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Guide to 8 Popular Gemstones

12.28.2007 by Piseth - 0 Comment
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The adornment used in jewelry known as Gemstones for centuries. In the ancient days only the royal family have or use it, but today everyone can have this precious stone jewelry. In the market known popular gemstones today are as bellow:

Amethyst

It is a highly accessible stone the Amethyst, the quartz that has the shades in purple. It is use with all type of jewelry styles. It is a great stone with quality and color.
Aquamarine

It is one of the favorite design stone today. The color can range from almost white to sky blue and expensive stone. It is a family to gemstone where found in Brazil.

Bloodstone

This type of stone has a vivid red spots, but stone itself has a really green jasper. Iron oxide cause the red spots deposit within the stone. This type stone used in ancient times for many carvings and was a favorite of Christian martyrs.

Emerald

This is the most expensive stone, a stone of love and life. On the crowns and scepters can be found use with this type of gemstones. Emeralds range in shades of green, but the deepest ones hold the most value and can even cost more than diamonds.

Opal

the fiery colors like rainbow sparking is the identification of this opulent gemstones. Opals are used in many different jewelry settings. Today the favorite gemstone of jewelry wearers is the Opals. Originally from Australia, this stone has great history and lore.

Ruby

The love, passion and power is associated with the red stone. One of the more precious stones, it is considered the King of gemstones and has been extensively used in crowns and jewelry of Kings, Queens and Emperors.
Sapphire

Deep blue stone remind people of sapphire and it has many different colors. This stone belonging to the corundum group of gemstones. This type of stone is more expensive than diamond.

Topaz

The rich golden glow, the topaz is known as the symbol use for the sun. Typically the golden brown, Topaz can also be found in blue, green, pink and red. It is a hard stone but can be cracked with a hard blow so it should be careful when use it.

Gemstone Jewelry Care

12.26.2007 by Piseth - 0 Comment
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Gemstones are quality stone with brilliant colors ranking from variety of levels. It is a precious stones and always expensive to buy or maybe you own the precious gemstones. Somehow, the important thing is to educate yourself of knowing how to take care of your gemstones.

Gemstone is easy to be scratched and loosing its color. One very first thing you need to know is to choose a hardness of the stone that it is not easy to scratch. Hardness of the gemstone is to identify by its scale. Of course, the range is from 1 to 10, and the good one is always ranking 7+ scale that is not easy to scratch.

The stone under number 7+ are known as coral, lapis, lazuli, opal, pearl, and turquoise where Fine jewelry which often fine jewelry such as gold, silver, or platinum are considered to be in the low range also. Often they only hit the rating from 2 1/2 to a 4. In order to avoid the stone got scratching then store it in a separate place. Remove these pieces when you are about to take on a task that includes cleaning, gardening, or participating in a high impact sport. This will help prevent breaking or chipping your stone.

Another important thing is its color, in order to protect the color of the stone is to store it a way from the direct sunlight. It is good to store it in a plastic bag for it will help to protect the sunlight but have enough light. But the most important thing you need to understand is you yourself that know how to take care of your valuable stones.

Gem and Crystal Jewelry - the Power to Heal?

12.26.2007 by Piseth - 0 Comment
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By Sam Serio

References to the power of crystals and gems and their use in spiritual and healing rituals can be found in the ancient Mayan and Hebrew civilizations. Today the practice of using stones and crystals continues with ordinary people across the world who claim extraordinary results.

By stimulating a person’s thought, it is believed that crystals stimulate healing - both physical and non-physical. Stones in the red family — red, yellow and orange — are prized for their ability to produce energy. On the other end of the spectrum, blue, violet, and lavender stones have a calming effect. In between are the clear and aquamarine stones that having healing properties.

Many people use and combine crystals to improve a variety of physical, mental, and spiritual conditions based on the healing properties attributed to each stone:

· Amethyst - This “spiritually uplifting” stone can reduce anger, and impatience.

· Aquamarine - This beautiful stone protects your heart and your immune system and aids communications on all levels…especially on the physical and spiritual planes

· Carnelian - The perfect stone for targeting your body’s system, carnelian is a “stimulant” for your circulatory system, kidneys, appetite, emotions, and sexuality. It bestows confidence, assertiveness, and an unstoppable drive to succeed.

· Citrine - Citrine can help with acid indigestion, food disorders, and allergies with cleansing powers aimed at your spleen, kidneys, liver, urinary system, and intestines. Mentally, citrine is valuable for emotional clarity, willpower, optimism, and self-discipline.

· Coral - Use coral to strengthen your muscles and spine, and to promote bone and tissue regeneration. When it comes to your feels, coral can enliven and enrich your experience of emotions.

· Diamond - A symbol of prosperity and love, diamonds increase personal clarity, trust, and confidence. They also amplify your thoughts and allow you to expand your strengths and positive attitudes.

· Emerald: You’ll breathe easier thanks to the positive effect of emeralds on your respiratory system. Emeralds can also help you get a good night’s sleep and are believed to reduce the pain of childbirth.

· Jade: The crystal of choice for courage, knowledge, justice, compassion, emotional balance, humility, generosity, harmony, wealth, and long life.

· Lapis: Anxiety, restlessness, insomnia, shyness, nervous system, speech, hearing, pituitary, inflammation, pain. Mind expansion, intuition, creativity, spiritual connection. Organize, quiet the mind.

· Malachite: Let go with malachite. Use it to release pain, reduce inflammation, and rid yourself of anger and depression.

· Ruby: It seems only natural that the red, red ruby is valuable for blood clots, blood cleansing, menstrual pain, and even impotency. Rubies simulate circulation and “amp up” the pituitary gland.

· Sapphire: Sapphires are used to reduce inflammation, lower fevers, and put an end to nosebleeds. They are also valuable for helping you tap into your intuition.

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Gemstones vs Their Substitutes

12.25.2007 by Piseth - 0 Comment
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Very often that people want to buy gemstone that has the similar quality with good price. A cheap quality with a similar to the expensive one is something that people want the most. Of course, there are many different type of gemstones available at the market today, especially if you are looking to buy on the online markets. But the most known of the three types of color gemstone are reds, greens and blues.

Some certain type of gemstones look very alike to ruby for instance like a red one. That could lead to mistaken when see it for just a quick looks. Those type of stone including such as the red spinel, red beryl, rubellite tourmaline, pyrope and so on. The blues gemstones are the product of the minerals like saphire, tanzanite, iolite, benitoits that is identified by its color, brilliance, and the luster of gems colors.

For the greens type you can make its recognition by tsavorite garnet, peridot, emerald, and chrome tourmaline. The chrome tourmaline has a lovely yellow-green tinge where tsavorite garnet is very similar to the pure green shade of the emerald.

Something that you need to consider before buying the gems is that what would you will be wearing them and expectation of its durability. For instance like the garnet is not as hard as ruby but it still durable and hence used with bracelets and rings. The important thing when you would want to consider the gemstone colors, you have to juxtapose several critarias that affect its value such as cut, color, durable, clarity, place of origine and rarity. Color is most likely to be the important factors of gemstones.

One people can choose the added value to the gemstone they prefer then the enjoyments and appreciation will automaticly added to the value of the jewelry. When you come to choose a quality gemstone to make yourself confident enough shopping quality gemstones or diamonds then there are certain rules.

  1. Get the details information on the gemstones that you wish to buy it. Educate yourself first before buying gemstones or diamonds from the sources available near you.

  2. People most often got stuck at the first place where they stop for certain product. So avoid buying the first gemstones that you come across.

  3. Thirdly is to seek for guidance from independant gemologist if you are not confident enough or doutful about the gemstone that you wish to obtain it.

The last thing you need to rememer is always consider it carefully even they are substitutes to particular gemstone. Precious gemstone is always rare not available anywhere on the market. Only certain places that have this type of gemstones. Reputable seller would always want to please their customers.

6 Rules to Buy Gemstone at Good Price

12.25.2007 by Piseth - 0 Comment
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Are you good at bagaining for a quality gemstone at the market? Most often for tourists visiting other country and happen to see jewelry gemstone sometime hard to decide which one is the great stone with the best price. Of course, tourist might also want to make business by selling those gemstone they got it during their visit to sell in on internet as one of the business able to run today. Of course, you would prefer the great stone and avoide poor quality but at the good price. Is that what you are thinking about?

There are certain way that could help you to decide to buy the gemstone on the internet where you it will not bring you frustrated once they ship it to your house. Does it really matter to learn the 6 simple steps to make the best decision on buying the gemstone on the inter? So, now let’s start discover with the simple step of buying the gemstone online as the following.

  1. Reason that You Want to Buy: basically, there are 3 main reasons that people want to buy gemstones, because they are gemstone collectors, investors or they want a type of lovely gemstone to set in a piece of jewelry. In case you are the invester then you might want to get the gemstones that will appreciate in its value so you can make some profits later when you sell it. So buying the stone on the internet is not an option by this way, because the value gemstone or the appreciate gemstone is very rare and always expensive. Secondly, if you are a gemstone collector then you might want to buy the gemstone on the internet. The reasons behind is just collecting any type of stones just like collecting the stamps. It doesn’t matter anyway. Gemstone collects always have a pre-shopping list so internet is the best list to go. Lastly for those who find the fine gemstone to set in with a value jewelry they like most or for a custom piece of jewelry. So if you want to spend a little time or invest you little time find it on the internet like with the crafting shop or crafting people that are known. And you need to educate yourself to get to know the specific gemstone and a specific type of stone that you want to buy.

  2. Know What You Want: What is in your mind that gemstone is for? Is it a ring? A pendant? Earings? Or other specific thing that could fit for but not to other people. You should also know that every gemstone has it rate from 1 to 10. So the quality one is the hard one like the diamond, ruby and sapphire. But pendants, earing, or pins are less likely to be easy broken. The next thing is to decide on its color. What color that you like most. Spend sometime to think about that. By doing this you can narrow your specific search on the gem you like. For example: you like a blue-stone or something similar to this….etc. After that set the price that you want to consider to buy like from $5 to $35. It’s all about its value so the best stone is you for you to consider.  

  3. Know Who You are Buying From: Now you can search for the different shops easily online where if you go back in the last 10 years it was vey hard to do so. Something you shold look for: (a) does dealer provide the full address including its name, adress, phone, fax or email? Don’t deal with those who hide the identity. (b) Dealer with a few years of experience in business is worthy to trust where bad companies cannot survive that long. (c) does dealer commit to customer satisfaction? Company should want you as their long term customer. (d) do companies provide you with pictures for every stone? don’t buy stone without details information. (e) dealer should provide you all the details on how to use and educate yourself to benefits from the stone.

  4. Does it Use the Safe Payment Methods: Always remember to pay with a secure payment method such as paypal or credit card. By transfer wire or money transfer give you unsecure no rescure if you are unhappy with the stone.

  5. Don’t buy if you can’t return it: Your best buy is the best protection wher you can get your full refund. Understand if any unsuall or not enough quality or missing something as not listed in the details. Success of the company is that they are commited to their business with many happy customers.

  6. Understand the Economic of Gemstone Business: Undertand the common sense of economic evironment. Gemstone business is like any other business and any other materials selling at the market. So you may want to consider the points such as buying close to the resource as it spend less in shipping, buy from the suppliers that has enough in stock, buy from vendors who commited to online business.

So now you can make yourself stand in the position that you can better understand how you can buy the quaility gemstone that fit to your needs to its good price. If it is not all about what you have consider so far, then at least it can give you some speficic key point for you to consider on how to buy Gemstone Online at Good Price.

Exhibition at Mondial Center

12.22.2007 by Piseth - 1 Comment
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Last week there were a four-day exhibition event at the Mondial Center in Phnom Penh, where many different type of product showed there from 8.am until 8.00pm in the evening. All the products are from cambodia and made in cambodia such as palm wine, sources,  sugar, bed, chair, rice, corn product, flower decoration, handmade product, shoe, mattress, and cakes and so on.

Beside foods, drinks, clothes there are jewelry like gold, silver, black pearl, white platinum wears displayed at many booth there at the Mondial Center. I bought some product back home as well since they had a four-day promotion for all type of products at the exhibition event. I went there all the four days because i wanted to see it again and again as well as my friends asked me to go there with them too.

Handmade Jewelry Beads

12.14.2007 by Piseth - 0 Comment
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Handmade Jewelry

This is a handmade jewelry where discovered at a friend house. It is made of many different color of beads.

Handmade earing

This is another one - a handmade jewelry with different color of beads.

Pearls to Dedicate for His Bride

12.12.2007 by Piseth - 0 Comment
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Pearls for His Bride

A man of romantic were looking for this pearl for his bride. He was looking for a few weeks from different places. Finally, he found this type of pearl where he like to choose it for his bride. How would you feel if it is you to make the decision? Is this pearl a good pearls to choose? Hola! maybe a good pearl i guess.

Valuable Diamond Ring

12.07.2007 by Piseth - 0 Comment
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Fair Diamond Ring 2

The diamond ring is a body wear jewelry cost a large prices if someone want to own it. But why it is so important that people are looking for it and they love it a lot? That is the scare resource where everyone wants it that’s why it raise to be expensive.

Normal people are not afford with the diamond product because it is too expensive for them to buy it. Diamond is expensive but people want it because they value it as it gives them glorious once they wear it on their bodies. Of course, people wear it at various types of parties, ceremonies and other special occasion or even wear it daily as their body brightness.

Blinging Rings on the Fingers

12.01.2007 by Piseth - 0 Comment
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Bling Ring Arms Around

Woo! Wooo! Let’s look at this one. It is a beautiful picture of the many colorful ring on the fingers of one hand side. Can you count how many ring are on the fingers? There are four fingers that found with the three that hold the rings. With different color of the ring on the hand of the girl together the ring is brightly beautiful.