Winter Flowers

Is there anything more beautiful than flowers in winter? Here’s a pretty ring from Stuller to spark joy in a certain person’s heart—or maybe yours?—at this time and, really, in any season.

https://www.stuller.com/products/57724/18745652/?groupId=209263&recommendationSource=Brochure9190&inStockOnly=true

 

The ring is featured here in white gold, and is also available in gold (which is called “yellow gold” in Jewelry-Land) and rose gold, along with platinum and sterling.

 

Call us today at 415/796-3969 (text 415/596-4244) and it’ll be on your doorstep in time for the holiday. But don’t delay, honey. The holiday is a week from tomorrow.

 

“What?”

 

Yes, indeed. So give us a call—oh, that must be you now. Hello! 

 

San Francisco Jewelry Doctor. Holidays, simplified. 

©2021 Laynie Tzena. All Rights Reserved. 

 

Pictures Are A Wonderful Thing, or All Is Not Lost, Part Three

Dear San Francisco Jewelry Doctor:

 

I saw your story about recreating lost jewelry, and I am here today to tell you that you are wrong. My late jeweler, who is now designing for the stars in the sky, drew the engagement ring for my now-fiancée, and then created it in three different kinds of gold. When I lost my jeweler, we also lost that ring—forever. My friend also lost a tree pendant that had been created in rose gold. It, too, was unique.

 

So while I’m sure you’re very good at what you do, you cannot recreate jewelry like the pieces I described. Admit it.

 

Signed, 

 

Bereft in North Dakota

 

Dear BIND:

 

First of all, please accept my condolences on the loss of a treasured person in your life. It sounds as though you may have worked with a metalsmith*. That is a great thing. Metalsmiths are wonderful. No doubt about it. We have metalsmiths on our team, and we have enormous respect for their gifts.

 

That said, when it comes to jewelry that is purely metalwork, for example a design in gold or silver, unless you have/had the ability to travel back in time to work with Michelangelo directly**, chances are, your original jeweler based his/her design on a drawing (from something s/he saw or imagined), which can be recreated—once you provide us with either a photograph or a sketch. (We are also jewelers. We draw. We work from drawings. And we have imagination, too.)

 

So don’t despair! Call us at 415/796-3969 (text 415/596-4244), and that ring will soon be back on her finger. And about that tree? We can make that, too. (We love trees. We have seen many a beautiful tree, and drawn or taken pictures of lots of them. Happy to recreate your tree, and did you know we also have some wonderful trees in our collection of finished jewelry?)

 

San Francisco Jewelry Doctor. Making the impossible happen, on a regular basis.

 

*People who create jewelry (and other things) in gold, platinum, silver, bronze, and other metals are called metalsmiths. Again, we hold the ones on our team and the others who practice this art in high esteem. They are amazing.

 

**Even then. They usually worked from drawings. Also: you have mastered time travel? We are all ears! (Well, hands, too—while listening to you is the most important part of the work we do, designing by ear alone is beyond us. We admit it.)

 

©2021 Laynie Tzena. All Rights Reserved.