It is the most wonderful time of the year at Carreras Jewelers!
Everyone comes into our store looking to find the perfect gift for their loved ones and leaves with something truly special. Our stocking stuffers, ornaments, and special holiday fine jewelry pieces are always at the top of people’s lists.
So without further ado…here are our 2015 Holiday Specials!
Our Sterling Silver snowflake earrings and pendant would look great at any holiday gathering and make stocking stuffers! Together they are $125 (regularly $155, also sold separately).
If you want to add a little more bling, we also offer the snowflake pendant with a diamond accent in sterling silver for $110 (regularly $135) and in yellow gold for $295 (regularly $375)
We know everyone loves our sterling silver Hand and Hammer Silversmith ornaments! We have a variety of these beautiful ornaments online and in our store.
Finally, the holidays are not complete without diamonds!! These 14K white gold petite diamond circle pendants, featuring a single ruby, emerald, or sapphire are amazing with a special holiday price of $1195 (regularly they start at $1485). We also have a beautiful all diamond pendant with a special holiday price of $1395 (regularly $1850).
All of our holiday specials are available online and in our store on Libbie Avenue.
From all of us at Carreras Jewelers, we wish you a wonderful holiday season!
Silver Restoration Event
These are Not Grandmas Brooches!
Brooches are back — you heard it here first. Inspired by T&C’s September issue, Frank Everett, the VP and Sales Director of Sotheby’s Jewelry Department, selected his favorites from Sotheby’s upcoming Important Jewels sale. From birds encrusted with rubies and sapphires to geometric diamond designs, you can find a brooch to suit any style. And if you decide on a favorite, feel free to bid on it at Sotheby’s on September 24th and 25th, and wear them in your hair à la Jackie Kennedy, or on your cardigan like Sarah Jessica Parker.
The Gemological Institute of America explores this July birthstone and why it’s one of the most historically significant stone.
“Red is the color of our most intense emotions—love and anger, passion and fury. It’s associated with objects of power and desire—like fast cars and red roses.”
Long known as the “Queen of Gems,” pearls possess a history and allure far beyond what today’s wearer may recognize. Throughout much of recorded history, a natural pearl necklace comprised of matched spheres was a treasure of almost incomparable value, in fact the most expensive jewelry in the world.
“Pearls are more delicate than you might think: Contact with metal and gemstones, another pearl, or even rough textiles can scratch them. Exposure to chemicals, including everyday cosmetics, can mar or pit pearls. If allowedto dry out they may discolor, or even crack. The good news is that caring for and storing your pearls really isn’t that complicated.” Brown Safe offers Do’s & Don’ts for Preserving the Priceless.
Their quick glance at protecting during everyday wear:
1. Put your pearls on last–after you’ve already applied all your cosmetics and toiletries, including hairspray, perfume, lotion, and makeup.
2. Take your pearls off first–before you apply makeup remover, lotion, or any other cleansers or cosmetics.
3. Clean your pearls after you wear them, using cotton swabs or a soft cloth. You can use non-chlorinated water to clean your pearls if necessary, but stay away from soap, chemicals, or anything abrasive (including toothpaste).
4. If you wear your pearls often, have them restrung about once a year. Ask the jeweler to put a small knot between each pearl if appropriate–this’ll keep the pearls from bumping against one another, and also keep them from all sliding off the string together if it happens to break.
Shop all of our Pearl pieces and come in store for your cleaning and re-stringing needs.
The Overflowing Jewelry Box
By nature we are gatherers and collectors; but what happens when your collection turns into and overflowing jewelry box? The Carreras team is here to help! See our tips, ideas, and services we offer for all of your jewelry collections.
Clean out the jewelry box and take inventory!
Now is the time to take out all of your pieces and set up your 4 wearing categories. This process will help you decide what is important to have, what you love to wear, or pieces with sentimental value you want to pass down from generation to generation.
1. Wear daily or weekly
2. Wear for special occasions
3. Do not wear
4. A family piece
Bring back the Sparkle!
The items you wear daily, weekly, or for special occasions: are they clean and polished or in need of repair? Carreras offers free jewelry cleaning and inspection. This is the time to check the integrity of your pieces and bring back their sparkle.
Less is More
In efforts to assist you with cleaning out your jewelry box our Appraiser/Buyer would love to see the pieces you are not loving or not wearing.
Carreras specializes in period time pieces from the late 1800s and on. Bring in everything piece you want to sell, (even if you think it’s fake),as you never know what you might have!
Give yourself 45 minutes to visit our buying office, we take our time with each customer. We offer to purchase your items for a cash offer or as a trade offer ( trade in offers receive 25% more than cash offers) to use towards a new Carreras purchase.
Less clutter in your jewelry box and more for you!
This leads us to the most creative option: how can we re-design the pieces you do not wear or family pieces to pass down to the next generation? Our custom designs will bring back to life to your previously loved piece!
A few ideas:
Let us remove stones from a ring and set it into a new pendant.
Do you prefer a different metal or mounting? By resetting any family gemstones into a more modern mounting and metal you have a new piece with your very own flare!
Marrying the look of two pieces into one new stunner for your hand….. yes!
The ideas are endless and it all starts with some light cleaning.
Carreras “Hoops” Madness
We are feeling the excitement of March basketball madness! This is your chance to win Carreras!
Tell us your NCAA winning team and combined score and be entered to win these Charles Garnier Paris “Aurora” Hoop earrings.
by Charles Garnier
*Name your winner in comments section on our Facebook page by 10:00am, March 17th*
*Winner of Charles Garnier hoops will be announced April 7, 2015. Entries must be received by 10:00am March 17th. If multiple winners, entry will be randomly selected.
St. Patrick’s Day – Show us your Green!
Are you feeling lucky?
Beginning March 16th-21st dress in your best St. Patrick’s Day garb and you have three ways to win!
1. Email us your photo
(info@carrerasjewelers.com) or post to our Facebook page pictures of you, your baby, or your pets dressed in their best green.
2. Come into Carreras Jewelers and show us your green!
3. While in-store and in green purchase any in stock Carreras item.
One winner will be randomly selected to win
Rembrandt Shamrock Charm & Carreras Jewelry cleaner
*Winner Notified on Monday, March 23rd
Silver Restoration Event
Join us March 4th & 5th,10-5pm for our spring Silver Restoration Event. Bron-Shoe silver expert will provide free recommendations & estimates on bringing new life back to your old sterling and silverplated heirlooms. Missing parts replaced. Broken pieces repaired. Sterling silver polished. *No appointment necessary
February Birthstone: Amethyst
Happy Birthday to our February babies! Your birthstone, Amethyst, is extravagance in violet. Amethyst is a meditative and calming stone which works in the emotional, spiritual, and physical planes to provide calm, balance, patience, and peace.
Amethyst is a violet variety of quartz, which for thousands of years, the most striking representative of the quartz family has been the jewel coveted by princes. Amethyst occurs in primary hues from a light pinkish violet to a deep purple. Amethyst may exhibit one or both secondary hues, red and blue. The best varieties of Amethysts can be found in Siberia, Sri Lanka, Brazil and the far East. The ideal grade is called “Deep Siberian” and has a primary purple hue of around 75–80%, with 15–20% blue and (depending on the light source) red secondary hues.
Some Amethysts pale almost to colourlessness in daylight. The reason for this has not yet been discovered, but it is possible to re-colour them by means of radium radiation. The fact that these stones can lose their colour makes it obvious that amethyst jewelry should not be worn while sunbathing, in a solarium or in a discotheque with black light. Sudden changes of temperature can also be harmful to the stone.
to dry out they may discolor, or even crack. The good news is that caring for and storing your pearls really isn’t that complicated.” Brown Safe offers Do’s & Don’ts for 
