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gdesign is a jewelry design company specialing in original glass and metal designs paired with precious metals and semi-precious stones.
gdesign offers a major collection each spring and fall and smaller collections throughout the year such as the vintage and special edition collections.
In addition, gdesign can create custom designs for special occasions or bridal parties.
gdesign...wearable art in glass, metal, and stone
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2009 Spring/Summer Color Trends
...Straight from the world of fashion and the top haute couture designers, is the 2009 Spring/Summer color chart. Lots of blues, grays and violets for this season.
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FishScaleTM beads, are gdesign's latest edition to its collection of uniquely designed glass beads.
Layers and layers of carefully placed opaque and transparent glass create a fishscale effect that mirrors many things in nature.
They are used in the Silver Lining trio necklace to capture the stormy gray and violet thunderclouds before a summer storm and also the puffy white clouds on that clear blue sky just after the storm vents its fury. Click here for more on FishScaleTM beads.
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Dear Friends,
Spring has arrived! And not a moment too soon. Banish your winter blahs with the dazzling colors of spring and summer. gdesign's long-awaited Spring/Summer collection is here! Crystal blues, languid greens, soothing aquas, pastel pinks and lavenders, bright oranges and yellows. All are part of the theme of the 2009 Spring/Summer Collection: Nature in All its Glory.
The inspiration for the collection came from my observations of nature...sunlight glinting on ocean waves, the storm clouds just before a summer thunderstorm, the languid lagoons of Tahiti, the early spring garden during an easter egg hunt, and the fresh and fragrant blooms of lilacs and peonies in the spring. I tried to capture them here for you in my jewelry. I hope you love wearing them as much as I did designing them. Click here for the Spring/Summer collection. As always, email me anytime at info@gdesignontheweb.com, I love to hear what you have to say,
gail zona, gdesign
P.S. Check out the new banner picture just above. It's the Deep in the Jungle trio from the Spring/Summer collection. See the tigers and zebras and giraffes peeking out from the jungle vines?
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Announcing the
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The 2009 Spring/Summer Collection is officially announced just in time for spring! The theme, Nature in all its Glory, is celebrated in each trio and duo from Silver Lining and Flora and Fauna (above) to Crystal Ocean and Lilacs and Peonies (below). The blues, greens, aquas, and purples of nature come alive in the semi-precious gems of azurite, lapis lazuli, larimar, chalcedony, chrysoprase, jade, and iolite and of course in Swarovski crystals and gdesign original glass beads.
 
The Spring/Summer collection offers full trios of necklace, bracelet and earrings as well as duos of bracelets and earrings. Whether you are a gold or silver person or are looking for something for the office, for casual wear, for a special occasion or for that memorable gift for birthday or mother's day, gdesign's 2009 Spring/Summer collection has something for you. Click here to see the new collection. | |
Chrysoprase, a "leeky" gemstone
Chrysoprase (KRIS-oh-praze) or chrysophase, is a gemstone variety of chalcedony (chowl-SED-oh-nee) that contains small quantities of nickel. Its color is normally a beautiful apple-green but it varies to dark green. Other members of this same mineral variety include agate, carnelian, and onyx. Unlike the others, though, it's the color, rather than the markings that make this gemstone unique. The word, chrysoprase comes from the Greek chrysos meaning gold and prason meaning leek.
Sources for chrysoprase are Australia, Germany, Russia, Brazil, and the US (Arizona and California), but the best known is lower Silesia in Poland.
Chrysoprase has been used for spiritual protection and victory. During early times, it was used for decorating chapels, including the famous Wenceslaus Chapel in Prague. In the 1800's, it was said to help thieves become invisible. Keep your chrysoprase out of sunlight as it can fade. Perhaps that's how it helped the thieves!
Chrysoprase is the predominant stone in the Spring Collection's Tahitian Lagoon. 
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