Who is nerd enough to be ignorant of the song “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend”? Even if you haven’t heard the song, I’m sure you have heard or read this line somewhere at least. If not, then probably you have never known girls. And just as diamonds and girls are inseparable, same is the case for dolls. A must have in every girl’s childhood, dolls of various shapes or sizes has wooed the feminine clan worldwide, since ages. So bringing girl’s both “best friends” under one roof, a toy maker from Japan has unveiled a diamond doll. Tomy Toys takes a bow as it flaunts the Licca-chan doll that carries a teasing price tag of $935,000. Tagged at a little less then 1 million, Licca-chan is decked with 881 diamonds that total up to 51.4-carats. Certainly not a toy for every kid, this extravagant doll is meant for an exhibition that signifies the need for blinged toys even as you grow older. Isn’t it time to reframe the line as “Diamond studded doll is a Girl’s Best Friend”?
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Friday, September 26, 2008
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Have you ever had the feeling that you will never get "caught up"(whatever that means)? I'm having one of those episodes now, as I go to the office each day and try to finish what I was trying to finish yesterday! I haven't really had time to post a lot of new Fall jewelry since getting "caught up" means getting orders out, doing paperwork, and organizing new gemstones and components as they are coming in. So today, I don't have many pictures to put on the blog. I'll be glad to get some more help for the paperwork and organizing as soon as I can find someone. I love to travel and have a short Hilton Head trip coming up, but lately getting away hasn't meant getting away at all, but rather working furiously before I go, taking work with me, and being met with a deluge of things to do on coming home. Of course, it doesn't help that I have to work hard to mollify kitties Cluny and Cuervo who feel that forgiveness for my travel is a lengthy process that requires a lot of treats and petting and brushing on my part (although I do have two different people come over every day while I am gone to make sure that they are fed, and one who stays to play with them for an hour or more!)
The jewelry today is (above) a labradorite bracelet featuring sterling silver and pretty borosilicalte lampwork beads, (below) an opal bracelet made with blue Peruvian opals, smoky quartz, and sterling silver. The second strand is a chain of sterling with charms hanging at intervals.
The last bracelet today is made with yellow turquoise - a stone I don't use that often. A customer wanted a bracelet and some other pieces made from yellow turquoise and I started getting interested in the patterns and shades of colour in these oval stones especially. With Suzette Celestin's lampwork beads and Karen Hill Tribes chain, this is one of my favorites although I'd never been very keen on yellow turquoise before. It's not on the turquoise page, but on a new page on the website that features gemstone bracelets that contain gemstones that we don't really have a category for otherwise, such as charoite, sodalite, rhodochrosite, unakite, and yes, yellow turquoise!
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