Need Gas? Pay It With Diamonds!
With Gas at the pump rising every day and predictions of $5.00/gallon gas to become a reality this Summer vacation driving season, some people are paying with diamonds and jewelry.
Who woulda thunk it?
Read it here: There's gas In them Dar Diamonds!
Engagement Rings: Excel Diamonds Offers The Best Tiffany Legacy and Novo Replica Engagement Rings!
We now offer an extensive array of The finest Tiffany replica diamond engagement rings in addition to our already famous Tiffany Classic diamond engagement rings replica.
Check us out!
Engagement Rings: Our Tiffany Legacy Replica With Diamonds and Blue Sapphire!
Many of you already know of our famous Tiffany engagement ring replicas, including the Tiffany Legacy Diamond Engagement Ring.
What you may not have known is that we can actually set our Tiffany legacy replica ring with a beautiful precious gemstone like this gorgeous deep blue sapphire we just set for one of our customers!
Look at this beauty!!
Center Sapphire is 2.55 carats.
Beautiful!!
Engagement Rings and Marriage Are Expensive!
Guys, if you thought your major expense ended with the purchase of her engagement rings, think again.
It is getting more and more expensive to get married. The wedding industry is an annual 73 billion dollar business with 2.3 million weddings in the USA alone with the average wedding costing $27852.00, a 48% increase from 1999.
More details here: Marriage Is Costly
When You Break Up: What To Do With Your Diamond Engagement Ring?
Good question. Both of you don't want it because of the painful memories. The guy is out the money and the gal has developed an allergic reaction to seeing or touching it.
What to do?
Here is a novel answer provided by two enterprising individuals: Take My Engagement Ring, Please!
This Gal Will Need An Expensive Diamond Engagement Ring
Danielle Luminita, a model from Romania, is carried on the shoulders of two other models as she displays a diamond-studded thong during Viva La Eve by Triumph at the Singapore Fashion Festival April 3. The thong, valued at $121,106, is decorated with 518 diamonds totaling 30 carats.
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.
These Tiny Diamonds are not for Engagement Rings.
What is a Nanodiamond?
Nanodiamonds are made by detonating two explosive compounds, TNT and RDX, and then collecting the resulting soot - which contains diamonds approximately 4nm in size. But to make the diamonds fluoresce they have to be exposed to a high-energy electron beam from a van de Graaff accelerator, then heated to 800°C - a very costly procedure.
Now comes a new, cheaper process invented by Taiwanese chemists that makes nanaodiamonds fluoresce by bombarding them with high energy helium ions. This results in structural defects to the point that they fluorecse when hit by a laser light.
The practical applications are important. Nanodiamonds could be used as light beacons in chemotherapy by being attached to cancer cells and tumors in the body so that these medicines are more accurately delivered to the target zone.
Image showing the internalization of green fluorescent diamonds by a cancer cell.
Courtesy of RSC.org and Fann et al.
Carbon based nanodiamonds are water soluble, have good biocompatibility, and cause little inflammation. Research is ongoing to determine toxicity and how long these nanodiamonds will remain in the body before dissipating. Answers to these questions are necessary before full-scale clinical trials can begin.
High Price of Gold Can Make Your Mouth Worth Mucho Money!
The Associated Press reports that people are digging through drawers for old dental caps, fillings and bridgework they saved years ago and selling them at prices that would make the tooth fairy blush.
Instead of hanging on to the pieces as souvenirs, many are turning them over to pawnbrokers, coin shops and specialized firms that buy "dental gold," hoping to take a bite out of the metal's historic run to $1,000 an ounce.
"People are really cashing in. If a dentist passes away, their kids come in with a big pile of good teeth," said Scott Taber, owner of Taber Coins, a Shrewsbury, Mass., coin dealer that buys dental gold and then resells it to a gold smelter.
He said he used to see only a few customers a month selling gold teeth but now gets that many each week. "People are digging up the gold and starting to sell it," he said.
A gold crown typically uses about one-tenth of an ounce of 16-karat gold, which would fetch around $40 to $50 at today's prices, Taber said. Heavier pieces of dental gold can command prices of several hundred dollars, he said.
That deal sounds pretty good to people like Ann Davis, a 63-year-old retiree in Rock Island, Ill., who had gold caps and a bridge removed nearly 40 years ago and has held on to them ever since.
"You don't want to throw it away because it might be worth something," she said. "Now that gold's going up it's time to think about selling."
Gold prices have been surging since late last year as the weak dollar, record crude-oil prices and fears of a U.S. recession have enhanced its appeal as a haven for investors.
Gold set a record of $1,038.60 an ounce on March 17 and has since fallen to about $920, but experts say it could soon resume its upward climb. Several precious metals analysts have even predicted $2,000 gold ahead as a global commodities boom pushes the price of raw materials further into record territory.
Gold crowns, fillings and bridgework are usually made of 16-karat gold, an alloy that contains other metals such as silver, zinc and copper. That made gold dental work soft enough to shape but hard enough to form a biting surface.
But don't expect to get rich hawking gold fillings and crowns.
And replacing a gold crown isn't cheap. Newer porcelain and gold crowns can cost $500 to $3,000 apiece, and not all insurance companies will pay for the procedure.
Besides the financial benefit, Taber says people don't mind selling dental gold because it's far less emotional than parting with heirlooms like grandma's wedding ring or the family silverware.
"I haven't seen anybody with sentimental teeth," Taber said.
$MILE!! You may chomping on big Money!
Madonna's New Jewelry! April 2008
Madonna has turned to Chopard to create the custom diamond knuckle ring that reads “M-dolla” and the Happy Diamonds cross she wears on the cover of her new and much anticipated album “Hardy Candy.” Designed by Chopard co-president Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele herself, the ring features 258 brilliant cut white diamonds with the signature Chopard floating diamonds in the flourish of the letter M. This is the second partnership between Chopard and Madonna; their first was the pave diamond “Hung Up” necklace the Pop Queen wore onstage from her “Confessions on a Dance Floor” album.
Pray For Rain and Pass That Diamond Engagement Ring!
Alvin's Jewelers in Sandusky Ohio recently announced its "Pray for Rain" promotion, which promises a refund of up to $5,000 on engagement rings for couples who have at least 3/4 an inch of rain or 10 inches of snow on their wedding day.
Chad Owens, district manager of Alvin's Jewelers at the Sandusky Mall, said he's already had at least 20 couples register.
"We've got the umbrellas up in every store, and we're hoping to have quite a few winners," he said.
Would you say this promotion is all wet?
