The Chocolate Lover’s Jewelry Box: Chocolate Pearls
This next resident of our hypothetical ‘chocolate’ jewelry box is best approached with more than a teaspoonful of caveat emptor …
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The Chocolate Lover’s Jewelry Box: Chocolate Opals
The words ‘chocolate’ and ‘opal’ don’t usually pair in most jewelry aficionados’ minds – considering that their wondrous play of …
The Chocolate Lover’s Jewelry Box: Chocolate Diamonds
For someone who was once enough of a chocoholic to actually create a ‘chocolate garden’ planting bed – but who …
Black Opals: Are They All Truly Natural?
Although opal is often regarded as the ‘Queen of Gems’ there is also – as in any royal family – …
Jewels That Play with Light: Cats and Tigers and Stars, Oh My!
The final instalment in our series on jewels that play with light examines three different gems that, while they do …
Jewels That Play With Light: Amazing Alexandrite
By far the rarest of all the “jewels that play with light” is alexandrite. Despite the fact that it is …
Jewels That Play With Light: Mysterious Moonstone, Luminous Labradorite and Scintillating Sunstone
Second in our series on jewels that play with light is the mysterious moonstone, along with its two “sisters” labradorite …
Jewels That Play With Light: Opals, Real and Faux
Within the small family of jewels that “play with light”, opals surely claim top honors for variety as well as …
