Shipping and delivery:

We ship most orders from our shop within a week. Custom pieces usually take about 6 weeks or less. Very detailed and extensive pieces can take years, we do get some interesting commissions!  Just get in touch and we will schedule you in. If you need your piece by a certain date please let us know, and we will do our best for you.

Payment:

We use PayPal for your safety and ours use our out check out or we can send you an invoice. We can even set up payments if you would like to pay over time.

Materials that we use in our jewelry designs:

Suzan and I work with just about any type of stone, from alexandrite to beach pebbles. The only things that matter is durability and the meaning to you.

We make our pieces in sterling silver and in 14K white, yellow, or rose gold as well as 18K white or yellow gold, or 22k yellow gold.  Prices will reflect your choice. You can also choose the type of stones that you would like us to set in your piece. We have been making jewelry for many decades and have great stone sources and prices.

White gold:

the differences between palladium and common Nickel gold alloys: We copied this article from our refiner’s website. To read the entire article go to: http://technical-articles.hooverandstrong.com/wordpress/do-chemicals-affect-your-gold/

The white gold alloys we use are palladium white gold alloys in 14K and 18K. A new way of marking this gold has been recently introduced, (D) is now used instead of (K). The ratio of gold to alloy is the same as in common white gold but palladium is used instead of Nickel. We are a small, artists enterprise and we choose to use the best quality 14D and 18D white gold we can find.

Why Palladium White Gold?

Nickel is used to make gold white, like a bleach for metal. Nickel however,can cause an allergic reaction in some people. Gold alloys containing Nickel sometimes require plating to make them appear white. If that isn’t bad enough, bleach and a few other common household products will slowly weaken Nickel white gold.

Technical Information from our refiner on prong failure:

Based on our testing, a consumer wearing a 14K nickel white gold setting would lose a stone or expect prong breakage as follows:

Results Of Each Solution

5% chlorine bleach heated to 110°F, prong failure would occur after 21 hours of exposure. Only the platinum and palladium white gold settings held their stones in the worst test solution.
5% chlorine bleach room temperature -prong failure would occur after 120 hours of exposure.
5 ppm (parts per million) chlorine using hot tub chemicals-prong failure would occur after 312 hours or 156 days.*
5 ppm (parts per million) bromine using hot tub chemicals-prong failure would occur after 384 hours or 192 days. *
Household detergent -no visible effects on the setting.

* based on 2 hours a day, 7 days a week. To read the entire article go to: http://technical-articles.hooverandstrong.com/wordpress/do-chemicals-affect-your-gold/