“17 Jewelry Stories So Gross You Might Have to Hurl - INSTORE MAG” plus 3 more

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• 17 Jewelry Stories So Gross You Might Have to Hurl - INSTORE MAG
• JACKSON, CAROLINE - Richmond.com
• 12 Emerging Fashion Designers On The Block - Femina
• Proud to Be Part of the Pitt Family - UPJ Athletics

17 Jewelry Stories So Gross You Might Have to Hurl - INSTORE MAG Posted: 13 Jul 2020 08:12 PM PDT INSTORE HAS A tradition of collecting and sharing the funny and far-fetched experiences of its readers, who have always been generous with their tales. And despite the retail sector having faced unprecedented obstacles in the first half of 2020, or maybe because of that, we decided it's time for a laugh or an eye roll. We asked our Brain Squad and other sources for their best "gross-out" stories. Jewelry business owners and managers shared these unusual situations. A TRIPLE ICK RATING. I once had a local and longstanding customer (another small business owner in our area) come in for a repair. He's a commanding man of about 60, at the time. When I approached him, he told me that he needed our help soldering something that had broken, and then proceeded to pull his retainer right out of his mouth and put it into my hand! Ick. Ick. Ick. YOU HAVE TO DRAW THE LINE SOMEWHERE. A very nice young woman asked me if I would build her a necklace with her unusual item. I intimated that I would be glad to make her happy. When she produced a dried, shriveled umbilical cord from her son's birth the previous year, she said it would make the most beautiful necklace. We declined, as we draw the line at human flesh. Subsequently, the counters were cleaned to surgical standards. Advertisement ENOUGH SAID. I wish I could tell you about us gold plating a raccoon bone for a customer that was a veterinarian. This is a part of its anatomy that is his private parts. Cannot go there. DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE? Once a long, long time ago, a lady brought in a little jar of freeze-dried Walleye eyes. (For those not in Minnesota, the Walleye is our state fish and good eating!) Yes, eyes! She wanted two matched pairs made into earrings. So we picked out the "best ones" and put them in six-prong pearl type crown ear posts with epoxy. Customer is always right! But I have often wondered what would happen to those earrings if someone forgot to take them off in a nice hot shower! DECISIONS, DECISIONS. Asked by phone if we did custom bear claw pendants. We said certainly. Were completely grossed out when the customer arrived with an entire leg of a black bear, stating, "I didn't know which bear claw to choose." IT'S TIME TO COWBOY UP. A lady came in with her young son. The kid was dressed in a cowboy outfit. During the presentation of the jewelry, the kid looks down and spits on the carpet — you know, like a real cowboy. The saleswoman is rather shocked. The mother sees the spitting, looks back at the saleswoman and says, "Isn't that cute?" MEMO GOODS. One of our sales associates was showing a 3/4-carat diamond to a client in locking tweezers. She had put a bit too much pressure on the stone. As she was holding it up, the stone popped out of the tweezers and flew into the air. She was talking at the time and the diamond went right into her mouth and down her throat. She swallowed it. It took two days for her to "retrieve" it, but she did. No one wanted to touch the stone after that. Thankfully, the stone was on memorandum. We sent it back without telling anyone the story … was that wrong?? WARNING: THIS ONE IS REALLY BAD. The first time I witnessed the guys cut someone's rings off was horrifying. I was called to the back as very much a greenhorn. They were gonna cut off a customer's ring and wanted me to watch; I had told them I wanted to see all aspects of what they do. That being said, there I was at the counter making polite conversation with a lady in her mid 50s while the guys grabbed the tool off the rack. She told us that she was quite embarrassed and probably should have come in sooner, but she didn't want "the damn hospital to ruin her rings." That was apparently her next stop. She said she had managed to catch her hand in the door and it had swollen up. Now the part she didn't mention until she pulled her arm up to expose the rings was that it had happened a week prior. Her hand was definitely swollen, but her fingers were black and the smell was so bad that I vomited in the trash can. The guys clipped the rings, cringing and somehow smiling the whole time. The customer said it felt better, even though I suspect she couldn't feel anything at that point, and the swelling was not going down, neither was the color changing. I really hope she still has those fingers … FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE. One time we helped a customer who wanted to restore her deceased daughter's ring. She handed the ring to me and explained that she had had her daughter exhumed and the ring needed to be cleaned. So yes, the ring had been on her deceased daughter's finger buried in the ground, and she now has handed it to me, discolored and filled with some substance? We cleaned it and handed it back and she put it back on her finger. I was in shock and grossed out for the rest of the day. Advertisement WHAT KIND OF STONE DID YOU SAY THIS IS? I once had a client hand me a stone and ask if I could drill a hole in it and attach a bail or jump ring for her chain. The stone drilled easily and was soft. I remember as it was being drilled it had a terrible strange smell. After it was completed, my client came to pick it up. She was very happy. I asked where she found the stone. She told me it was a kidney stone she had removed. I can handle gross stuff, but this was a first for me. DO YOU THINK SHE'LL SAY YES? Drunk person came in and stood at the engagement ring case and urinated in his pants while he continued to ask to look at rings. WHERE'S THE TOE SIZER? Throwing their leg up on the counter to ask if we had toe rings. WHAT'S A LITTLE BLOOD AMONG FRIENDS? One of my very best Southern Belle customers came in and pulled off her 2-carat diamond earrings. One of my sales associates held her hand out as she asked, "Oh, what's the brown stuff on the back of your earrings?" and then in her slightly inebriated state, the customer replies, "Oh, I think that's blood." Upon those words, my associate completely whipped her hand up in the air, and as the giant diamond rocks go clattering across my showcase onto the floor, my customer raises her eyebrows and smirks, "Scared of a little dried blood are you darling?" BEYOND REPAIR. My dad once opened up a watch back and it had a bunch of very small "things" moving around in it. He promptly closed it up, handed back to the customer with "nothing we can do for it," and walked away to wash his hands. LET ME OUT! Our jeweler found a live bug living underneath a ring inside a bezel setting. HOT MESS. My wife took in a watch for cleaning the band. She inquired how it got all sticky. The gentleman farmer said he was in the process of inseminating his cows, lost it inside and had to go back in for it. I'M SCREAMING INSIDE. It involved a client dropping a really nasty looking watch in my hand and then proceeding to tell me they had exhumed her mother to further examine her remains. Five months had gone by. If I recall correctly, it was some life insurance issue. Apparently digging up mom to justify a life insurance payout was an appropriate thing. In the meantime, I'm cupping this base-metal entry-level timepiece in my hand while totally deadpanning my internal but deafening screams.

JACKSON, CAROLINE - Richmond.com Posted: 13 Oct 2019 12:00 AM PDT JACKSON, Dr. Caroline "Calley" Goode, passed away peacefully just a few days before her 94th birthday. Born on August 15, 1925, in Dinwiddie Court House, Va., she was the youngest daughter of State Senator Morton Graham Goode and Lucy Homes Goode. Caroline Goode dreamed of becoming a doctor and finding a cure for her father's migraines. She attended Westhampton College of the University of Richmond where she majored in Biology with a minor in Psychology. During her four years at Westhampton, she played varsity basketball, field hockey and tennis. "If you played three sports, you were given a blazer," she would say, "I was very proud of that." For her senior year, she was elected student government president. Calley graduated in 1946 and in spite of having completed an application for medical school, she chose to begin her career instead. She accepted a position as Assistant in Biology at the Medical College of Virginia School of Pharmacy. Within two years, she became an instructor. After various promotions and an additional graduate education, Calley became a tenured professor at MCV in 1971. She was appointed Instructor in Anatomy in 1972 and received her Ph.D. in Anatomy from MCV in 1973. She was promoted to Assistant Professor of Anatomy in 1976 and then Associate Professor in 1990. She retired in 1996, but continued teaching part-time until July 2009. She was 83 when she gave her last lecture. Although she never found a cure for migraines during her six decades as a medical educator, she taught and inspired thousands of young medical students (receiving numerous awards for teaching excellence) and hoped that one day one of them would find a cure. Calley spent much of her free time in her 90s working in her famously beautiful garden, exercising, mending fences, creating brick walkways, making jewelry and whittling wonderful creations in her woodworking shop. She produced hundreds of handmade ornaments each year for friends and family which will be a sorely missed holiday tradition for all the recipients. She also enjoyed the symphony, the opera, the Outer Banks, traveling and desserts in general. She is survived by her sister, Sarah Goode Gregory of Roanoke, Va.; her four children, Greer Palmer Jackson Jr. (Kathy) of Richmond, Va., Nancy Jackson Lee (Lauris) of Cary, N.C., Morton Goode Jackson (Celia Stokes) of Berkeley, Calif. and Caroline "Kitty" Edwards (Terry) of Montpelier, Va.; her nine grandchildren, Mary Nell Almon Jackson of Richmond, Va., Anne Waring Jackson Johnson (Jay) of Lexington, Va., Claire Caitlin Jackson Elingburg (Greg) of Midlothian, Va., Lauris Jon Lee Jr. (Rene) of Helena, Ala., Elizabeth Greer Lee McNab (Adam) of Cumming, Ga., Matthew Kinlaw Lee (Julia) of Virginia Beach, Va., Jonah M. Jackson (Leticia) of Charlottesville, Va., Graham Jackson of Fairfax, Va. and Christopher Marshall Thurgood of Richmond, Va.; nine great-grandchildren, Jack and Emma Johnson, Miles Elingburg, Ian and Addison Lee, Jackson and Carter McNab, Henry and Lola Lee; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. Over her last few days, she was surrounded by her family and visited by many of her cherished friends who came to squeeze her hand and share their special memories of having Calley in their lives. She died peacefully on August 7, 2019. The family would like to thank the staff at Sunrise of Richmond, Parham Road, especially Ronshanda Bowman and Kayrin Archer for their wonderful care. Thanks also go to Mary Cantwell from Hospice Community Care for her many kindnesses. Friends and family are invited to gather in celebration of Calley's life on Saturday, October 19, at the Virginia House, 4301 Sulgrave Rd., Richmond, Va. 23221, from 2 to 4 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the charity of your choice. View online memorial

12 Emerging Fashion Designers On The Block - Femina Posted: 20 Jul 2020 03:59 AM PDT We have been in our homes for months now, in a truly unprecedented situation. Something as simple as visiting stores at the mall and going through racks of clothes seems like a thing of the past now. This is the perfect time to rethink our fashion choices by being mindful and open to younger fashion labels that are not only upping their creativity factor but are also practicing ethical fashion.  Here is our selection of the new wave of fashion talent in the Indian industry. AKHL by Akhil Nagpal A Central Saint Martins graduate, Akhil Nagpal, after working with designers like Peter Piloto and Amit Aggarwal, presented his collection at the 2019 GenNext Lakme Fashion Week. The textiles Nagpal makes for his collections are usually upcycled ocean waste materials like fishnets with the use of industrial glass and metallic foliage for creating architectural forms. Image: Instagram Ura Maku Ura Maku, which means 'flying shuttle' in weaving, offers modern and timeless silhouettes. Making the cut to Lakme Fashion Week, Winter/Festive 2019's GenNext category, the label featured fabrics such as tea dyed mulberry Eri and Muga silk, as well as organic cotton and Chanderi. Image: Instagram CAI  Launched in 2015, CAI brings to us vegan footwear. The label is PETA-approved and offers a variety of comfortable and fun designs to choose from. Image: Instagram The Summer House The Summer House is a brand to keep on the radar for its minimalistic aesthetic that makes a smart choice for everyday wear.   Image: Instagram The Episode Ever heard of handcrafted 3D shoes? Well, The Episode is one such brand that brings all shoe fantasies to life. Each pair has a different design aesthetic and features intricate detailing with embellishments such as pearls, beads, and handmade fabric flowers. Image: Instagram Trisara by Tarushree and Sheeba Tarushree Arora and Sheeba Dhawan are the brains behind unconventional designs that the label offers. From marble print jumpsuits to neon organza jackets, the brand blurs the lines between inventive and chic. Image: PR Beau Monde Designer Kanika Chawla's label comprises a collection of signature bags. Bespoke craftsmanship and the use of finest natural materials is what makes us add the brand to our edit.  Image: Instagram Graine  Co-founded by twins, Mannat Sethi and Harshna Khandari, Graine is already creating a buzz. It won the Helsinki Fashion week and made heads turn during their debut show in 2019 at Lakme Fashion week. Their collection named Kaju Katli, after the popular Indian sweet, saw the use of re-purposed rubber tyres that were meticulously cut and embroidered by zari artisans. Image: Instagram Anatomy by Gaurav Creative thinker Gaurav Singh's designs are an amalgamation of modern femininity, architectural curves, and edgy organic forms. Creating contemporary pieces, his label boasts of some of the best garment construction among the young ones in the business.  Image: Instagram Poochki Designer duo Ishanee and Anirudh have given block printing a more modern perspective through their collections while working with artisans in Pilkhwa, Uttar Pradesh. Creating comfort clothing which is suitable for all body types, this one deserves to be bookmarked. Image: Instagram Eurrume Pronounced as yaw-rum, the jewellery brand by designer Eshita Puri comes forward with modern-day designs to be paired with various outfit styles. One can find subtle yet striking pieces which have an elegant feel.  Image: Instagram  Greytone Aditi Sharma's love for buildings and concrete turned her full-time interior designer career into a creative business venture which offers jewelry inspired from architecture. She uses concrete with a hint of brass and stainless steel, something so fresh and new yet strikingly bold.  Image: Instagram  Also read: #VocalForLocal: 10 Homegrown Labels That You Can Shop From

Proud to Be Part of the Pitt Family - UPJ Athletics Posted: 20 Jul 2020 09:12 AM PDT Kimberly Diamond's love of Pitt started during her senior year of high school, when she performed with the Pitt Band on senior day. "It was an amazing day working with the Golden Girls, learning several of their common drills and performing with them during their time on the field. As a dancer and twirler for most of my life, the opportunity to perform with the best at Pitt was a once in a lifetime experience." She didn't start her studies at Pitt, though. Diamond, now a clinical research coordinator of pediatric neurosurgery at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, began her post-secondary education in science and nursing at two local colleges. But her best friend was enrolled at Pitt and frequently invited Diamond to the Pittsburgh campus for sporting events and social activities. Diamond said she "always liked that the Oakland campus was full of extreme pride and school spirit that was poured out by not only students but anyone who had a love for this great institution." So, when it was time for her to start her career, she knew that she wanted to work at Pitt.  In 1995, she landed a job working for a group of world-renowned ENT surgeons at the Eye and Ear Institute, which was part of UPMC. Working for this great group and learning the importance of education in this field, Diamond decided to continue her education part-time and applied to Pitt's College of General Studies (CGS) in 1997. With a background in science including several nursing and anatomy courses, Diamond worked with her advisor Tim Carr to design her own major through the Natural Sciences program at CGS. "While I was working and attending classes, some doors opened up for me and I was able to advance my career by joining an extremely exciting team in the world of plastic surgery," Diamond said. "With this new position, I also had the wonderful opportunity to join Pitt as a staff member—and boy was I proud of that. I mean, wow, to work for this great institution that I was already expanding my education through was such an honor." She used Pitt's educational benefits to continue her education. "I was floored to find out that working for Pitt enabled you to take classes to become anything that I wanted. It was so exciting, because I knew this would give me so many opportunities that I otherwise never would have been able to have or dreamed of." Several years later, in 2004, Diamond donned her graduation regalia and received the first of her bachelor's degrees, a BS in natural science, at the then-new Petersen Events Center. Eager to see what she could do with her new degree, she took a position in the Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Clinical Research, where she became involved in the development of the University's Clinical and Translational Science Institute's National Institutes of Health grant. "I gained an enormous amount of knowledge about the research world and how science transformed from a lab to becoming a treatment for patients," Diamond said. 'Part of the Pitt family' But she also sensed more knowledge and more education would be useful. Soon, Diamond completed a second bachelor's degree, this time a BA in health service, and a certificate in managing health service programs and projects in 2009, but she wasn't done yet. She attended many of the educational seminars that Pitt had sponsored to keep herself current on the ever-changing world of science, medicine and research, including the "Mini Medical School" Series, Ask the IRB sessions and the Senior Vice Chancellors Seminar Series. After working in research for almost 10 and gaining knowledge and experience she felt it was time to either learn something new or expand on the knowledge that she already had. So, she then in 2018 applied to the Health Care Compliance (HCC) online program through Pitt's School of Law, which she completed in 2019. While in her last semester of the HCC program, she decided to enroll in the Master of Law program, where she expects to complete her studies and graduate in spring 2021 with her MSL in health law and biomedical and health services research. While studying and working at Pitt, Diamond has been part of the Safety and Security Committee, the Staff Council and was elected staff consultant to the Board of Trustees for a one-year term. A previous Pitt football season ticket holder, donor to Pitt's Scholarship Fund and a lifetime member of the Pitt Alumni Association, she strives to remain involved in many other campus activities and programs and promotes and supports Pitt as much as she can. "I have always been proud to be part of the Pitt family," said Diamond, who wears so much Pitt gear—including jewelry and attire—that her family and friends thinks it's all she owns. "Kim takes her Pitt pride seriously," said Darla Justus, administrator of community health choices and Medicaid compliance and Diamond's classmate in the MSL program. "She has a Pitt laptop, she wears a Pitt watch all the time, and she wears her Pitt gear daily during the workday and during class. She could be a Pitt advertisement!" Diamond said she hopes to continue her career in the institution that has been her home for the last 20 years.

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