Category Archives: The Emporium Dictionary

Let’s Discuss Adularia

I love mixing things and having a great outcome. When you mix hard work, dedication, and an idea to do something great outcomes success. When you mix eggs, milk, chocolate chips, and a bunch of other stuff outcomes chocolate chip cookies and brownies. The point is those things alone taste or look horrible. But when [...]

Let’s Discuss African Emerald

Here’s another term also originating from Africa that doesn’t mean what it says. I’ve noticed that this happens quiet often in cz jewelry terms. It is called one thing but it really means something else. I’ll give you an example of this. The school I went to was called Texas High School. The hilarious part [...]

Let’s Discuss African Jade

Have you ever thought something and then realized things aren’t the way they seem to be. Many modern silver jewelry films have this type of synopsis these days. What happens is you watch the entire movie thinking one thing, and right at the very end everything seems to change and be something else. A great [...]

Let’s Discuss Amethyst Stones

The color of Amethyst can be related to a range in the color purple but can be on the darker end or lighter end or a mixture of both CZ rings. Even at times it can give off a light greenish lavender type feel. If you are searching for Amethyst jewelry you can find it [...]

Let’s Discuss Acroite Color

It is said that somethings in life are straight up commodities. I’ll give you a few examples incase you haven’t heard that type of terminology before – Pencils, Paper, & Pens. As an example, these items can be picked up at your local convenient for less then a ninety nine cents. Not bad for materials [...]

Let’s Discuss Acrostic Jewelry

At different points during history things become popular, go down in style, and are gone forever. This has happened over and over again with so many things, not just jewelry. I’ll give you a few examples:

Music
CZ Rings
Movies
Celebrities
Fashion
Clothing
Styles
Etc

I could go on and on, but you get the picture. One example of this is the Twilight series [...]

Let’s Discuss Abalone Materials

There are items out there that have many many purposes and Abalone is one of those items. It is used to make everything from high end furniture, to quality clothing, to fine designer jewelry pieces. Unlike what most people conventionally believe about the term it has a Spanish origin, not an English origin as you [...]

Let’s Discuss Adamantine Hardness

Hot or cold? Cool or lame? Fun or boring? These sound like typical opposites that we are presented with on a daily basis. Well when you are going to purchase jewelry, in specific diamond jewelry, one thing to look out for is hardness of the actual stone. What is hardness? It’s simply how strong a [...]

Let’s Discuss Agents In Jewelry

Have you ever purchased a home? Or an expensive share in a publicly traded company? Well if you have, then you understand what an agent is. Many times in business deals, real estate purchases, and public companies you have to deal with an agent instead of direct purchase. The reason for this is because the [...]

Let’s Discuss Agate

Do you know what makes up a pencil? It’s an object we’ve all used plenty of times yet no one I’ve ever asked that question can answer it. Kind of funny when you think about the many other things much larger that we use on a daily basis such silver ring computers, television sets, microwaves, [...]