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Romancing the Colour in a Stone
How are you communicating colours to your customers in ways that appeal? With the seemingly unending array of...
How Grading Color Gems is Different to Grading Diamonds
The 4 C’s, T and O of Natural Color Gems With the growth of the internet diamond consumer, the parlance of the 4 C's...
Ruby Sizes and Weights
Ruby Sizes and Weights One of the most useful tools a jeweller can have when designing jewellery is an idea of what...
All you need to know about Fancy Colour Sapphires (Almost)
As you will know from our previous post, Sapphires come in a whole rainbow of colours, and anything that is not a blue...
Know your Coloured Diamonds: The Certificate of Authenticity
When you are buying loose coloured diamonds or a coloured diamond ring – no matter where you buy it from; at home,...
Gem Reports and Certificates
Gem Reports and Labs When working with coloured gemstones and diamonds, today more than ever, it is important to be...
All You Need to Know About Fancy Coloured Diamonds (Almost)
Fancy Coloured Diamonds In the previous section we looked at Emeralds, now we turn to Fancy Coloured Diamonds. The...
All You Need to Know About Emeralds (Almost)
Emeralds Emerald is a member of the Beryl family and is given its green hues primarily by chromium in the stone....
All You Need to Know About Sapphires (Almost)
Sapphire In the last section of the gemstone guide, we took a look at Rubies. This section of the Gemstone Guide gets...
All You Need to Know About Rubies (Almost)
Ruby This page offers all the essential information you need about rubies. What they are, where they come from and...
Understand how Coloured Gemstones are Different from White Diamonds
In the last section of the gemstone guide, we introduced the notion of coloured gemstones and diamonds. Now we start...
A Quick Thought… On Diamond Overgrading
A story that was covered in this week's Thank TheGemBank it's Friday was "Rapaport Calls Diamond Overgrading...
Here’s to a Great 2014 – MERRY CHRISTMAS!
I hope you have a Happy Holiday and a Wonderful 2014. I look forward to working with you in the new year. Best regards...
Death of the Family Jeweller
I wrote this blog 2 years ago, I find it as relevant today as it was then. Please let me know if your business is...
Happy Holidays
To all our friends We wish you a wonderful holiday season. May 2013 be filled with Health Happiness and Prosperity. I...
Spread the Love Throughout the Year, Not Just on Valentines Day!
Spread the love all year. Many businesses right now are breathing a sigh of relief that the big Christmas dash is out...
Here we Go Again – Happy New Year!
As you were stuffing yourself with mulled wine and mince pies many of you were probably thinking about the coming year...
Something New For 2012 – Are you Excited?
In between the mulled wine and mince pies many of us are thinking about the coming year and what we ca do to achieve...
The Half Way Review
Reviewing Your Goals – 6 months on... Time flies when you are working hard on your own business! It’s hard to believe...
What Is So Good About Bad Weather?
Recently, the weather in Europe has been quite cold. For many, the cold weather is bad news; however, if you have a...
Goldsmiths’ Fair Week 2: The Events that Happened!
I was lucky enough to get to the second week of the Goldmiths' Fair in London last week and again I was blown away by...
Visit Goldsmiths’ Fair. It’s where the Future’s at…
I went to week one of goldsmiths' fair with a very fresh perspective.  With everything  that's been going on with the...
The Waitrose Paradox – Why Jewellers Need Gem Dealers
People often tell me they don’t need a Gemstone Dealer as they have their own suppliers in the East and they go to...
Death of the Family Jeweller and Other Nonsense
I once heard someone say if it’s raining, don’t complain, go out and buy an umbrella!’ In most cases the internet has...
Yes it’s 2010 and my Site is Up
Firstly Happy New 2010. A while back I said my site was undergoing a complete overhaul. Well it's almost like my life...
Emerging Butterfly
I know this might look a little lame - no post since March, but I have been stuffing the site into a cocoon, and...
Welcome to Colour in its Element
Colour in its element is the gateway to Haruni Fine Gems (where you can search my stock of Gemstones and Coloured...
IJL Review 2008
As autumn draws in, we review another year at International Jewellery London at Earl’s Court last week. This year,...
