Rebecca Zemans Jewelry Blog — Jewelry Update

This year is already so crazy, we have yet another exciting development to share with you! We are now selling some of our pieces, including one very EXCLUSIVE piece on Trendseeder! Trendseeder is a super fun and new website, where you can get unique limited edition fashion pieces from emerging designers. We love Trendseeder, because they spend a lot of energy describing the very strong connection between the designers and their products. I myself did an interview with Trendseeder, explaining my work a little bit more in depth. Click here to check it out. The exclusive piece for Trendseeder comes...

Onyx, our alternative birthstone of the month, is a variety of microcrystalline quartz, called chalcedony and found worldwide. Onyx was used in Egypt as early as the Second Dynasty to make utilitarian items such as bowls. Today it is often used for ornamental carvings and jewelry. Onyx jewelry is commonly found with cut cabochons or beads. The piece we made with onyx features a faceted cut version.  The onyx is formed by deposits of silica in gas cavities found in lava and measures 7 on the Mohs Scale of Hardness. Because of the environment where the stone is formed, the...

Happy New Year! We have exciting news to share! Next week we will be introducing our brand new "HOW TO" blog series! We are very excited about this blog series, as it will not only feature many new and exciting pictures but also videos featuring how the magic happens! We want to give you a better insight on how we make our jewelry, how we take care of it and many more insider tips and tricks. Also, we would love to hear some ideas from you! So if there is something you want to see or if you have a...

We hope your holiday season is going as well as ours! Thank you so much to all of you who came out to the One of a Kind Show and our studio sales! Each show was a great success and we couldn't have done it without you... Thank you! To all of you who couldn't make it to any of the shows, don't worry, there is still a way for you to get your hands on beautiful one-of-a-kind jewelry for the holidays! Like us on facebook and get 10% off when you come by the studio this week to pick out...

The Denver Art Museum, which is one of the largest art museums between Chicago and the West Coast, was founded in 1893 as the Denver Artists' Club and today features a collection of more than 70,000 works of art. One of the Denver Art Museum's more well-known pieces is 'Linda', the sleeping, life-like sculpture of a woman by John DeAndrea. Linda is made out of polyvinyl and human hair (on head and arms) in an effort to make her look as real as possible. While Linda is always a massive attraction, she only comes out periodically, in an effort to...