Antique Wedding Rings

Posted on October 16th, 2008 in Uncategorized by joygrace || No Comment

Each one of us wants to have our own family, and for girls their wedding day is a dream come true.. But in that instances there are lots of things to make before going through one of this is chosing the best wedding rings for you.. but now there are amazing wedding rings that you love most.

As jewelers, people come to us asking questions about antique wedding rings. We’ll discuss what to look for in the ring and the gemstones. Hopefully, you will feel confident making a decision to invest in an antique wedding ring.

An antique ring is defined as a ring over 100 years old. How many are truly available to purchase? Certainly, there are fewer available today than a year ago. When the price of gold sky rocketed to $1000 per ounce, many people sold their family rings for the gold value. Gold scrap buyers and most jewelers resold the rings to be melted down.

When looking at antique wedding rings online, you often find sites selling antique style rings. This is a new ring manufactured to look antique. There are wholesale jewelry manufacturing companies selling the popular reproduction intricate white gold settings. They are purchased by jewelers who add modern diamonds or colored stones. Some are misrepresented as antique

Almost all white gold rings are rhodium plated yellow gold rings. The rhodium plating generally lasts about 5 years. After that time, the yellow gold shows beneath the coating. Your choices in an antique ring are either traditional yellow gold or platinum. Most Victorian rings are 12 KT or 14KT yellow gold or rose gold. Platinum wedding rings were first made in the early 1900’s. Platinum is more than twice as durable as gold and much more expensive.

ntique diamonds and colored stones in antique wedding rings were cut differently than modern rings. A mine cut is one of the earliest cuts, from the 16th century. Use a loupe or magnifying lens to examine the diamond. The crown (the top) resembles a square shape. A rose cut gemstone is another old cut often seen in garnets as well as diamonds.Looking down on the top of the stone, the cut resembles a rose bud and is flat underneath. Rose cut diamonds must be closely examined in their settings to make sure they are secure.Two other types of antique cuts are old european and single cut diamonds.

n buying an antique wedding ring, condition is very important. The prongs holding the stones should all be in good condition, with no cracks in the metal. The shank of the ring should be firm enough to withstand wear and sizing if needed.Because women were much smaller 100 years ago,there are many very small size (4) or less antique gold rings. Unless you have very small fingers, small antique rings are near impossible to resize to a common ring size of 7 or greater.

he same important characteristics of the modern diamond ring ( color, cut and clarity) also apply to antique diamond rings.Other considerations important to an antique wedding ring are the maker of the ring (Tiffany, Chaumet, etc)and the style of the ring.The style of Victorian wedding rings took on many romantic forms from 1837 through 1901.

Purchasing an heirloom wedding ring takes research and thought. Choose something you will wear and enjoy.Consider the history of the ring as well as the memories you can create in passing down this ring to future generations.

Create a Home Spa in Your Bathroom

Posted on September 16th, 2008 in Uncategorized by joygrace || No Comment

It is part of my plan that if i would build my dream how I want to create a Home Spa in my bathroom.

Visiting the spa is very relaxing and calming, and very expensive. Most of us can only visit a spa on rare occasions, but fortunately we can create a home spa.

Purchase and install a rainshower shower head. These are the shower heads that have a large diameter and spray down like rain simiilar to those in a real spa.

Lighting is very important to create the spa atmosphere. Install a dimmer switch on your bathroom light fixtures. Consider buying an extra set of blue light bulbs to put in your light fixture during a spa treatment. Another source of lighting are, of course, candles.

Restful sounds like ocean waves, rainfall, or a babbling brook are essential to the spa feel. Purchase a sound machine at the local bed and bath store for around $20. Many of these machines offer 6 or 8 different relaxing sounds. Be sure that there is a plug well away from any water sources when you use this type of machine, and of course, keep away from children.

Scent is another aspect of the spa experience. You could purchase an essential oil burner and use natural oils like lavendar for relaxation. These oil burners have an indentation on the top for the oil and a small tealight candle burns from below.

18th birthdat party idea (a dream come true)

Posted on May 20th, 2008 in Uncategorized by joygrace || No Comment

Some birthdays are milestones in a young person’s life. Obviously reaching 10 or 13 or 16 or 20 are important achievements. But what about reaching 18?

In many ways reaching 18 means reaching adulthood. It signifies a true beginning to being a grown-up. So it would seem that a party to honor such an occasion should be fun, yet not seem too childish. Here are a few 18th birthday party ideas that you might consider.

One idea is to perhaps coincide the party with going to college. The birthday celebrant is probably starting college soon, and so a college theme for the birthday might be nice. Perhaps a visit to the college and a celebration at a nearby restaurant would be pleasant. Or maybe have the party at home with a frat/sorority theme and for food feature “mystery meat”.

An easier party to have at home can center around food. An all-pizza party would be great. With a build-it -yourself dessert bar with ice cream and all the fixings.

But perhaps your 18-year-old-to-be would find the above idea too childish, which it sort of is. So another idea is to take the teen and friends to a theme park for the day. Give them tickets and let them spend the whole day there, then come back to your house for the pizza or ice cream or whatever.

Another idea for a party is to hire a DJ and have music. The party can be at home or perhaps at a rec center rented for the day. You will have to find the right kind of DJ who has the best music though, and equipment. Another musical idea is to have each invited teen bring a CD they enjoy, and just play those at the party.

One more idea I’ll share is a boat ride party. Boats can be chartered for a day for fishing or sailing or just sightseeing. Of course this only works if the teen was born during a warmer month. If it is too cold for boating then perhaps a paintball party would be fun to have indoors.

a poem by: fire dancer

Posted on May 16th, 2008 in Uncategorized by joygrace || No Comment

Dreams
by Fire Dancer

I was thinking of us last night
And the times we shared
How good we were
But now we are apart
Yet we still have our
Dreams
For in our Dreams we are together
Holding hands on the beach
Talking all night under the silver moon
Kissing and holding each other tight
Dreams
For no matter the distance
Or the obstacle I will always belong to you
For we are meant for each other
not only in reality, but also in our
Dreams

be a model

Posted on May 12th, 2008 in Uncategorized by joygrace || No Comment

Hey guys! guess what’s something new, something different and something that is very unique… do you wish of becoming a model??? do you have much confident of your self that you are beautiful and young that you have the looks of stand to join in a beauty contest???

Well a part of me wish and dream of becoming a model one day and join in a beauty contest but the problem with me is I dont have that much confident of joning those things…

This is unique! An online beauty contest for anybody – not just a chosen few, but everybody who wants to join! And the judges? Not some secret group but simply everybody who surfs onto LookOfTheYear.com and votes.

And win amazing prizes be discovered.. so why not join and be discovered!

http://www.lookoftheyear.com

fashion

Posted on April 30th, 2008 in Uncategorized by joygrace || No Comment

I want to have my own botique and fashion house…. explore what’s new and in fashion…

hot swimwear

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cutie shoes

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cool eyewear

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amazing dress

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young adults

Posted on April 27th, 2008 in Uncategorized by joygrace || No Comment

When people became young adults, they often have a good idea about what they want to do in life, and how they want to live. Will they live in a big city of country? Will they want to work with other people or alone? dO they want to get married and have a family???

Many young asults choose to continue with their stidies. During vacation they may take a job to earn money, or travel and explore the world.

want to climb

Posted on April 4th, 2008 in Uncategorized by joygrace || No Comment

watashi no yumie noborimasu! hehehehe know whats the meaning of that????? in english my dream is to climb.. hhmmpp! climb the most amazing mountain in rthe world… I have here some pictures practising how to climb a mountain… do my outfit okey??? hehe

worst to worst

Posted on March 30th, 2008 in Uncategorized by joygrace || No Comment

I dont know why some people didnt like me but I am still thankful that there are still people who loves me and still believe in me sometimes God test us through our friends… LAst night God gave me a dream about my friends… A dream that is not good and I am so afraid with that… I dont want it to happened in my life…

Dream Interpretation

Posted on March 18th, 2008 in Uncategorized by joygrace || No Comment

Dream interpretation is the process of assigning meaning to dreams. In many of the ancient societies, including Egypt and Greece, dreaming was considered a supernatural communication or a means of divine intervention, whose message could be unravelled by those with certain powers. In modern times, various schools of psychology have offered theories about the meaning of dreams.

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