All gemstones are gifts of nature. But what about when certain gems glint or glow with subtle hues that defy description? Different light conditions can turn a dazzling gem into a phenomenal one.
Today, Catalyst Jewelry will share with you courtesy of GIA, the science behind your favorite Phenomenal-Gems . Bookmark and share!
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When you think of a growing small business, what words come to mind?
Growth. Expansion. Re-investing profits. Charity?
Charity, as in giving money away? Yes, that’s what we do. We donate money to organizations that do good works. It seems a little backwards as far as business models go.
If you’ve been a patron of Catalyst Jewelry, then you’re in the know about how we give ten percent of all total sales, whether online or in person towards non-profit organizations that are fighting and combating injustice. When we hear stories in the news about people with no voice being mistreated in very profound and life altering ways, it just burns us to the core and catalyzes us to reignite hope and confirms that the work we are doing in helping fund these organizations is worth it. Annually, we hold jewelry parties that benefit a particular organization.
And that’s what makes us different. Not only are we looking out for our customers, but we have a world-view that seeks to make the wrong things right.
This Pasadena Star News article from last year highlights what our heart is and the issues close to it.
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The point of first contact. Maybe you’re nervous. Maybe you’re sweating profusely. Maybe you stammer and can’t articulate your thoughts clearly and are stumbling over your words. You think that you’re blowing it, but she finds it endearing. Your heart is beating and rushing at a million miles an hour and you find yourself hanging on their every word.
The rush and wave of emotions that comes over you is refreshing like waves breaking on the shoreline. At the same time it’s a flood of emotions that moves as swift as flood waters that have overflowed the river banks. Those waters cannot be contained.
She is constantly in your thoughts when they aren’t present. You send out texts throughout the day to let them know that you’re thinking about them while you do your boring day job that you wish someone else would do so you could be with them.
Maybe you rarely use your phone to actually call people, but for him you make an exception because you want to hear the sound of his voice because it makes you feel like he’s near to you.
Maybe you despise cooking for yourself and ‘dinner’ consists of a bowl of cereal. It used to be the breakfast, lunch, and dinner of your slacker-self during your college years and you’ve taken to throwing-it-back to your college years by eating cereal because you don’t have the energy or will power to actually prepare a decent meal for yourself. But for her, you’re willing to invite her over so you can cook for her. Never mind that you’re scrambling and panicking to learn a simple enough recipe that you won’t screw up, but something that will still be appetizing enough to show that you’re sophisticated and to hide the fact that maybe your diet and eating habits are atrocious.
Perhaps you really hate watching television. You pride yourself on not even having a TV and you save lots of money on not having cable, a DVD player, or the actual TV. But she really wants to watch the Bachelor with you. So you go over to her place and you endure the agony of watching all those women throwing themselves at one guy. She’s in tears and you are too, but for very different reasons. You can’t believe you just sat through the Bachelor and wasted precious hours of your life that you will never get back, but you were with her and that’s all that mattered to you. You were close to her and who doesn’t like cuddling?
New relationships are exciting and the way they progress and move along is part of the thrill of the unknown. Making new discoveries about your new significant other is a rush. The answer to a question could be the difference between agreeing on favorite foods or leading to a discussion as to why Batman is just a rich casanova with gadgets and money and why he isn’t really a true superhero because he doesn’t have special powers.
The little things they do, you begin to find endearing. Normal people who are not growing more in love with each other would find those same things to be annoying or gross. But not so with you, their annoying laugh is not annoying to you at all.
But hey, who cares what others think? You’re in love and that’s all that matters. Getting lost in their eyes is more like being found and making a great discovery that would rival Columbus’ discovery of the ‘New World’.
Catalyst Jewelry offers a FREE engagement ring consultation!
Free, yes… FREE!
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Earlier this week on Monday, the nation’s largest cupcake chain announced that they were going to close down all 65 stores at the end of the business day. Sweet tooth’s and foodies all wept and mourned at the news of the cupcake giant’s fall from grace in the cupcake craze.
Read more from Entrepreneur here.
That was almost four days ago. According to the New York Times, Crumbs Bake Shop has reported to be close to securing a new group of investors. Read the full article for more details!
Running a business is full of excitement and drama!
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If we recall, the Boko Haram group in Nigeria that took a large group of school girls captive that set the worldwide outrage demanding for Boko Haram to release the girls. Since then, the 63 girls have escaped and are free to practice their original faith prior to the forced conversion.
Now the group is really showing their true colors ordering people out of church buildings and just shooting them in cold blood upon exiting the church.
They roll in armored military transports with military grade weapons murdering civilians.
Those who resist the regime’s efforts to convert to Islam are simply met with bullets as they are shot dead in public.
Read more from the LA Times here.
Issues like this are near to our hearts and what we seek to combat through our business. You’ll never have buyers remorse knowing that your money spent on your elegant purchase will go forth to a worthy cause that advocates for justice.
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Today is the official first day of summer and how convenient that it happens on a weekend?
Plenty of people will flock to the beaches this weekend as the ‘Inaugural’ event to the beginning of summer. The beach is a place of relaxation, rejuvenation, and even romance.
Whether you want to booze it up, take pictures of rock formations, or get a bonfire going, we’ve got you covered on LA’s best beaches to match your mood.
Great times with family, friends, and loved ones I can think of very few people who don’t like the beach.
Who knows? Maybe you decide you want to propose at the beach on a romantic walk along the shore at sunset. GO FOR IT! Just make sure you contact us so we can be your personal jeweler and set you up with a FREE one-on-one consultation and save you a lot of money!
Read more from LA Weekly.
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Clayton Kershaw, the Los Angeles Dodgers star starting pitcher once again put on a show at Chavez Ravine on Wednesday night the 18th of June 2014.
He threw his first career no hitter in a glorious fashion. The only thing that stood between that no-hitter was a throwing error from SS Hanley Ramirez that allowed a batter to reach 1B, no run charged to Kershaw.
Leave it to a mediocre shortstop to put a blemish on what could have been a once-in-a-lifetime feat!
Never the less, Kershaw put the Colorado Rockies away in just under 3 hours of play with a mere 107 pitches with a career high and league record 15 strikeouts for a no-hitter.
This guy is the best pitcher in the world and he’s still getting better. Just a few years ago Kershaw had a fastball and a nasty curveball in his arsenal and that was it. It was was enough to give him 2 Cy Young awards.
Let’s not forget that Kershaw did this within less than a month’s span of Josh Beckett’s first no-hitter in Philadelphia earlier this season.
What a shame that over 70% of the LA market can’t watch Dodger games due to the Time Warner Cable and Direct TV war that wages on
read more from the LAist here.
read about how few people were able to tune in to watch Kershaw’s no-hitter
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We’re back from JCK 2014 in Las Vegas! What an amazing weekend we had from meeting new vendors, seeing lots of shiny things, to networking and collecting swag. We made a lot of contacts and are super excited with the prospect of establishing new partnerships for the future of Catalyst Jewelry. Our feet were sore, our bellies full, and our hearts are more inspired!
We’re super excited about the future of Catalyst Jewelry and you should be, too!
Check out our Instagram page for the preview photo. All the gentlemen should get super excited! BUILD THE HYPE!
It’s our goal to serve and meet your jewelry needs, including all the MEN out there! No longer will you feel left out and awkward at our jewelry events. In the near future we will be serving you up with high quality pieces that you just won’t find at department stores without the retail!
As a man, I really dislike going to department stores. Traffic, parking, and even just being there is uncomfortable. It makes me want to find what I’m looking for as fast as I can and leave while spending as little time there. Shop online with us from the comfort of your living room sofa or home office desk sipping on your favorite brew of choice without even leaving home to battle in parking lots! Did I mention no retail prices? I think I did. NO RETAIL PRICES!
GUYS! Get excited!
For our female readership, get excited! Now you can shop for yourself AND him!
Women are catalysts, and so are men!
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will it be you?
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“LA has a river?”
If by ‘river’, you mean that mostly dry concrete channel that meanders around Los Angeles, then yes, LA has a river. While this barren image of the LA river comes to mind, there are other parts of it that are in a much more natural state, bearing no resemblance to the depressing sight of that dried concrete and unsightly channel.
Adventure is out there! At Catalyst Jewelry we love and appreciate the outdoors for all the fun it provides and the joy of being outside.
The Elysian River recreational zone and the Sepulveda River recreational zone will be open through Labor Day from sunrise to sunset for kayaking and fishing. Motor boats are strictly prohibited and no permits are required.
For more information, see the LAist.
What you may not know is that just yesterday, the Army corps recommended an ambitious $1 Billion proposal to revitalize all 51 miles of the LA river, starting with an 11-mile stretch. Read more about that at the LA TIMES.
At Catalyst Jewelry, we deliver you high quality products and your purchases fuels purpose. It’s comforting to know that it isn’t just Catalyst Jewelry where you can shop for a cause. Golden Road Brewing in Los Angeles in the spring time serves up a special beer in their custom IPA series called 2020 IPA .
Mayor Eric Garcetti holding 4-pack of special release 2020IPA.
Image courtesy of Golden Road Brewing’s facebook
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This story broke Wednesday evening May 21st, 2014 exclusively on ABC7 11pm news.
A Bell Gardens man, Isidro Garcia, 41, kidnapped a then 15 year old teen in August of 2004 when while he lived with her mother in Santa Ana. The girl, now a woman was even forced to marry her abductor and was subject to verbal, physical, and sexual abuse. She even had a daughter with her captor. Surrounding residents in the apartment complex that they lived in had no idea of the reality of the situation. Some residents were even invited over to celebrate their child’s birthday on various occasions. Neighbors assumed everything was great.
The woman was fear-mongered into laying mum about being captive, as Isidro said that if she tried to escape or notify police that her mother and sister would be deported. Ironically the apartment in Bell Gardens where she was living was just down the street from the local police station. She had plenty of opportunities to flee her situation, but only recently worked up the courage to walk out of her captor’s Bell Gardens apartment and enter the police station to report domestic violence in broad daylight.
Read the full story here.
Catalyst Jewelry has partnered with Justice Speaks, a local non-profit organization based in Los Angeles that is committed to seeing human trafficking and all linked facets of sex trafficking abolished. “Like” them on Facebook.
We believe that prayer changes things and causes things to happen.
Just as we’ve partnered with this organization, won’t you partner with us?
Who knew that buying fashion jewelry could combat human trafficking?
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