Concerned about the impact your jewelry choices have on the planet and its inhabitants? Read about the many ways you can chose beautiful jewelry without compromising your ethics.
Have you ever wondered what to do with old gold pieces or broken jewelry? Would you like to get free jewelry from my website, and recycle precious metals at the same time? You can get value out of old or broken gold jewelry without dealing with pawn shops or high pressure “cash for gold”...
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The true beauty of top-quality hand blown cane glass, also known as furnace glass, cannot be fully appreciated until you hold a piece of jewelry made with it in your hand. It has a clear, bright, rich appearance that reminds me of the finest jewels. There are few producers of top-quality cane glass. Cheap...
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Kazuri (Swahili for “small and beautiful”) beads are handmade ceramic beads made in Kenya, and not only are they beautiful, they have a great story behind them. In 1975, Lady Susan Wood started a small bead-making company to employ two disadvantaged Kenyan women. That enterprise has grown over the years into an operation that...
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As a USA based artist, I find it important to mention that not all fine jewelry artists are in the USA, and not all makers of handmade jewelry in the USA produce quality pieces. One of the glass lampwork bead makers I most admire is Gail Kopps in Germany, and one of the finest...
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Handmade jewelry constructed in China and other emerging-economy countries is often the product of exploited and low-paid workers, who are often subject to unpleasant and unsafe working conditions. When you purchase a piece of fine handmade jewelry sold directly by the artist or from a gallery commissioning their work, you know that the artist...
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