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Diamonds are carbon: very organized and stable carbon, that is. A very scientific description can be found here but simplified vastly, natural diamonds were created when carbon dioxide got trapped far below the earth's surface millions of years ago, was subjected to massive pressure from all the earth above it, was then forced at a high speed back up to the surface via volatile volcanic action which prevented the natural conversion of carbon dioxide into graphite and instead produced a very stable strong carbon compound aka diamond, or so the theory goes.  With synthetic diamonds AKA lab grown diamonds, that process...

Costume jewelry is not a new creation, but the materials used in today's are far more complex and volatile than your grandmother's day.  Old materials: brass, sterling silver, copper.  New materials used: zinc, pewter, miscellaneous metal of indeterminate lineage, stainless steel, titanium, tungsten, brass, copper...etc, and more often than not with a heavy duty plating of another metal. Costume jewelry is more widely owned & worn due to its accessible price point versus precious metal jewelry, but it is often more challenging to repair.  The metals used may not want to be soldered, or rhinestones can easily be damaged in the repairing...

We, Rubini Jewelers, make jewelry.  All kinds, including wedding rings.  And lately, they are thankfully more and more of an anything goes theme. Literally, you can wear a precious metal band, or an alternative metal band.  You can wear a band with diamonds, with alternative stones, or with no stones.  Your band can feature paint, leather, wood, bone, rubber, or be made entirely of an alternative material.  Your band can even be: an ink representation permanently etched on your skin. The customers in my first example went traditional with matching bands, but that's where the tradition stopped.  She wanted blue and...

Earring wearers nearly everywhere in the world share an experience in common: the loss of just a single lobe enhancer of the pair. What can you do? You can 1) wear just 1 earring, and drape your hair over the other ear 2) wear a mismatched pair of different but 'complimentary' earrings 3) try to find another of same exact earring (from another orphaned pair?) OR failing all of these 4) appeal to your jeweler and see what magic they can come up with. What follows is some of our magic...Enjoy :o) Our first example is not an orphan so...

Often, customers come to us with jewelry they want to undo.  They want to take the stones out and reset them into something new. Or melt the metal down and transform it. And sometimes, the transformation is a very simple. Just staring us right in the face. We took our customer's journey jewelry that we are all acclimated to seeing lately and assembled it all together to create quite a memorable piece.The photo on the left shows her actual jewelry posed together to give her an idea of how the final piece might look, and the top right and bottom pictures show...