Looking For Trends? Try These On 

JCK Trade Show

Looking For Trends? Try These On  Should be you getting into ear stacks? Talismans? Opals and emeralds?  JCK, a leading jewelry industry magazine, convened its annual trade show in Las Vegas last week, billed as the country’s largest exposition of what’s hot and what’s new.  For a panel discussion on those subjects, the magazine convened […]

R.I.P., James Avery

Picture of James Avery

We have carried many items designed by James Avery over the years, and we were sad to learn of the legendary jeweler’s passing on the last day of April at the age of 96. His was a great Texas story: like many of us, he started his journey somewhere else – born in Milwaukee, raised […]

All that glitters… shouldn’t be traded for a guitar

Painting a rock gold

Like Grandma always told us: Never buy gold in a parking lot. Kudos to Cody Gleason, a Dallas man who braved embarrassment and went public with his tale of foolishly trading a $3,000 guitar for gold bullion that turned out to be fake. As seen here in a TV news story, Gleason refurbishes guitars and sells them on […]