It’s finally over. The Real Housewives of Atlanta took Bravo by storm this fall, and last night the ladies of leisure put an end to the bickering, blubbering and backstabbing in the season’s finale.

For those of you who have managed to avoid the Housewives phenomenon, the Bravo series follows a group of wealthy wives in various ‘gated communities’ throughout this fine land of ours. We’ve been to sunny Orange County, sophisticated New York and now the wilds of Atlanta.

The playmate next door is about to take a trip down the aisle and say bye bye Playby Mansion. Kendra Wilkinson, a former girlfriend of that sprightly octagariean Hugh Hefner, has announced that she’s giving …

Diamonds, pearls and gemstones are familiar faces in your jewelry box, but what if you found them in the floor? Nope, not on the floor, IN the floor. Luxury tile and flooring company, Pietra Firma, is satisfying the opulent tastes of home design hounds by putting the bling in an exclusive line of glittering tiles.

Hip hop’s top dog, Russell Simmons, and Ugandan model, Kiara Kabukuru, showed off two gigantic diamonds to the press this week. The two radiant rocks were cut from the famous 316-carat Ponahalo diamond and will be the centerpiece at Christie’s Auction House for their highly anticipated event, “Jewels: The New York Sale”.

Jewelry lovers, we have good news. A new, state-of-the art jewelry resource center at New York’s Museum of Arts And Design (MAD) opened last week with its inaugural show, Elegant Armor: The Art of Jewelry. The exhibition explores the inspirations for contemporary jewelry, including the fine arts, the human form and the natural world. Featuring over 130 works from 1948 to the present, pieces are drawn from the museum’s collection of approximately 450 modern and contemporary selections and will be on display until March 2009.

One whopper of a diamond was unearthed this month at Gem Diamonds’ Letseng mine in Lsotho, a small kingdom inside South Africa. The company announced the 478-carat rough gem has the potential to become one of the largest round-cut diamonds in the world.