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“Beyond Brilliance”: Shining a Lens on the Drive to Create

If you’re in the Boston area, run—don’t walk—to the Museum of Fine Arts’ exhibit, “Beyond Brilliance—Jewelry highlights from the collection.” I had the opportunity to see this recently and couldn’t tear myself away. It’s a masterful display of 150 brilliant (pun intended) examples of how jewelry developed and defined culture and history throughout the centuries. […]

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Tips for organizing your jewelry collection

Just as kids get organized with back-to-school notebooks and pencil cases, this is a good season to organize and declutter your jewelry. There’s nothing worse than not being able to wear something because it’s tangled, damaged, or in a jewelry box pileup. It’s time to bring order and peace to your favorite baubles. Here are […]

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array of shiny diamonds

Diamonds: April’s Birthstone and A Girl’s Best Friend

“A diamond allows the soul’s light to shine out.” Ahh, the diamond. The queen of the gem kingdom. The hardest natural substance on earth. And definitely a girl’s best friend. These gems were formed before dinosaurs roamed the earth: the youngest are about 900 million years old, and the oldest are 3.2 billion years old—but […]

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