Valentines Day!

Its that time of year again! Love it or hate it, there is something to be said for letting someone know you care, so give a little love with some beautiful, handmade jewellery. Here are our suggestions:

just a taster of some Valentines specials available in store or online today. Have a little look at the website for more.

Also this year we a proud to announce that if you book a Valentines table at the very highly reccomended Blue Bell in Farnham there will be a goody bag from us worth at least £35 to make your evening even more special, as well as one lucky table winning one of our limited edition valentines bracelets.

...but you'll have to be quick as I know the tables are booking up quickly.

the BigRingThing at Epsom

All these rings, and more, in our massive ring clearance, only at our Epsom store NOW!
http://www.zigzagjewels.com/Contact-Us.aspx

The Birthstone Feature - September Sapphires

For all those with a September birthday lucky you! Pretty Blue Sapphire is your birthstone.

Here is the science bit; Sapphire is a variety of the mineral Corundum and is an aluminium oxide. Sapphires range in colour from pale blue to a deep indigo, the intensity of the colour depends on the amount of titanium and iron within the crystal.

Sapphire also forms in a range of other colours, including colourless, pink, orange, green, yellow, violet and brown, these are called ‘fancy sapphires’. The different colour forms are due to some impurities within the mineral. Sapphire, having a hardness of 9 on the Moh's scale, is a very durable gemstone for jewellery.

Sapphires are mainly mined in Australia, particularly New South Wales and Queensland, occurring in alluvial deposits. The most desirable cornflower blue sapphires are found in Kashmir, in India. Sapphires are also found in Sri Lanka, Thailand, China, Tanzania and Kenya.

According to legend, Sapphires were said to protect against snakes - if a Sapphire was placed in a jar with serpents, they would die at once. During the Middle Ages, priests wore sapphires as protection from impure thoughts and warriors gave their young wives sapphire necklaces to ensure fidelity. In the 13th Century, the French thought that sapphire transformed stupidity to wisdom and irritability to good temper.

One of the most well known sapphires is in the Imperial State Crown, worn by Queen Victoria in 1838, and is now housed in the Tower of London. The gem is called the St Edward’s Sapphire, as it belonged to Edward the Confessor, who wore the stone in a ring during his coronation in 1042.

SPECIAL OFFER OF SEPTEMBER SAPPHIRES

If you want one for yourself or know someone with a birthday head down to one of our shops. We currently have a very limited number of these Sapphire pendants from £25 (that’s upto 50% off) They are a really nice casual way to wear real Sapphire, and look just as lovely with jeans as they do with a dress in the evening.

Win New Jewels

We would really like to hear from you, get some feedback on new ideas, jewellery, our pictures, and find out from you what you want to see. So...every day his week we will be giving away a piece of jewellery from our brand new selection (before it hits our shops) for our favorite comment.

Just click on 'comments' below any picture and drop us a line.

Trips, Promotions and Generally Very Exciting Things..

We are very excited to be off on a buying trip to India in less than a week so you might like to see what promotions and special things we have in the shops whilst we are away.

In Barnes its Sale time and we have some lovely bargains there for you if you are heading that way.
We have some very beautiful things for summer in our other showrooms too. We have offers on our Charm Candy, which is happily compatible with most of the other brands including Troll and Pandora. These sets of three coordinating charms are just £25 (individually £45) so pop in and snap one up.


If you are heading off on holiday or seeking out some sunshine at home the heart charm necklaces are an ideal way of taking a bit of summer fun with you. In your choice of cord colours and glass beads you really can match up with anything and they make lovely pretty presents too. Take a look, I am sure you’ll love them.

Or if a simple silver ‘wear me everywhere’ pendant is what you are after pick up one of these pretty treats, reduced from £45 to £25
...and take it on holiday with you!

That should keep you in jewels whilst we are away but if there is something specific you would really like to see us do please comment with any suggestions of jewellery you would like us to look out for and any requests you have. We welcome ideas on colours you want to see, and jewellery you have in mind but just can’t seem to find-we will try our best to source it for you. So comment and let us know what you like and what you don’t and we will see if we can make our jewellery even better for you.

And keep checking back as we will be uploading pictures while we are away.