Jeans and Jewlery in Scottsdale: Diamonds!

The Jeans and Jewelery fashion sense of the Scottsdale area has been captured in this ad by the Scottsdale Convention and Visitors Bureau.

If you look carefully you will see those diamonds in the sky are all from the Joan Michlin Collection, just kidding.

Last time we were in Carefree, AZ we had a blast. Click here to read about our adventures.

Thunderbird Art and Wine Festival is the best in the west! Click here for the latest on the show, where you can find Joan Michlin in the Scottsdale area.

The 4 C's of diamonds are carat, color, clarity and cut. 

Joan only uses F color VS1 clarity diamonds in her pieces.  F color is a colorless diamond, like a good engagement ring, see the color scale here
VS1 refers to very slight inclusions. You can see the diamond clarity scale here

Joan's pieces use some of the best diamonds available.  Come down to Carefree to lasso some stars from the heavens for your Scottsdale uniform.

If Camelback Kate from the ad above stopped by in Scottsdale I'd know just what she needs to bring those stars down to earth: the white gold collection.

Joan Michlin is a master designer who's pieces translate well into 14 carat white gold. She is able to do almost all her designs in white gold, and several pieces in the collection in white gold are celestial beauties:


I'd give Kate this beautiful Polaris enhancer, then follow it up with the Explosion Earrings. Similar theme, but not too matchy-matchy, to bring those stars out of the night sky and into her eyes.

And just because I am very naughty, I'd slip on the Millenium Ring (just to see how it fit, of course), because when those gloves come off a diamond collection like that could make the magic of the night go on forever.

Click here to see how much fun we had the last time we were in Scottsdale!

Make the Other Girls Jealous- Coconut Grove Art Festival

Every time the Empress Bracelet came out of the box, we were mobbed. Women would cross the street to comment. Not every woman can be married to Fabio, but after teasing his wife Patricia for two days he made her the envy of the show. She knows she's the lucky one. Want one yourself? Click here.

Coconut Grove Art Festival is a treat for artists and art afficiandos a like. If you are looking for one show where you can go to to buy the best under perfect conditions, I suggest this one (and I know from shows!)

The festival planners try all year to put South Miami’s best face forward and they do it SO well here. Only the very best are vetted in and artists share a confidence that radiates to attract the nearly million visitors to this top fair. More than 400 artists show here in a grand style with smart collectors coming early in the day to beat the Miami heat and the teeming crowds.

Set along the Bay, you can’t go wrong with picking Coconut Grove as a destination spot, for 48 years this art fair has set the standard. The Joan Michlin Collection has been here for about 25 of the last 30 years.

I am pretty sure I have never had so much fun at a show. The customers were one of the best groups on the whole I've seen this year, with lots of new faces, old friends and some great good times.

Fireworks Over the Constellations

This year started off beautifully with fireworks on the beach in Naples. Joan loves fireworks, and while we were looking at the sky afterward overlooking the darkness of the Gulf of Mexico, we could see Orion and the winter constellations.

Small surprise to find the newest earrings and jackets in the collection: Jubilee and Orion. Jubilee undulates delicately like the serpentine motion of falling magnesium rockets and Orion is straight and bold like an explosive spark. These new pieces contrast gold against silver and are easy to acquire with prices starting at $199

Naples was a great chance to meet up with many of our snowbird friends that we see up north in the summer at shows like Ann Arbor in Michigan. A very high quality show set up in one long promenade is a Naples tradition. See you next year!