Stories From The Jewelry Box

A diamond stick pin finds a new home as custom designed jewelry.  It's in a box on the top shelf of your closet.  Or maybe it's in a sock in your underwear drawer. Doesn't matter - we all have it.  That hidden stash of Grandma's jewelry. It's not that we don't like it.  We just don't know how to wear it again.  I mean, really, who wears stick pins anymore! That's where  Scott's Custom Jewelers  comes in.  An elderly woman brought in a small pouch of old jewelry for us to evaluate.  Some of it was costume.  Others were sterling silver pieces, now black with tarnish.  After a little dipping and polishing, we brought those pieces back to life, no problems. But there was that diamond stick pin.  And Grandma's plain white gold wedding band. The solution was almost too simple.  We used the wedding band as a frame, and attached the top of the diamond stick pin to the piece, creating a very modern, yet vintage, pendant. We simply poli

Wow! A stunning 14k white and rose gold diamond wedding ring restyled from old jewelry.   It must be spring - because it's definitely coming up roses at Scott's Custom Jewelers! Rose gold, that is.  Like most things, jewelry trends start on the coasts.  Slowly, but surely the latest looks creep towards the Midwest.  By the time they get to us, they are tried and true.  And easily adopted. We've been doing quite a few jewelry pieces in colored gold lately, with rose gold being the favorite.  It's soft blush looks great on every skin tone, and is especially beautiful with white gold and diamonds. Cheryl came to us recently with a "bag of opportunity" - old jewelry pieces she no longer wore, and a vision of what she wanted in a new, restyled wedding ring. It had to be wide, but not tight.  Delicate looking, but not light weight or chintzy.  And she really wanted to use her original engagement diamond, a marquise.  Because we women are sentimental.

We restyled an 80's era necklace into a cool, funky sea life pendant.  We all have those pieces of jewelry in the bottom of our jewelry box that we don't wear.  We call them jewelry ghosts - they randomly appear, we stare at them in disbelief ("Did I really wear that!") and quickly close the lid. But, there is hope.  Take that 1980's style blue sapphire and diamond necklace for example.  Your remember it - the one that came down to a pointed V (and never was straight), made of 14k yellow gold with a herringbone chain (that kinked the first time you wore it) with clusters of sapphires and diamonds. It was The Necklace .  You wore it to every wedding, holiday party and formal event.  And because you did, you can't bring yourself to get rid of it.  And you shouldn't - we have a solution. Restyle it into something current, modern, fun-to-wear! Marcia had one of those necklaces.  Even though she still works outside of the home, she doesn'