True Blue

As 2020 marches ever closer, chaotic current events swirling around pretty much anywhere one looks, don’t seem to be lessening. But the color of the year will but a damper on the high stress world we live in. Think of a Santa Fe summer sky in Classic Blue, a deep comforting blue. This is the dependable blue that says, sure unpleasant practices and ideas are rising from the shadows to be cleared away, but no matter what shenanigans the rest of the world is up to, there is a dependable life path that you can trust as we run pell mell into the next decade.

So What Color Are We talking About?

Imagine your family gathers at dusk along the oceans shore baking potatoes and crabs in a blazing fire. It’s that deep blue of the sky just before the stars start to pop and the blessed velvet black sets in overhead.  That’s the color. The ripples of the ocean, a ripe bowl of blueberries, that fine tailor made suit that fit’s like a glove in the office or on the town. Steady and reliable. Comfortable and consistent.

Everybody’s Favorite Sapphire

Hey we’re are not talking stodgy here. We are talking about one of the most popular green colored gemstones on the planet, Blue Sapphire. Ruby’s true blue cousin in the Corundum family, sapphire is dependable,  relatively hard—coming in at a 9 on the Mohs scale. A heritage stone used for rings and pendants, and even tiara’s for many generations, sapphire has excellent toughness and no cleavage, which is a tendency to break when struck.  So it has been a natural choice for rings, including engagement rings that can be worn every day. 

Singing the Blues 

Now is always a good time to sing the sapphire blues. By the way, there is a wide range of our constant color companion. Many US  buyers are familiar with a very deep hue with intense tone and deep saturation. But here at the Gem Boutique, since Jin Jou has gone straight to the mines in Sri Lanka and other locations across the globe,  there is a choice of colors to choose from. Ceylon blue a pleasant and intense color is brighter and just as hard. There is an African grey blue in light and medium hues. And London Blue is a must have for every prince and princess. So with classic blue sapphires to look forward to, 2020 is going to be the start of a new decade full of bright new ways of living. So start dreaming Big and Blue.

Oval Cut Sapphire Diamond Ring                                       14K Yellow Gold

Diamond with Blue Sapphire trillion cut                                        ring on aloe

Blue Sapphire Diamond Pendant  in                       14K White Gold

Blue Sapphire and Diamond ring                  14K White  Gold

It’s that Time of Year

Gifts of the Season come in many forms. As late fall turns to winter the days grow short and home is more inviting. Traditionally fall is when the harvest is ripe and heavy and gathered into bales and bundles tucked safely into the barn. The farmer can rest assured the animals will be housed as needed and fed though the cold snowy months.

Time to See the Big Picture

The short days and long blessed nights are a time to review the activities of the past year, repair as needed plus reflect on both the good and the bad. But most of all it is a time to spend catching up with family and friends sharing the bounty derived from the year’s toil.

Here at the Gem Boutique we are catching up with friends and family, but the resting part hasn’t kick in yet. This is more like Santa’s Workshop as we design custom jewelry whether  its engagement rings, anniversary rings or other expressions of love. Even Santa will pop in once in a while and make a recommendation.

Santa’s other sleeve…

Santa Sets the Gifting Trends

Turns out Santa has lots of beguiling beauties up his sleeve perfect for Gifts of the Season like this oval cut garnet beauty with round bezel set diamonds on the side. One of our Gifts of the Season is a Christmas story from Europe that goes like this.

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Ole’ Saint Nick was making his way through a rural village and heard of a family that was having a hard time making ends meet. With three growing daughters in the home, it was hard to amass the required dowry to make a suitable marriage match for the spunky gals. One evening the daughters washed their stockings as usual and hung them to dry overnight by the fire.

This is where Ole’ St. Nick found them and had a remedy on hand for their family financial pain. Into each stocking he slid a round yellow ball of glittering gold.  Well when the sun rose, there was much celebrating in the family, for now the three lovely ladies would be able to marry and take their place in the community.

Modern Gifts

Today it would be very rare to drop a chunk of gold in a stocking “hung by the fire”. However the tradition of giving gifts of gold continues. Now the gold is fashioned into jewelry that can be worn and passed down to family members as keepsakes.

Gem Boutique offers the opportunity to create a completely new piece of fine custom jewelry that will hold it’s value down through the ages to come.   Totally in house, we can create your ring, necklace, bracelet or pin  from design to polish.

We fashion, handcraft and cast all under our own auspices resulting in beautiful works of wearable art.  So as the days grow shorter and the nights grow longer isn’t it time to ask,  “What’s in your stocking”?

With Christmas coming around the corner, we check in with Santa to see what he has up his sleeve for 2019.  Sure enough he did not disappoint. His first choice is an oval cut green emerald mounted in four prongs all set in 14K yellow gold. This cheerful emerald is an evergreen beauty. It is sure to please every time you look down and see it shining from your finger.

What’s up Santa’s sleeve?