Jewelry Boxes

By Betty Yates


What is in a jewelry box? Is it just jewelry items such as necklaces, earrings, rings and other types of miscellaneous jewelry? If the answer to the question was yes, then there is a small issue. It does not just hold a person's jewelry collection, but it embodies it and is an extension of you and the choices you have made up to this point. Let's dig a little deeper into this situation.

While on the surface it may not seem as if there is much to read into, below lies lots of meaning and hidden messages. A good example would be a diamond necklace in it.

Whatever design themes you choose to highlight must be applied consistently and consciously, leaving no detail to chance. Exceptional care must always be taken to make sure that the beauty of each individual piece of wood is displayed to its utmost advantage.

Now that you have answered questions about a necklace in your jewelry box, now it is time to move on to something much more common and important, the rings in a jewelry box. Most jewelry boxes come with ring rolls, allowing for storage and many types of rings.

Pearls need to be kept clean if they are to continue to look their best. Never put your pearls inside an ultrasonic jewelry cleaner for this purpose. While these cleaners are effective in buffing up harder stones like diamonds and sapphires, they can be very damaging to more vulnerable pearls. By the same token, avoid harsh chemicals or cleaners that can harm your precious stones. Instead, roll your pearls gently in a soft chamois cloth until they sparkle.

Our sawyers know we are fanatics about wood quality and choose from their prime stock. Once the wood arrives in Colorado, we allow it to acclimate for 1-6 months depending on the species. By adjusting to the arid climate of the southwest, the wood naturally reaches an optimal 5% moisture content without structural tensions.

These are just a few ways to really take a look back at your life and reflect on the choices you have made throughout your life. While it may seem silly at first to look into a jewelry box for your past and determine what kind of person you are, the answers to these question are in there, you just have to look hard enough.

So we go to exceptional lengths in the crafting process and take care with things like: selecting each piece of wood for the box from the same piece of wood, so the wood "wraps" around each corner, and constructing each wooden box with floating panels so the wood can move as needed, depending on the climate you live, and reinforcing joints in several ways, providing a redundancy that mass manufacturers don't have time to do, sanding each piece up to 20 separate times, and using a finish that's durable, non-toxic to the environment, and maintenance-free. There's a lot more but, hopefully, this helps you understand why our jewelry boxes have been displayed in museums and described as "heirlooms".




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