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Please   no more candy, flowers, chocolates or other uninspired gifts this Mothers Day. Havent your moms, grandmoms, and wives earned a bit more creativity from you?

Consider a piece of fine custom jewelry that is personalized just for them.

And consider a really nice discount to go along with that creative gift selection. Use the coupon code mday12 at checkout and receive a 10% discount off your entire order. Order by April 24th and we guarantee free delivery by Mothers Day.

Now, what piece to get her/them hmmmm.  Heres some creative ideas.

This simple, yet so elegant, stacking name ring with (or without) birthstone is one of our most popular pieces. Such a nice contrast to those oh-so-fussy name/birthstone rings.

Another big favorite is our Family Spiral Birthstone pendant for grandmoms, or moms with big families! I

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The front row of the press pre­view today was a who’s who of fash­ion journalism’s elite and included Anna Win­tour and exhi­bi­tion sub­ject, Miuc­cia Prada, they sat a mere three rows in front of me, Sally Singer, Hamish Bowles and Susy Menkes (in pur­ple from head to toe) two rows ahead, and every­one else was seated in ran­dom order to hear the open­ing remarks of cura­tors, Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton. Mr. Koda, Cura­tor in Charge, is always a plea­sure to lis­ten to, he wields the kind of author­ity that is com­pelling and unas­sum­ing at the same time. He is truly one of the very few “fash­ion insid­ers” who is authen­ti­cally inter­ested in what peo­ple think about fash­ion, rather than impos­ing his view­point and for­get­ting the pop­ulist influ­ence that style and trends absorb by osmo­sis. I do enjoy lis­ten­ing to Mr. Bolton as well; his view of the exhi­bi­ti

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Silver Charms bring more than good luck! To date Nina Designs has funded over $20,000 in microloans for women artisans in Asia, Africa and Central/south America. Economic independence is a key factor in escaping poverty. Thank you for helping us provide loans at 0% interest to women who are using their creativity to improve the lives of their families.

Siriporn is a young woman in Thailand who supports her parents through her jewelry designs. Can you recognize yourself in her description of the creative process? I walk slowly and survey the environment around me – even small grass flowers growing beside the road, the caterpillar on the tree branch. I have looked at them until they turn into butterflies. All of these serve as inspiration to create my jewelry.

Nilda Amaro Oscanoa used her loan to repair her looms. S

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Were always excited when a customer comes to us with a new personalization idea that weve never tried before. Leslie is such a customer.

Leslie wanted to have several West African Adinkra symbols placed on our 25mm Vertical Pendant. These symbols are wonderfully bold and distinctive graphical icons that are a perfect fit for our jewelry. Each symbol represents a phrase or concept.

Leslie chose the AKOMA, WAWA ABA and SESE WO SUBAN symbols which roughly translate to heart, perseverance, and change. Her resource for the symbols was which has crisp images available.

We think Leslies sterling silver Adinkra pendant came out beautifully, and, were happy to report, so does Leslie.  I wanted to let you know that I got my pendant today and it is absolutely perfect!!! ~

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Brooke Astor was among the last of the “Grand Dames” of New York matron soci­ety. When she lent her name and her finan­cial sup­port to an insti­tu­tion, the endorse­ment was a seal of approval that inspired the gen­eros­ity of oth­ers. Mar­ried for the third time to Vin­cent Astor, the only son of John Jacob Astor IV who died on the Titanic, she led a life devoted to phil­an­thropy and tak­ing plea­sure in par­ties most of us only get to read about the next morn­ing. She did all of this until age of one hun­dred, per­haps a wee bit longer, and passed away at 105 in 2007. In her will, her tomb­stone was to say sim­ply that, “I had a won­der­ful life.”

Evi­dence of Mrs. Astor’s plea­sur­able days also take tan­gi­ble form in the way she dec­o­rated her homes, the art she enjoyed, and yes, her jew­elry too. The lion brooch below is rem­i­nis­cent o

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