San Francisco Jewelry Doctor

We all have things we love. And that’s wonderful. Favorite foods we prepare or order in a restaurant, outfits we wear again and again—thes...

Two important elements of jewelry design are color and line. Let's start with color. Part One. What About Value? People sometim...

Is it “pehr-ee-dow?” “Pehr-ih-dot?”  However you say it, this month’s birthstone is a beauty, with that bright olive color (and it is olivi...

  “I don’t know if there are enough beads,” said Carolyn.   She was right. There were a lot missing. We talked about a couple...

“Anything we can do about this pin?   It was my grandmother’s,” said Nancy.    And what a beauty!    Look at those flowers.    And that...

At a holiday gathering I met a woman wearing a wonderful blue jacket with a silver thread. She was striking and so was the jacket. I looke...

As jewelry-lovers with birthdays this month are happy to tell their loved ones, July’s gemstone is the ruby. http://www.minerals.net/gems...

Our stone of the month is (drumroll, please): the diamond. Since this is the fourth month let's focus on the four important aspects to...

Sorry, Betty: a British study investigating “hair color and the intensity of attraction” (we’re all ears, Wikipedia), found that a sizabl...

As we recently discussed, I once aspired to be blonde, and ended up with hair that was screaming orange. I came to love having dark hair—g...

I love it when people ask, “What kind of jewelry do you design?” All kinds of beautiful jewelry, actually—from very simple to very elaborate...

Janet said she'd brought back malachite from Fez, and I said thanks. But as soon as I took one look I knew it was fossil. I was equa...

Once upon a time, a woman had a beautiful five-strand pearl necklace. She wore it often. This was the "Jazz Age," and faux pearls ...

Photographer Dewitt Jones was doing an assignment for a magazine. He was to be dropped off at one location and soon picked up there and take...