Holiday Season is quickly approaching so what better time to make a Wishlist! Dream boards and Vision Collages are helping people achieve their goals more and more each day. Looking at a picture of the new car or house you desire every day is believed to turn what you visualize into a reality. Posters containing travel scenery, material luxuries, and even emotional states are covering walls for daily personal inspiration.
We recently installed such an app on our website when a gentleman came into our Hawaii Titanium Ring gallery with tired eyes. He claimed he had been up all night browsing our catalog and was frustrated when he could not easily keep track of the items he was interested in. I asked the client if he had a wish list, what functions would he like it to perform. He simply wanted a page where he could store his choices without adding them to the shopping cart.
Online shoppers are surfing the net for variety, price comparison, and convenience, and Pinterest has become the ultimate tool to store your internet dreams. Installing the Wishlist on our website enables visitors to keep a pin board on the Home Page that they can share and even print out. We have learned that many engaged couples shopping for wedding bands are not necessarily living in the same place yet, so this new storage device will be a fun and helpful way for people in different states to shop for rings together.
Thank you to the man whose browsing overdose led us to this useful upgrade. Our buyers shopping experience has improved and they are navigating the website with added ease and organization. The task of exploring our 900 designs is no longer confusing and frustrating, and customizing is a cinch now that clientele can pinpoint their favorite colors and characteristics.
Whatever you desire today, putting it into pictures and displaying it for the eye to see is proving to be more productive than an image in your memory. Decorate your life with your dreams and soon you may be living them.
Wood rings are a perfect addition to your fall wedding wardrobe. What better time to showcase the season and eternal love; with one of Earth’s most noble and longest living treasures. Titanium wood rings are a triple-threat in jewelry for their looks, luster, and longevity. Wood looks amazing on both men and women especially with the protective coating bringing the wood to a shiny polished finish, and the titanium will literally last forever.
Choosing your wood is a fun and meaningful part of the ring design and clients’ wood decisions seem to be based on preserving memories. Brides and grooms are choosing the wood from trees that grew where they played as children or from a piece of heirloom furniture that was salvaged. Fall weddings are different because they are usually chosen for the scenery and what will photograph well with the color scheme.
Autumn leaves are a beautiful setting to any wedding and the yellow and orange wood rings such as Osage or Pau Amarello are perfect hues to match your backdrop. Redwood and Bloodwood rings look stunning embedded with diamonds and matching sets are being ordered so the rings can be made with the same cut of wood for added connection not only to the time of year, but to each other.
Contrasting wood bands inlaid together are now in high demand. Two Blackwood strips above and below a strip of golden Tiger Koa add elegance and accent a diamond with sophisticated style. Men and women are selecting up to five woods for inlay to represent each child or to showcase their favorite trees. For Fall colors the choices are many and you may not be able to view your ceremony scenery when you are buying rings but rest assured that with wood and Fall, you can’t go wrong. After all, wood is the reason for this season.
Carbon fiber is a light and strong material that is very exclusive and is becoming very popular in manufacturing. It is a very light substance, and once woven into fabric, it is an ideal material for sports equipment benefitting most types of athletes and all race car drivers, and motorcycle racers.
The beauty of Carbon Fiber jewelry is quickly becoming highly prized in fashion. It comes in different colors including red and blue and is very shiny and durable. Hawaii Titanium Rings features Carbon Fiber rings with a combination of materials, including wood and gemstones. You can find them created with exotic wood like Koa and Amboyna and precious gems such as pearl and lapis; a variety of inlays with gorgeous colors, in both traditional and custom styles.
Using Carbon fiber in rings is a brilliant discovery; it is versatile as well as practical. The luster and futuristic appearance deem it appropriate for casual or formal wear. It gives a very solid and heavy look but is really very lightweight and wearable. Such ease and comfort is not present in rings made of other materials, which is why carbon fiber rings have become so desirable for active people. Carbon fiber rings have a huge appeal and are perfect accents to an outfit, whether it is a three piece suit, or jeans and a sweater.
Carbon fiber is not easy to work with, and it takes an experienced jewelry designer to create pieces that exude elegance and distinction. New intricate creations use precious metals like gold and silver along with the carbon fiber, within the design of the ring, which can give these pieces a host of interesting and unique looks.
We are going to see the use of carbon fiber more and more in jewelry designs, and carbon fiber rings on many more fingers. This high-tech substance is unlike any other, and their comfort and wearability make them not only gorgeous pieces of art, but functional pieces of jewelry.
Titanium is the new gold for many people looking for durable wedding rings that will last forever, but lately the health benefits and metaphysical properties are getting the attention of homeopathic practitioners and health conscious couples. The government did not release titanium for public use until 1988 so the advantages of this metal are just now coming to light.
For starters, titanium is completely hypoallergenic, which is why it is used for surgical implants but recent studies show wearing titanium can relieve pain. Bracelets and athletic tapes are being worn by all demographics near their injury or area of discomfort with surprising results. This holistic approach is replacing pain medication for people of all ages and has athletes discarding constricting braces for flexible adhesive strips.
Titanium is also used to promote wellness by balancing the body’s electromagnetics. The constant electronic energy that flows through us can be greatly disrupted by the surrounding machinery that humans come in contact with. Imbalance symptoms can include stiff neck and shoulders, headaches, dizziness, and ringing ears. Wearing a titanium necklace is said to help maintain these electric waves that affect our muscular and nervous system.
Jerry Guire, founder and owner of Hawaii Titanium Rings, did not think about the healing aspects when he made his first titanium ring, he was a machinist making turbo chargers and Aerospace parts and had an idea to make the longest lasting ring. Since then Jerry has pioneered new techniques for ring design that have transformed the jewelry market. Inspired by the Hawaiian Island’s scenery and spirit, Jerry began to inlay wood and stone into the strength of titanium with true intentions of preserving Earth’s elements.
The marriage of nature and ring technology opened a new gateway for people to wear wood that held special memories and gemstones that empowered their lives. Wood not only from their visit to Hawaii, but from the tree they swung on as kids, or from their house that was destroyed by a tornado. Gemstones are worn not just for color and clarity, but to target ailments and ambition. Encasing pieces of history along with hopes and dreams were great ideas separately but the true wedding bliss came with the combination of both.
Wood next to stone in titanium is a revelation that has multiplied style possibilities into the thousands and each creation is one-of-a-kind. No longer are men and women bound to a plain band to accommodate their active lifestyles, they can wear diamonds that are flush with the ring’s surface embedded in wood. Designed for medicinal or metaphysical, memory or meaning, the extraordinary beauty of each piece is stunning and tells a story while it heals your past and guides your future.
Amber has been around since Paleolithic and Neolithic times and its uses reflect many different cultures. In ancient times it was used as protection, in medical potions, and worn as jewelry. As far back as 12,000 BC amber trade was a way for different regions to communicate with each other.
Found in only a few areas, amber, which is a plant resin, was a highly valued stone. It was actually the first commercially traded commodity, considered a treasured gemstone. Its early routes included the Baltic Sea, through the Elbe River and then down the Danube.
Archeologists have found evidence that there were jewelers’ workshops that worked in amber as early as Neolithic times and amber has been unearthed from houses’ foundations indicating that it may have been placed there to ensure a family’s good fortune.
The ancient amber trade routes came down by boat from the north through the Elbe, then down the Oder from the western part of Pomerania into Bohemia, on the Vistula, then to the Black Sea Coast from the Samland Peninsula. Then it led over land into the very center of the Roman Empire - Italy.
Overland routes existed from the 1st-4th centuries BC, re-run by the Celts, and artifacts made of amber have been found by archeologists in Greece, Egypt in the tomb of Tutankhamen, and even in the city of Brighton in England where an amber cup is on display.
Rome became the center of the amber trade around the 1st Century BC and they used it in art objects, jewelry and even as currency. It was considered even more valuable than the slaves who harvested it.
During the Dark Ages amber could be found in religious objects, in the shape of the cross, and as sculptures of a religious nature. At the end of the 12th Century AD, the Teutonic Knights, upon coming home from the crusades as the rulers of Prussia, were in control of the manufacture of Baltic amber. It was used, during this period in rosaries and only religious representations. Anyone found with amber that wasn’t being used in a rosary could lose their life; such was the priceless nature of the gem.
Amber producing trees are known as Pinus Succinifera. Amber, which is called succinit, actually comes from the tree’s vascular tissues and is produced when either there is serious climate change or injury to the tree. Insects, wood, and leaves can become trapped in the resin, and act as time capsules of a sort, and have been studied by scientists.
Amber is not derived from minerals and stands as one of only 3 precious gems that come from vegetation, along with jet and diamonds. Baltic amber has some of the highest levels of succinite, which is what determines its value, and so is considered to be the best amber in existence.
Amber’s origins and uses have a complex and interesting history. Still highly valued today, it is seen as a look into the past, and many people proudly wear amber pendants, rings, bracelets, and earrings to represent ancestry and history.
