Friday, October 17, 2008

Welcome to our Newest Designer, Pandora

FREE PANDORA Bracelet Giveaway and Trunk Show October 29th and 30th
You asked for this exciting new designer and now PANDORA is here!

Come into the store on Wednesday and Thursday and choose from our large selection of PANDORA Jewelry`s charms, necklaces, earrings, and bracelets and meet our local sales representative from PANDORA Jewelry.

Receive a FREE Bracelet with your $100 purchase -- a sterling silver PANDORA clip bracelet -- during these two days.
And, register to win a $100 in-store gift certificate.

Call us at 219.462.5931 for more information.
Trunk Show hours are 9:30 to 6 p.m.



Design your own PANDORA bracelet online; we have the charms in stock.

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Our Preferred Sales Event Starts Monday!

Monday is the first day of our Preferred Customer Sales Event featuring door prizes, and terrific saving on selected jewelry and timepieces.
This unadvertised special event is for our preferred customers only, October 13th through October 25th. Come in early for best selection.

Images of Sierra Leone article quoting our owner Robert Flude

Images of Sierra Leone Volume 17-Issue 3-Summer 2008
Story and photos by Ric Taylor, a diamond dealer and friend of Martin Binder Jeweler who also recently travelled to Sierra Leone. Read the complete published article here.

"Conflict diamonds came to the attention of the jewelry industry in 1999 when rebels overran the capital of Sierra Leone and the stories of the atrocities they committed became known to the rest of the world. The stories of civilians with hands and legs amputated sparked the issue and prompted the Kimberley Process, a system created to stop the illegal smuggling of rough diamonds and deter the funding of weapons for the wars in Sierra Leone and Angola.

Although the situation in Sierra Leone is so difficult for its people, I did see relief organizations trying to help. There's a great need for better food, water and medical supplies, but I didn't see much evidence of improvement while I was there.

I do know that there are some individuals in the gem and jewelry industry who are trying to make a difference. Bob Flude, of Martin Binder Jewelers, in Valparaiso, Indiana, for example, is running a mining operation near Koidu. He pays his workers $3 a day and provides food and medical attention.
Flude said he originally went to Sierra Leone to establish his own supply of diamonds, but quickly became sympathetic to his workers' conditions. "An extra dollar a day doesn't cost me a lot more, but it does improve the lives of the miners," he said. "There is a great need."

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Upcoming Buying Trip

In our ever challenging quest to bring you the best prices on diamonds and diamond jewelry, our co-owner Robert Flude, is heading off to Mumbai india, where he will meet with diamond sightholders large diamond merchants Robert is making his third trip to India this year, where he will sort through and hand pick the best diamonds for exciting diamond values this holiday season.
If you have a special diamond in mind, contact Robert and he will help find your perfect diamond.

Also Robert just got back from his last trip to Asia, where he found some of the last Burmese rubies before the United States is prohibited from importing them. Also look for our selection of value priced diamond jewelry from one of our new Thailand companies, coming soon.