizes meeting our customers’ needs as well and as quickly as possible.”
Fashion jewelry offers wholesalers a great deal of business opportunities. For customers, the affordability of exquisite fashion jewelry pieces lets them keep up with the latest celebrity fashion trends, make a bold statement, or express their unique style without having to spend hundreds of dollars on genuine designer pieces. The artistic value and fine craftsmanship that goes into the creation of each jewelry piece has made fashion jewelry more than just accessories, but also delightful collector’s items.

Gold Diamond & Design, have the latest tools of the trade — a high-tech mill for cutting wax models, a laser welder with Leica lenses that looks like it could be in a research lab, a lost wax casting machine, and more.

But its not gadgets that have kept him in the business for more 30 years — though he does like them — its the creation process itself.

That passion for the work has netted the lifelong Racine resident several jewelry design awards over the years. Just recently he took first place in the 2012 Wisconsin Jewelers Association Design Competition for CAD or computer aided design for a set of earrings he made.

In January the earrings will be entered in a national Jewelers of America competition. Jade Jewelry

On Saturday, while a wax milling machine hummed in the background, revealing little-by-little the green wax model that would become the cast for another set of earrings, Langenfeld, 50, explained how he came to design the exotic earrings.

While the event might sound like a special exhibition, it is actually a jewelry show and sale presented by the Penn Museum’s Women’s Committee, which is celebrating its “Diamond Anniversary” this year. The Fifth Annual Treasures Jewelry Sale and Show, which is running now through Sunday, has its focus on exceptional jewelry. This popular autumn event, which is sponsored by Tiffany & Co., is set in the spectacular Asian and Egyptian galleries of the Museum.

The 2012 show features 26 designers and jewelers who will be offering a unique combination of antique, vintage and high-end jewelry. The roster includes exhibitors from 10 states and two countries. The United Kingdom is represented by Sue Brown Antique Rings from London.  Jade Jewelry The impressive selection of jeweled and precious metal designs includes classic styles, eye-catching vintage pieces, remarkable estate jewelry and contemporary one-of-a-kind designs. It will also focus on fine jewelry crafted by emerging young designers from all over the United States.

The jewelry aspect of the show complements the museum’s signature collections, such as the rare Mesopotamian Ur artifacts on permanent display and the River of Gold: Pre-Columbian Treasures from Sitio Conte.

Rio Tinto’s pink diamonds have been combined for the first time with imperial jade in a  statement necklace, known as The Argyle Empress,  designed by luxury jeweler Chow Tai Fook and  valued at $5.5 million.
The necklace combines more than 43 carats of Argyle pink diamonds with 33 imperial jade beads.

The Argyle pink diamonds include five of its signature pink tender diamonds, collected over the past five years. Jade Jewelry

The necklace has been designed around two beautiful pink-diamond-encrusted flower motifs depicting the Hong Kong Camellia, the perfect counterpoint to the verdant colors of the leaves depicted in the surrounding jade, the company explained.

The Argyle Empress is being showcased at various events in Hong Kong, before traveling to London as part of an Argyle pink diamond jewelry exhibition at Kensington Palace, London.

Nicole Trunfio’s career started with a bang at age 17 when Tom Ford discovered her during his time at Gucci, and in the past ten years, the Australian model has walked the runways for Versace, Roberto Cavalli, and Valentino, among others, and starred in campaigns for Karl Lagerfeld, Dolce & Gabbana, and Guess. Jade Jewelry These days, however, instead of pounding the catwalks, you’re more likely to find Trunfio sitting in the front rows, preening for photographers at events, or hard at work in her jewelry studio.

The 26-year-old launched her fine jewelry line, Trunfio Jewels, last month after three years of conception. Each bracelet (her signature is the Universe Bracelet, a simple band with interchangeable charms), stackable ring, or pair of earrings incorporates a pyramid in the design, which is strong, defined, and timeless, according to Trunfio. “I’m more about a concept and don’t buy costume jewelry at all. I think that in today’s market, what’s more important is investment pieces that are personal,” she told Style.com of the line, which is available to purchase through her Web site. “For example, I wear a gold Rolex every single day and didn’t really wear a watch until I could get my gold Rolex.”

For more than five years I have owned a beautiful jade pendant that was given to me by my friend Wendy Walton Mishne. The pendant had belonged to Wendy’s mom, Trixie, and I was given this gift shortly after Trixie died. It is both a token of love and friendship. I had hoped to wear this gift once I found the proper necklace to attach the pendant.

Kieu was the person who came up with the solution for my pendant. Upon viewing the pendant she asked if I realized what a truly lovely piece of jade I owned. She then suggested I might consider jade beads separated by tiny gold beads as a possibility for a necklace that would incorporate the pendant.

When she strung some of the jade and gold beads on either side of the pendant I knew I had found the answer to my search for the necklace I had long desired. Jade Jewelry It is so beautiful and the cost was $190.00 which in the scheme of things seems like a very fair price.

Kieu Pham Gray teaches jewelry making all over the country. Teaching is what she loves most about her career. By Nov. 1 she will have made nine trips since June to places that include cities in Wisconsin, Arizona, St. Louis and the Bahamas. During this same time frame she flew to Thailand to take a personal training class.