Happy Stories From our customers

As a custom design jeweler in Scottsdale, people often assume that we’re capable of “copying” another jeweler’s piece of work. And while many customers seem 100% sure they want that ring that Anglina Jolie wore on the red carpet, with some digging, we find out much more.

You see, often people want the same feeling as that particular piece and not that exact piece. What we try to do is extract that essential concept and personalize it to fit you (and not Angelina Jolie!) It’s not that hard, really. Because like a thumbprint, we all have individual styles. Our job is to help you uncover it.

So feel free to be inspired by an ad in the latest Vogue. But then let us custom design a piece uniquely created for the greatest star in your life: you!

Below is a touching story of one woman who not only found therapeutic qualitites to jewelry making while in the hospital but realized the importance of paying it forward once she was released.

(Rachel Marolda is close to making her next $10,000 donation and hopes to do so after the holiday season. To order some jewelry that will benefit a great cause, contact her at 617-840-4490 or email crystalsforacause@gmail.com.)

Reading resident and Boston College Junior Rachel Marolda learned to make jewelry in 2006 while recuperating from brain surgery. She eventually made and sold enough jewelry to donate $10,000 to Children’s Hospital Boston, where she was treated. She will make her next $10,000 donation after the holidays.

Marolda had her first brain surgery in 2006, when she was just 14-years-old, to remove a tumor that was sandwiched between her pituitary gland and optic nerve. She became restless while recuperating, so her mother suggested she make jewelry. With help from her mom, and teaching herself basic techniques, Marolda began making earrings, bracelets and necklaces.

After recovering, she started working at a bead store in North Reading, Bett’s Bead Shoppe. Bett taught her new skills, how to perfect what she already knew about jewelry making, and paid her in beads.

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Rachel Marolda

 

 

This article captivated me and I wanted to share it with our readers. In it, the writer describes with greater detail the importance of defining and developing a style for yourself that’s both workable and wise. The great part? Anyone can incorporate these basic tips to create a more refined look:

Choose one core theme

The theme will serve as the central story for your look.  For the purpose of this post lets use texture as our core theme as it is a very subtle yet sophisticated way to create visual interest and a personal favorite of mine.  In order to do this, you have to pay attention to the materials that your clothing and accessories are made of and what effect the materials have on light, color and feel.  Next, decide whether you want your accessories and outfit to highlight a cohesive textural feel or contrast each other to engage the eyes.  The look from Dior below uses the knobby texture of the bracelet to accentuate the grainy weave of the tweed dresses.

Dior Haute Couture F/W 2012/13

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A friend of mine swears by Halloween jewelry. She doens’t really like to bother much with costumes but has a fun collection of Halloween jewelry which she feels constitutes a “costume.”

Check out some of these fun pieces if you’re “costume lazy” like my friend: