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July birthstone: Ruby

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July birthstone: Ruby

July's birthstone is ruby.  Ruby is a stunning pink red gemstone of the corundum family which also contains sapphires.  Rubies and sapphires have a hardness of 9 which is only surpassed by diamonds. Many of the words rubies come from South East Asia with a very large number coming from mines in the Mokog region of Burma. But they are also found in Australia, Japan, South America and even Scotland.  --> Click here to visit our collection of ruby jewelry

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Behind the Jewelry: An interview with Boom Chappell

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The second instalment of Discovered.us interview with Boom is up on their website. In the first instalment Boom talked about the creative process of hand selecting gemstones to go in her jewelry. The second instalment takes us through the creation of the actual jewelry pieces using hand shaped silver. Each piece that Boom crafts is built around a gemstone and the silver, gold or brass that she uses to make her necklaces, earrings, or bracelets all start with the gemstones but take shape when she she adds the precious metals to the mix. Read the whole article here –> https://www.discovered.us/stories/1218/all-handmade-jewelry-of-metal-studio-tells-it-s-own-story

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The Process Behind the Jewlery

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Metal Studio recently received a lovely write up about the process of crafting jewelry. It all starts with the gemstone selection. Boom hand picks every gemstone that goes into her jewelry. Head over to one of our long standing partners to read the whole story about the creative process that Boom takes when she is selecting gemstones and building her unique individually hand crafted designs.   Read the whole article here –>  https://www.discovered.us/stories/1191/the-story-behind-the-unique-jewelry-of-metal-studio?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=blog_metalstudio   And stay tuned for the second instalment of the series where Boom will talk more about the creative process behind actually crafting individual pieces of jewelry.

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2017 Tucson Holidome Show

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Metal Studio Jewelry will be showing at the Tucson gem and jewelry fair at the Holidome. We will be in booth #160. Stop by and see us. January 28th to February 5th 2017

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November Birthstone

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Topaz For those born in November you are lucky. You actually have two birthstones that come in a multitude of colours. The birthstones for November are topaz and citrine. These two gemstones are actually unrelated in terms of mineral composition however yellow topaz is often mistaken for citrine because to the eye they are very similar. Topaz comes in a huge variety of colours from the deep blues of London blue topaz to yellows light blues and even perfectly clear gems.       Citrine Citrine on the other had is slightly more limited but comes in a number of...

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