2016 Kansas City Chiefs Ambassador Rings

When a Kansas City Chief retires from football, they are inducted into the Ambassadors.

“The Ambassadors are the only group of its kind in the NFL and inductees into the group are hand-picked based mostly on tenure and their willingness to participate in Ambassador outreach events and meetings.”

We are in the process of creating the 2016 KC Chiefs Ambassadors rings. In case you missed it, we did an in-depth story on our custom rings for the KC Chiefs Ambassadors back in 2014.

We’ve been building custom rings for the KC Chiefs Ambassadors for many years… but we’re REALLY looking forward to building a Superbowl Championship ring!

The photos below show you a few of the many stages we go through when custom designing and creating a ring.

The New House of Diamonds Sign!

We’ve had a white awning in front of our store for the past 22 years. It has our House of Diamonds logo on it. It was past time to update our signage. Next time you come by, be sure to look at the new sign!

We worked with Luminous Neon Inc. to create and install the new sign. They do work all over Kansas and have done work for us in the past. We hope you agree, they do great work!

Bra Couture KC 2016 Event

Bra Couture KC’s annual event is an extraordinary auction event showcasing eclectic work-of-art bras modeled by breast cancer survivors to celebrate their triumph over cancer. The event celebrates breast cancer survivors to raise funds for Kansas City area organizations who are aligned with their mission. The mission of Bra Couture KC is to provide life-empowering services to uninsured and under-insured individuals in the greater Kansas City area who have been touched by all cancers.

A tribute to survivors’ fighting spirit, Bra Couture KC benefits The University of Kansas Cancer Center programs and services, such as The Patient-in-Need Fund at Missys’ Boutique, which is an accredited appearance center at The University of Kansas Cancer Center’s Richard and Annette Bloch Cancer Care Center.

House of Diamonds has supported Missy’s Boutique in the past and that’s how we found out about the Bra Couture event.

Karen and Bianca attended the event on April 1st. House of Diamonds donated a matching earring and necklace set for the live auction. Karen custom designed the earring and necklace set with pink sapphires and amethyst to match the bra that was going to be auctioned.

Bra Couture KC raised $4,000 with our donation during the auction!

Instead of a traditional sit-down dinner, they had restaurants from all over the KC Metro with food stations at the event. Each restaurant had sample portions of their wonderful food.

It was a great evening to raise money for a good cause. House of Diamonds is committed to giving back to the community. If you are interested in learning more about Bra Couture KC, be sure to visit their site!

Custom Design – His and Her Platinum, Diamond and Sapphire Rings

Eric and Tina were getting engaged and looking for design inspiration when they saw a picture of a vintage ring with aquamarine accents. (Aquamarine is a a precious stone with blue and green color hues.) It was an interesting concept that they loved. Eric wanted to create an engagement ring with that same feel, but with diamonds.

Karen worked with Eric on the designs for both rings. Eric was going for a specific feel and only had a rough idea of what he wanted the finished items to look like. Karen brought the elements of the initial design idea and Eric’s vision together in a computer design. After a couple of modifications, Eric was thrilled with the final design. A model of the ring was created for final approval and then cast in platinum.

Eric wanted a truly vintage version of the diamond and chose to have it “rose cut”. This means it doesn’t have a flat top. It’s a dome shape that is faceted and challenging to create. We had to have the stones specifically cut to exact measurements by our diamond cutter.

When Eric presented the engagement ring to Tina, she was blown away! She and Eric worked together with Karen to create something unique for Eric’s wedding ring that borrowed from the design ideas of Tina’s ring.

All of our custom designs are finished by hand, but these rings required even more engraving and tooling than normal. Corey, one of our in house jewelers, did an amazing job finishing them!

This project included something that’s never been done before. We’ve never seen a rose cut, crescent shape diamond in any jewelry item until this project.

Congratulations to Eric and Tina on their recent marriage. Tina was able to wear her engagement ring for two years, and Eric was so excited to finally be able to wear his ring as well!

Custom Design – Trista’s 5 Year Anniversary Ring

Jason and Trista have been friends and customers of ours for many years. When Jason wanted to do something special for Trista for their 5 year anniversary, he turned to House of Diamonds. He wanted Karen to work her magic with a custom design. And he wanted Trista to be able to work with Karen to create something beautiful.

Trista loves the ocean and cruising. She had talked about wanting a ring with a blue diamond as the central focus to remind her of the sea. She also loved the idea of knots on the side to represent nautical rope used to anchor ships.

Karen and Trista worked together to come up with design ideas and then Karen went to work creating a design as a computer model that Trista could see. Trista was so excited with what Karen had created!

Once Trista approved the design, Karen created a mold of the ring so that Trista could see what it would look like on her hand. After that, the jewelers at House of Diamonds cast the platinum ring and set the diamonds to create the finished item.

Jason surprised Trista with the ring during a gathering of friends, right before their vacation to Turks and Caicos. Trista was able to wear her ring on their trip, where the water in the ocean perfectly matched the blue diamond in the middle of her setting.

We loved seeing the smile on Trista’s face when she told us about getting to wear her new custom jewelry for the first time!