Most people think California is beaches, surfing, sunshine, and earthquakes but those of us who live here know that that the climate and...

As a Graduate Gemologist, I often get asked what the rarest gemstone is. There are so many gemstones most of us see regularly in jewelry,...

Options, options, who doesn’t like options? When you do a Google search on March’s birthstone, you will find that there are two....

When buying jewelry, one of the main concerns we have is how to care for it because we know that jewelry is not indestructible. Most of...

Gemstone mining has been happening in Brazil for centuries and mostly occurring in the state of Minas Gerais. You will find rich emerald,...

Two Face is a supervillain from the DC comic book series of Batman who is easily identifiable in that one half of his face is normal...

It’s easy to think of gemstones and minerals as the old grandpa because, well, they have been around for as long as the earth has been!...

In ancient Greece, Dionysus was the god of wine and winemaking, amongst other things. He loved to bestow his gifts of wine and...

Normally, I like to talk about gemstone and jewelry specific topics, but since the tradition of giving jewelry is part of our modern-day...

With January coming to a close, I want to talk about a rare phenomena called color change. Color change in a gemstones means that under...

When I first began in the industry, I heard a term that sparked my curiosity. I wasn’t sure if the term actually meant what it said, or...

When you think of Garnets, what color do you associate with it? Most people are going to say red, and that’s because before modern...

Garnet has a long history of being valued and revered, and if you read my blog, www.angelacisneros.com/post/what-s-your-birthstone ,...

Diamonds and electricity?? Thomas Edison sustainably lit the first light bulb in 1879, and his vision of bringing electricity to the...

Many of you have received meaningful jewelry that reminds you how much you are loved. Just as any important person or object in your...

Even if you know very little about jewelry, you know that your birth month has a gemstone associated with it! Sometimes, we like that...

One of the questions I get asked frequently is what distinguishes one gemstone from another. The name of the gemstones we know and love,...

Colored gemstones have so much personality! They can have bright, stunning intensities of color that grab you from across the room or...

Interestingly, colored gemstones are not graded or evaluated in the same way that diamonds are! They have their own set of standards. In...

Shopping for jewelry, especially engagement rings, can be intimidating. We may or may not have an idea of style, we may not understand...