Certified Diamonds

I’m a great fan of Amazon.com and I am often amazed at the things they have for sale. Things like certified diamonds. Now I don’t spend much time at jewelers and I never even bought a diamond wedding ring, but I do like the look a of nice diamond. There are a lot of ads on TV telling me to buy certified diamonds, though I am not all that sure what a certified diamond. Seems there are a few different people who do this certified diamonds thing-EGL certified diamond and GIA certified diamonds being to two that I have heard…

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My Crater of Diamonds State Park Trip

Murfreesboro, ArkansasIt’s hot and humid and your clothes are plastered to your body with sweat. The park is busy for a Wednesday. Everywhere you look around the 36-acre plowed field there is someone bent over, shoveling the reddish brown dirt into five gallon buckets. There is a water park and a hiking trail and a restaurant. But you aren’t staggering with your own bucket toward a muddy trough filled with dark water to do things you can do anywhere. No, your here for the same reason as everyone else. You want a diamond. And make it a big one.Crater of…

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