February 28th, 2012
I can’t believe JEWELHISTORY.COM is almost five years old! March 1st marks this milestone. This blog began as a labor of love, a way to talk about jewelry that didn’t exist on the net — or anywhere else. I’ve seen my thoughts reprinted and borrowed throughout the years and all I can say is a […]
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January 18th, 2012
Our son and web developer, Josh Gross, was interviewed by BBC5LIVE’S Jamillah Knowles about his launch of HOPPER — a web app that allows you to save links to images, text, and files to a cloud instead of sending them to your already overstuffed email box. It’s FREE, and has been the solution to what […]
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December 9th, 2011
This week’s episode was The Wizard of Oz. The show began with Kenneth Cole’s noir directive for Holiday 2011 — clearly a nod to the personal style of Wicked Witch of East. It was black, black, and more black: black dresses (didn’t we already have the LBD challenge…?), black pants, black faux fur, and black […]
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December 5th, 2011
I’m represented by Random House Speakers Bureau, the website of which has just relaunched with a gorgeous new look. If you would like to book a lecture for the coming year, please contact Kim Thornton at kthornton@randomhouse.com. My new RHSB web page may be accessed here
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November 23rd, 2011
It’s getting noisy around here. Yes!!!! (fist pump) Our home is ringing with laughter, busy with hustle and bustle, doors revolving from comings and goings, and the greeting of arrivals, and still more arrivals. This is more like it! Happy Thanksgiving! Our now much too quiet house has been difficult to get used to since […]
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July 28th, 2011
Mining precious metals is a murky business. Cyanide leaching is just one of many health, safety, and ethical issues that makes mining precious metals so questionable in practice and in theory. Once the metal is extracted, the ore is crushed, piled in enormous heaps, and sprayed with cyanide. This causes the gold to leach out […]
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May 13th, 2011
Yes, ten days is too long between posts, in case anyone was counting. I’ve been a busy, busy, person of late. I did a voice over for a web magazine this week, and believe it or not, I also had a couple of very interesting job interviews. I can’t say who, what, or when, however, […]
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March 10th, 2011
Update 3.11.11 — Prayers for the people of Japan, and for those on our own shores. If you want to help, please donate to the American Red Cross. I did as soon as I heard the news. Ah, Paris, where fashion and jewelry are just…killer? Naughty, or intimidating? Jean Charles de Castelbajac sent down the runway […]
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November 30th, 2010
Though only a senior at Montclair State University in New Jersey, Melissa Graff’s swirling copper, brass, gold and silver wire jewelry combines contemporary art, Modernist sculpture and massage therapy with the eye of a journeyed artisan. Trained as a masseuse, Graff molds her necklaces so that they fit comfortably along the touch points of the […]
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September 12th, 2010
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