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As it reads in the National Jeweler Network's website, this month their "Best of" Award is for SILVER! Enter with your fave and hope you win!

Here is some of the info, the website is: http://njn.nielsencontests.com/index.shtml



In 12 separate contests, one each month through 2009, covering every important category, National Jeweler's Best of Awards will recognize our industry's most outstanding jewelry design and retailer marketing. Don't miss your chance to be recognized as our… Continue

The news came today by email from National Jeweler Network, and this must be seen! What a gorgeous ring! The Diamond Trading Co. (DTC) launched an award-winning collection of diamond jewelry in South Africa last week.

The winning piece came from South African designer Bhekithemba Ngema, a 2008 Tshwane University of Technology graduate. Ngema created a 16-carat diamond ring using 18-karat yellow gold and 725 diamonds totaling 16… Continue

Sponsored by NICHE magazine, the NICHE Top Retailer Awards annually recognize the best craft retailers, arts nonprofits, museum stores and guilds in the U.S. and Canada for growing and strengthening the North American craft community. Only 24 retailers will be named a 2009 Top Retailer, and only one will win the coveted 2009 NICHE Retailer of the Year award. NICHE magazine will also honor 10 retailers, arts nonprofits, museums and guilds in special categories including Best Visual… Continue

Six pages of the new Jewelry Design book published by daab feature some of Kathy’s more unusual recent work. The book is a stunning compendium of international jewelry design, a perfect coffee table book for inspiration.

"Jewelry is commonly perceived as a beautiful piece of wearable art: stand-alone, sculptural, and aloof. However, in order to understand contemporary jewelry design, we need to view the work as we would the product of any design field: as conceptual projects, as material… Continue

February 12-16, 2009, is when the US and Canadian jewelry designers and artists gather to show the latest trends in jewelry and their most recent work, at the Buyers Market of American Craft, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, PA.