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There is nothing that will put a little spring in my step quite like “back to school”. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I like spending the summer with my little angels (ages 16 and 14 by the way) but the school routine keeps everyone happier. Less complaining about who’s on the computer and less wrestling and pulling the furniture over. By the end of summer I get a little “over” all this togetherness, if you know what I mean.

And you’re probably thinking, ‘what has this got to do with jewelry’? Well nothing of course……but it does have a lot to do with shopping. With all that extra time on our hands, it’s a good time to get out there and treat ourselves to a much deserved ‘gift to self’. After all, it’s like working overtime all summer!!

This of course coincides perfectly with the influx of COOL new stuff that is coming in for fall. I suppose the average person probably knows that we jewelers spend our summers shopping for fall merchandise, and it all starts to arrive in September and October. Wow, is that fun or what???

This fall you can still look for ‘circle of life’ jewelry. It’s still available in diamonds, but now there are some great looks in gold as well. “Journey” jewelry that arrived on the scene last year is not making such a big presence this year. Yellow gold is making a scene…and is being seen! This year marks the best new product in yellow gold that come out in years. Can’t wait to get my hands on it!

Of course you don’t have to break the bank to have cool new do-dads in jewelry. If you like white metal, then the silver and diamonds or colored stones of Scott Kay’s silver line is great. Their new stuff is really nice, and fun to wear. These are items you can pick up with a little stashed grocery money. (don’t tell I said so….but you only have to pass on the fish monger once or twice to make it happen. Beans are good for you to, you know?)

Okay…here’s little something you can chew on. September is right around the corner, and if you have any September birthdays on your calendar, you may or may not know that the birthstone for that month is sapphire. (now that’s lucky!!) What you may not know, is that when this stone is blue, it’s called ‘sapphire. When it’s red, we call it ruby. And when it’s any other color (and there is every color of the rainbow) then we call it a fancy sapphire. To get technical, they all fall in the mineral family called corundum. On the mohs hardness scale, sapphire is second only to diamond. (about half as hard ). What does that means to you is? If you want to wear a beautiful gemstone, sapphires resist scratches and abrasions better than the rest.

According to folklore, sapphires confer inner peace, and offer healing properties for such ails as rheumatism, colic and mental illness. (I wouldn’t go mentioning that if you give it as a gift however!) Tradition holds that the tablets containing the Ten Commandments were composed of sapphire, so strong that a hammer swung against them would be smashed to pieces. Of course all that’s nice, but just an excuse to own one, and I wouldn’t need that. Sapphire in its finer forms is one of the most beautiful gemstones there is. The blue colors can mimic the ocean waters and it is really is wonderful to behold!

So, hi ho, hi ho, it’s back to school they go!!

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