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09.05.2012

She loves blue sapphire, naturally he would want to get her a blue sapphire engagement ring. Blue sapphires are popular nowadays as an engagement ring stone. I looked thru many stones and selected the final four for him with different price point, carat weight and color tones. Guess which one he picked? We looked [...]
Tags: 19K white gold, blue sapphire engagement ring, custom made, custom made engagement ring, diamonds, rings, round brilliant cut, wedding jewelry Vancouver
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10.04.2012

I’ve talked about the different ways of wearing Bonn Bons. I’d like to show people how pretty Bonn Bon rings can be. So, let’s start with two different size of ring shanks and two charms. Then, assemble them, slide the charms thru ring shanks to make them into rings. I am using my assistant Puraz [...]
Tags: Bonn Bon charms, champaigne diamonds, right hand rings, rings, Turquise
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20.03.2012

This client is referred to me by my old client, we had a casual meeting, briefly talked about jewelry and he told me she wanted a blue sapphire engagement ring instead of a diamond ring. After explaining to him about the cut, color and tone about sapphires, we decided to narrow down to size from [...]
Tags: 19K white gold, blue sapphires, custom made, custom made engagement ring, round brilliant cut, sapphire
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05.03.2012

Bonn Bon charms is versatile! Picture is worth 1000 words so let me show you. I asked my assistant Puraz to play model for me! So, in the picture we started with 4 charms but you can really do whatever you want, 3, or 7 or 8! We sort of went with the color blue [...]
Tags: Bonn Bon charms, bracelet, charms, necklace, spinel, topaz, versitile jewelry
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16.02.2012

I looked at many charm brands before I opened a jewellery store in Yaletown www.secretsapphire.ca. I decided to bring in Bonn Bons into Vancouver after comparing it to many more well known charm brands. Reason being is that it’s very well priced, great value, it’s all precious and semi-precious stones and hand made in sterling silver. I [...]
Tags: Bonn Bons charms Vancouver, charm bracelets, jewelry store Vancouver, Lori Bonn, semi precious stones, sterling silver
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10.02.2012

When I decided to open a store, I started travelling more to different jewellery conferences and sourced unique jewelry designers that Vancouver hasn’t seen. First designer that caught my eye was Margo Morrison. Margo cleverly uses a lot of different precious and semi-precious gemstones in all her jewellry. Her design is so simple but yet [...]
Tags: citrine, garnet, gemstone necklaces, jewelry store Vancouver, layered necklaces, Margo Morrison jewelry, moonstone, semi precious stones, smokey quartz
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26.05.2011

This client wanted to make the old simple yellow gold jade ring from her mom into a more in style ring to wear on the right hand. After the remake, it becomes a classic heirloom piece. It’ll never go wrong to set anything with diamonds! I also appraised it for her and after examining it, [...]
Tags: heirloom jewelry remake, jade ring with diamond halo, jadeite vs. nephrite, ring upgrade, statement ring, Vancouver gemologist jeweler
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18.05.2011

It’s a ring makeover. We decided to put blue sapphires into the ring setting to make it a little different from everyone else’s. Simple, elegant and unique!
Tags: custom ring setting, engagement ring upgrade, round brilliant solitaire, Vancouver custom jewelry, Vancouver gemologist jeweler
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28.04.2011

The oval blue sapphire is approx. 12 carat, surrounded by 14 round brilliant cut diamonds in 18K white gold. It is a very classic and popular design among colored diamonds and colored gemstones. When you have a beautiful main stone, you don’t need to pick busy and complicated designs for it. Less is more [...]
Tags: 12 carat blue sapphire, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, gemologist jeweler, Kate Middleton engagement ring, Prince William, royal heirloom ring, Vancouver custom jewelry
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14.03.2011

Coral gemstones hae been regarded as an unique, mysterious gemstone that is not only beautiful, but also precious. Since the quantity of coral gemstones continues to decrease, the desire of possessing coral has never been stronger. In the past 20 years, the price of coral gemstones has multiplied by more than 34 times. [...]
Tags: coral gemstone, coral jewelry, custom design jewelry, Vancouver gemologist jeweler
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