Shop owners are members of the Jewelry Ring, an online group that discusses and studies vintage jewelry and vintage costume jewelry. We wanted a place where we could have quick access to some important information that has been discussed, so we came up with a blog.

The shops featured in our Mall offer an excellent variety of vintage and vintage costume jewelry from Victorian to Glitz.

You will find Art Deco, Miriam Haskell, Mexican Silver, Native American, Eisenberg, Trifari, Coro, Weiss, Florenza, Juliana, Bakelite, etc., and much more.

We will be adding interesting information as it comes up to help with the learning of costume vintage jewely.

If you're looking for pictures, you'll need to click on the many links given for a specific topic! We're trying to keep this informative and clear looking!

It seems like the trend this spring for luxury watch brands is to focus on paying homage to watch parts. Back in March we reported that Rama Swiss Watch (RSS) released 25 limited edition watches which pay homage to the tourbillon. Now Fossil has released a line of watches that feature and pay homage to the chronograph.

This watch is one of our favorites among the collection, the Fossil FS4446 Sport Chronograph which has a black oversized dial, 3 sub dials, black case and bracelet and a low cost

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On New Year’s Eve, my wife went grocery shopping and came home with steaks for dinner.

Steaks are always welcome, but they were raw at that point, so I asked how she was going to cook them.

“Either boiled or fried” was the response.

Boiled? Ugh. No thanks. I’m sure it would make the meat safe to eat, but that’s just not right. Save the boiling for hot dogs. Although . . . I usually just microwave those.

Fried? Maybe, but a steak deserves better than that

Reverse engineering with okteta

In the last week I was hacking on OpenBSC to make GSM 12.21 Software Load usable for the ip.access nanoBTS. The difficulta was not within GSM 12.21 as Harald had it implemented for the Siemens BS11 BTS. The difficulty was that some messages need to contain paramaters and these come directly from the firmware file which ultimately means that one needs to understand the firmware file format to extract these. okteta came to rescue me and it was extremely good at doing this.

Okteta has not only the hex view one expects but also some useful utilities. Selecting a couple of bytes and the "Decoding Table" can tell you the different values in different endinanesses. So whenever I thought this is a file length, I would look into the "Decoding table", select bytes and see how many I selected and if it could make sense, it can calculate various checksums over a selection.

Thanks a lot for Okteta, it safed my day!

Happy New Year

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. ~Bill Vaughn


An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~Bill Vaughan


Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. ~Author Unknown


A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. ~Author Unknown


Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. ~Benjamin Franklin


No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam. ~Charles Lamb


New Year's Day is every man's birthday. ~Charles Lamb


Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty. ~John Selden


Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. ~Hal Borland


The merry year is born
Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
~Hartley Coleridge


New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. ~Hamilton Wright Mabie


The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months! ~Edward Payson Powell


Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ~Oprah Winfrey


Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850


The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to. ~P.J. O'Rourke


Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past. ~Henry Ward Beecher


New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. ~Mark Twain


The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. ~George William Curtis


For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
~T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"


We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce


Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever. ~Mark Twain

SOME INTERESTING FACTS

Did You Know ???

21. The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

22. When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.

23. When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.

24. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.

25. The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.

26. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.

27. Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.

28. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.

29. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.

30. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

Wow...That Was Interesting As Well !!!