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With COVID-19 continuing to affect travel plans, it may be time for a staycation. What’s a staycation? A vacation spent in one’s home country rather than abroad, or a vacation spent at home. Home doesn’t mean actually staying in your home, but getting out and exploring your city or town. Here are MJR’s top four […]

Remake them into new jewelry with My Jewelry Repair! Having loose gemstones is a common dilemma for many jewelry enthusiasts and collectors, but they don’t have to stay loose forever. Recently we had an customer bring in a heart gem and wanted to make a necklace. After brainstorming with our master jewelers, we thought the […]

If COVID-19 has affected your travel plans and you’re embracing the idea of a staycation, the fun doesn’t need to stop at what is new and locally available. Right now is a great time to take a different sort of trip—one down memory lane! While you don’t need to stop planning for your next exciting […]

Now is the time to be thinking about how you shop for jewelry (including fine jewelry), as the power of the purchase can positively impact the lives and livelihoods of artisans and makers. Here are three minority-owned and woman-owned jewelry designers worth a follow on Instagram. Insta: @amareeandreesejewelry Amaree + Reese is a small-batch, minority-owned […]

According to the CDC, helping others cope with their stress during the time of COVID-19 can help all of us get through this together, stronger. This can be done by providing social support in the form of letters, phone calls, words of affirmation, and more. As the CDC notes, “During times of increased social distancing, […]

Trying to break in, or break through, as an outsider — someone in the minority gender, race, social class or otherwise — has never been easy, but it can be done. Continuing with our series highlighting early female jewelry designers, today we will look at the life of early jewelry designer, Suzanne Belperron, who in […]