MiaDonna® discussing engagement season on the radio

It’s Engagement Season. Are you ready?

MiaDonna® CEO Anna-Mieke Anderson recently visited our lovely friend and customer Nicolle Camarata during one of her segments on Portland’s 97.1 CharlieFM. During the segment Anna-Mieke and Nicolle covered some trends  and things to look for if your planning or hoping to get engaged this holiday season.

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Palladium on the Red Carpet at the 2011 Emmys

Did you notice all the Palladium jewelry that was worn on the red carpet at this year’s Emmys? We did! Celebrities Christina Hendricks, Kelly Osbourne and Giuliana Rancic were all wearing it.

Only a few nights before the Emmys we also saw Christina Hendricks attending the premier of her new movie “I Don’t Know How She Does It” along side costars Sarah Jessica Parker, Olivia Munn and Greg Kinnear, again all wearing Palladium.

So has Palladium finally arrived in Hollywood? Well we can’t answer that question, but we can say that Palladium has definitely arrived in the wedding and fine jewelry world. With the price of Gold, Platinum and Diamonds sky rocketing to all time highs it’s no wonder this incredibly beautiful and extremely resilient metal is starting to make its presence known.

 So what is Palladium?

Palladium is a member of the Platinum family. It shares many of the same characteristics as Platinum, but it doesn’t hold the higher price point. Palladium has the identical luster and color of Platinum and will even develop the lovely patina that Platinum forms over time. Palladium is as strong as Platinum, is hypo-allergenic and is offered at an 18k gold price. At MiaDonna® we offer Pure 950 Palladium, considered to be the finest mixture available and of course our offering is 100% recycled and eco-friendly. One thing to keep in mind when creating your ring from Palladium is the fact that it takes a highly skilled jeweler to work with the metal. This is because of the extremely high temperatures used, you’ll want to maintain your ring with a jeweler that is confident in working with Palladium – like us!

If you desire the look of Platinum but don’t like the price, Palladium is a great alternative that you will love for a life time. Every ring at Miadonna.com is available in our eco-friendly Palladium. You can learn more about Palladium and how it stands up to all our other precious metals here.

MiaDonna&Company and The Greener Diamond founder Anna-Mieke Anderson in New Zealand’s, The Profit Magazine

The Profit Magazine, Hawke’s Bay’s Business resource, recently wrote an article on our founder and native Hawke’s Bay resident Anna-Mieke Anderson. The article covers Anna-Mieke’s work in Africa through The Greener Diamond foundation and the development of MiaDonna®, a social and environmentally conscious fine jewelry retail chain that solely funds the projects carried out by The Greener Diamond.

The full article by The Profit:

Anna-Mieke Anderson- Her niche in life and business found setting up a green farm of a unique type across the globe in Africa

Sierra Leone is a long way from the glitz and glamour of Hollywood where movie stars and celebrities wear jewelry often harvested by African communities on the brink of destruction.

But is it where Hastings-born Anna-Mieke Anderson realised her dream setting up “The Greener Diamond Farm” which aims to reduce the impact mining has on its environment and people.

She initially founded her business MiaDonna and Co in 2005 in Portland, Oregon, developing technology to make man-made diamond products as an alternative to conflict diamonds, also known as “blood diamonds” mined in Africa.

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MiaDonna® is set to attend the 2011 JCK Las Vegas.

MiaDonna® is set to attend the annual JCK Las Vegas, the jewelery industries largest and premier jewelers convention set to be held June 3rd to June 6th at the Mandalay Bay hotel and Casino. This will be our 5th consecutive year attending this prestigious event.

The series of JCK Events are designed to serve the worldwide jewelry industry by offering the most comprehensive and complete buying and selling opportunities on a business-to-business basis. This year we will be meeting with many new designers, attending media and spending sometime listening to industry experts give their take on the future of the fine jewelry industry and what they think the hottest trends will be for 2011.

We will be showing off our new finds and sharing our experience with our twitter and Face Book friends, so follow us today to see what is happening. Some of the cool things we hope to share with everyone will be our experience at the leVian Red Carpet event and the after party concert with Bruno Mars performing.

MiaDonna® earns Green America’s business seal of approval

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MiaDonna & Company earns Green America’s business seal of approval

MiaDonna & Company is thrilled to announce it has been awarded the Green America Business Seal of Approval.  The seal is presented to businesses that go beyond product and service quality to set the highest standards in environmental sustainability and social justice, and work to solve, rather than create, environmental and social problems.

To be considered for the Seal of Approval and earn a listing in the annual National Green Pages™, businesses complete a rigorous screening process to ensure they meet Green America’s standards for the environment, community and labor.

MiaDonna® is known for its exquisite eco-friendly fine jewelery created from your choice of recycled 14K or 18K white, yellow or rose gold as well as recycled pure 950 Platinum and pure 950 Palladium. Every ring at MiaDonna® comes set with their magnificent and incredibly affordable diamond infused simulant, the Diamond Hybrid®, with options to also have your ring set with a lab grown gemstone or lab grown diamond.

MiaDonna® represents a jewelry company at the fore front of sustainability and ethics, and has taken it upon themselves to not only offer jewelry consumers beautiful alternatives to dirty gold and blood diamonds, but has created a foundation called “The Greener Diamond” that actually repairs diamond mining communities in Africa. In short, your choice to buy from MiaDonna® will actively repair the communities and land that have been devastated by the traditional harvesting of diamonds and natural resources. To learn more about the difference your choices can make please visit The Greener Diamond.

“We are incredibly excited to be approved for Green Amercia’s seal of Approval,” said Trever Anderson, MiaDonna® and Greener Diamond, Co-founder and Vice President. “It’s one of the most respected and recognized symbols in the green marketplace and a powerful way to set MiaDonna® apart from all the other green wash jewelers out there.”

MiaDonna & Company is now an Approved member of the Green Business Network, a distinguished and celebrated group of companies that use their products and services as a vehicle for social and environmental change.

More on the Green Business Network:

The Green Business Network (GBN) offers a vibrant community of over 4,000 environmentally and socially responsible businesses, the oldest and largest of its kind in the US.  GBN is powered by Green America, a non-profit whose mission is to harness the economic power of consumers and businesses to create a more just and sustainable economy.  More information on GBN can be found at www.greenbusinessnetwork.org and for more on the Seal of Approval, click on “Get the Seal.”

MiaDonna® CEO Anna-Mieke Anderson in Next magazine New Zealand

MiaDonna® CEO Anna-Mieke Anderson recently traveled to her native country of New Zealand where she was interviewed by both TVNZ and NEXT magazine.

Anna-Mieke spoke about MiaDonna® and its eco-friendly, conflict free jewelry as well as The Greener Diamond Foundation and its mission to  restore diamond mining communities in Africa affected by the unethical harvesting of traditional earth mined diamonds.

MiaDonna Diamond alternatives on TVNZ Breakfast, New Zealand

MiaDonna & Company CEO Anna-Mieke Anderson recently traveled to Auckland, New Zealand for a segment on TVNZ, New Zealands leading media resource. While there Anna-Mieke spoke about both our man made (grown) diamonds and our Diamond Hybrid® simulant as well as the availability of recycled precious metals and the charity work we are currently doing in Sierra Leone, Africa through The Greener Diamond foundation.

Anna-Mieke was born in the small town of Hastings, New Zealand and was thrilled to head home and introduce her native country to the fine line of eco-friendly engagement rings and wedding rings that are now available from MiaDonna.com