Bigger is always better!

With Spring just around the corner, color gemstones in all their magnificent hues are resurfacing. The raw, natural and tribal look is the rage this Season with floral and leaf motifs in ring designs, pendants and earrings. Multicolor bracelets and an abundance of bangles are also in. Young women are showing a great interest in the more bold and rough finish yellow gold necklaces, while older women are looking for unique cuts and classic styles.

Trend-wise, it seems bigger is always better, this trend was visibly apparent among celebrities since last Fall and still continuing, with the addition of the color splashes. The price of gold has been reaching incredible heights, investing in yellow gold pieces is smart, if you can afford it. However, many designers have branched out into Sterling Silver given the economic climate. While gold, forever the symbol of wealth, is the prefered metal for any precious stone, we're seing beautiful designs with silver and color gemstones stealing the spotlight.

Today's style-conscious customers have many options, women are asking for stand-out pieces, and larger colored stones, among the favorites are the Quartz family and on the more expensive scale, are the Tourmalines, Beryls, Sapphires and Tanzanites. So what's hot in jewelry these days? According to our own in-store experience at Jewels Quest, we're seing a definite interest either in large color stones or large gold pieces with smaller pave accent shades of diamonds, brilliant diamonds, champagne diamonds, chocolate diamonds... It shouldn't come as a surprise to finish this brief look into the jewelry trends with diamonds, they will, after all, always be a girl's best friend.

8 Days to Valentine's Day!

Are you thinking about her? Let me give you a hint - jewelry. I don't mean to sound so blunt and sure don't want to make it so obvious, but truly jewelry and specifically diamond jewelry is a gift unmatched. And if you work a little hard on the presentation, you hit a home run.

Let me share a little Valentine gift giving moment with you. My husband came home with a douzen roses, I was touched of course and very much relieved he didn't forget! Well I accepted the roses graciously with a hug and kiss. While getting them ready to place in my special occasion crystal vase. I noticed my husband watching what I was doing, carefully. Soon enough, my eyes opened wide in complete astonishment, as I pulled one of the roses out, I noticed stuck on one of their leaves two brilliant stud earrings.

Wow! Ithought "What if I mistakingly had thrown away those leafy stems!" Then figured out why my husband's eyes were on me all the while. He was worried I might just do that. I was thrilled to say the least, the unexpected way he gave me those beautiful stud diamond earrings was the cherry on my Valentine sunday topping.

13 Days to Valentine's Day!

Valentine's Day quotations taken from "history.com". Imagine any one of these quotations engraved on a gold plate pendant or round or heart shape medallion:


Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu

My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love has no desire but to fulfill itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires;
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
- Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
-Helen Keller

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
- Zora Neale Hurston

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love.
- Leo Tolstoy

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
- Dorothy Parker

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
- Alice Walker

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way
than this: where I does not exist nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.
- Pablo Neruda, "Love Sonnet XVII