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Wax Seals Get a New Look!

Wax Seals Get a New Look!

My wax seal jewelry line - necklaces that hold charms crafted from genuine antique stamps - remains among my most loved and bestselling jewelry tha...

Mother's Day 2017 Gift Guide

Whether for your own mother, a new mother, or the mother of your children, jewelry makes a meaningful and perfect gift for Mother's Day. The Stace...

Vintage Fashion and Jewelry Photoshoot

Brocade, silk, satin, gold, diamonds, enamel...the combination of vintage clothing and jewelry can be intoxicating! We collaborated with photograph...

5 Tips for Buying Vintage Jewelry

Perhaps your thrill is Saturday morning yard sales in warmer weather. Or maybe you're the Ebay aficionado, always looking for that opportunity to g...

Amethyst Gemstone History

A stone for the masses, amethyst has adorned many a royal crown, and yet has remained affordable enough to make its way into everyday jewelry in re...

Valentine's Gift Guide

Valentine's Day is rooted in the Roman festival of Lupercalia, a fertility festival dedicated to Faunus, the Roman God of agriculture, and Roman fo...

5 Vintage Engagement Ring Ideas for the Alternative Bride

Over the centuries, starting even with Posy rings in the middle ages, rings have been given as tokens of affection. However, despite what many mode...

Garnet Gemstone History

At the start of the New Year is one of our favorite stones in antique jewelry - garnet. Garnet is the gemstone of January birthdays, the Zodiac sig...

The 12 Days Gift Guide - Day 12 - Best of the Best

We've made it! It's the 12th day of our "12 Days of Holiday" gift guide and today we feature the "best of the best" - our most favorite and best pi...

The 12 Days Gift Guide - Day 11 - Gifts for the Romantic

Some of us are just born romantics. We gravitate towards the classic love stories, we swoon over flowers, and we adore Paris. Romantics love jewelr...

The 12 Days Gift Guide - Day 10- Gifts for the Art Deco Lover

The roaring 20's - a time of the Great Gatsby, flappers and outfits draped with jewels. It's a time of the Art Deco movement,growing out of the Int...

The 12 Days Gift Guide - Day 9 - Silver and Gold

Silver and gold, silver and gold Ev'ryone wishes for silver and gold How do you measure its worth? Just by the pleasure it gives here on Earth... T...

The 12 Days Gift Guide - Day 8 - Talismans

With the meaning and symbolism that come along with the holidays, a gift in the form of a talisman is a great match. It will be a piece of jewelry ...