Rebecca Zemans Jewelry Blog — This and That

This blog post is dedicated to Mohs scale of hardness. We use it frequently with our stone of the month series so we wanted to take this opportunity to dedicate an entire post to explain it. It is important to know the Mohs hardness in order to better care for different gemstones. The Mohs scale is a way of measuring a stone's scratch resistance against a harder material. It was invented in 1812 by the German geologist and mineralogist Friedrich Mohs and ever since has been used to test and describe the hardness of minerals. While Mohs was the first...

An alternative birthstone for March is Jasper, a gemstone known for its many colors and its beautiful and unique patterns. Jasper is often thought to be part of the chalcedony class of gemstones. However, it can contain up to 20% foreign material, which results in the beautiful patterns. This makes Jasper considered a group of its own. The Jasper is a 6.5 on the Mohs scale of hardness, which makes it a fairly hard gemstone.  The Jasper rarely comes in one uniform color. Most of the time these gemstones have streaks or spots of other colors, which results in many names for the...

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...

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...