J.R.Dunn’s Jewelry Blog

We found an amazing article today on CNN.com that explained how diamonds are helping chemotherapy drugs be delivered right to their intended targets without the drugs harming healthy cells! They are known as Nanodiamonds and they are so small that hundreds of thousands can fit into the eye of a needle. The diamonds actually surround the drugs blocking them from harming normal healthy cells, then deliver the drugs to their intended targets. More importantly, the leftover diamonds do not induce inflammation in the cells once they have done their job. Amazing! Who’d have thought that the miniature version of what we wear as decoration could make the lives of cancer patients easier, and possibly saves their lives!

*Photo courtesy of CNN.com

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Dont’ be a jewelry snob when it comes to solitaire engagement rings! Working for a high-end jewelry store for a few years can turn even the most practical down-to-earth-girl into a little bit of a “jewelry snob”. Even though I am a lover of John Hardy and Pianegonda (both very affordable sterling silver jewelry lines that we carry in our stores) I just can’t seem to help myself when it comes to diamonds….the more the merrier, the bigger the better, diamonds are a girls best friend, I could go on all day! (more…)

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The Holidays are right around the corner and we are really getting geared up for engagement ring season on JRDunn.com. We wanted to make it easy on all you guys out there to make sure you get her what she really wants for Christmas! So surf on over and check it out. We’ve added ton a information on Colored Diamonds, How to Buy a Diamond and The History of the Engagement Ring. There is absolutely no reason to chicken out now guys!

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The Hot Pick for today is my FAVORITE piece of jewelry in our store. It’s a Fancy Yellow Diamond Ring by Diva, that has almost 12 carats of diamonds! Working for J. R. Dunn Jewelers for almost seven years has made me more of a jewelry lover than I ever thought I could be. I grew up in rural Vermont and the items I see in our store just wouldn’t fly in that conservative lifestyle, Vermonters are very laid back and tend to be VERY practical.

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Have you ever gone to the jewelry store and NOT found the perfect pair of diamond stud earrings that you wanted? Either they were not the right shape, setting, quality or price? JRDunn.com has solved this problem for you! Talk about convenience, we have launched a new “Diamond Stud Earring” search on our website that allows you to hunt from thousands of certified diamonds and matches two diamonds to your specifications! And, you get to place them in whatever setting you wish at the click of a button. Wow! It doesn’t get any simpler!

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Harry Winston is learning the hard way that the publicity created by lending celebrities jewelry for important gala’s the red carpet isn’t alway what it’s cracked up to be! The list of celebrities that have borrowed and lost Harry Winston diamond jewelry or who simply refuse to bring it back is growing. The latest, according to the Daily Mail, is U.K.. Glamour model Kelly Brook. Apparently Brook borrowed a $113,000 Harry Winston diamond bracelet for the Children’s Baftas in 2006 that never was returned. A source says “it must have dropped off” and Kelly Brook refused to pay!

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It turns out the supposed “largest diamond found” is nothing more than a chunk of plastic! The man at the center of all this, Brett Jolly, said he was duped by the current owners of the land in a scheme to get him to purchase the property! What happened to the garage grinder diamond verification test? Surely they couldn’t have really tried it because they would have know instantly it was plastic! I have only two more questions: “Why the heck did it take a month to confirm that it wasn’t a diamond?” and “How much do you think this piece of plastic will fetch on Ebay?”

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