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Featured in the Dallas Voyage

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Featured in the Dallas Voyage

Blessed to be featured at the Dallas Voyage: "Today we’d like to introduce you to Benazir Arfi. Thanks for sharing your story with us Benazir. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.In my early years, I was a budding, creative designer of clothing and a sketch artist. I went to school to study business. After a long hiatus from my design creations and raising two teenage boys, I decided to get back to my creative roots. I went to trade school to be certified with the GIA at Carlsbad CA and Benazir Collection was...

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Benefiting CASA and the Gatehouse of Grapevine

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Benefiting CASA and the Gatehouse of Grapevine

Benazir Collection was happy to be part of ' New Year~New You', a Glamorous Moms Night Out that benefited CASA and the Gatehouse of Grapevine. It was held on January 18 at Piazza in the Village in Colleyville. CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) of Tarrant County is an organization of volunteer advocates who stand up on behalf of abused and neglected children.  Gatehouse of Grapevine is an initiative of the 501(c)(3) projectHandUp, whose mission is to offer women a practical hand up with life’s challenges. Benazir Collection was happy to donate a pair of beautiful sliced Sapphire and Diamond earrings for this...

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Feature on Benazir Collection

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Feature on Benazir Collection

Benazir Collection in the Colleyville Charm:    

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Why Sliced gemstones

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Why Sliced gemstones

As a jewelry designer, I have really enjoyed using sliced gemstones ranging from sliced Sapphires, Aquamarine, Tanzanite, Opals and Emeralds. I feel it gives me a lot of flexibility.It gives me a free form palette to work with. The organic color and free form stone slices are great because they have a low production cost. It works well for both the designer as well as their customers.As a customer. it enables one to have a large gemstone that is still precious at a fraction of the cost of gem-quality stones of the same material. Click Here   I used sliced...

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Labradorite and Labradorescene

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Labradorite and Labradorescene

For a layman like me, before my training with GIA, a Labradorite would be an interesting stone, a little hard to describe.  I would probably describe it as a bluish grey stone with a rainbow effect on it.  Generally speaking a Labradorite usually shows a single, bright color that flashes accross a broad area of the stone and then seems to dissapear as the gemstone is moved. This dissapearence of broad flash of color in the Labradorite is called Labroderescene. It is highly uncommon to see vast productions of jewelry in this gemstone. However, Labradorite seems to be very popular...

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