Color Trends: Pantone’s 2017 Color of the Year, Greenery Always an exciting announcement for design geeks, the Pantone Color of the Year is a predictor of trends and a fun way to think outside your default color pallet. And you can add this year’s Color of the Year to your collection with a piece of […]
More Handmade Custom Jewelry: Our 2017 Goals So I feel like we spend a lot of time around this time every year discussing what went well, what did not go well, and what we would like to happen as we move forward in our business. And since this blog is my focus right now, it […]
Here at Hunt Country Jewelers we make custom handmade jewelry- from start to finish. And when we say start, we mean it. We often start with a rough gemstone, cut it, and hand build the setting for it using the lost wax casting method. In this series of videos we have captured that process for […]
Handmade and Original Custom Jewelry: How to Shop Our Site Custom? Commissioned? In stock? So…you want a piece of handmade Hunt Country jewelry, there are many avenues! Avenue One: Original Handmade 18K and Platinum Jewelry This is our in stock inventory; these pieces are all Hunt Country designs– handmade by us right here in Virginia. […]
Where Does Handmade Custom Jewelry fit into Jewelry Trends? Here’s the short answer: everywhere. Yes, by definition, trends come and go, they are ephemeral and hard to predict. Some last a season and some a decade. But some things never go out of style and handmade custom jewelry is one of them. I’ve started a […]
It’s the most stressful, I mean, wonderful time of the year! But lets be real, shopping can be stressful- so Hunt Country is here to help! Make things less stressful for your shopping significant others- fill out a Hunt Country Wish List so they can always choose what you will love! And make things less stressful […]
We’ve all been there – on the jewelry merry-go-round, spinning from store to store, getting nowhere. Diamonds, gold, and platinum swim before your eyes, but you can’t find that particular just-right piece you had in mind. It’s enough to make you give up and just buy another Keurig™.
It’s tempting, I know- that parcel of diamond melee for sale on Ebay. It’s just exactly the right price for your budget and the size is pretty close, the quality listed is acceptable to you. Perfect, right? Well, maybe. Consider the benefits of letting your jeweler source diamond and gemstone melee, side stones, and matched […]
We have a seen a rash- an epidemic, really- lately of loose center stones coming in for repair. The vast majority of them have not been HCJ pieces (I say this to be generous, in actuality none of them have been HCJ pieces) and it has been an education to examine other work and determine […]
Paraiba. Padparascha. Merelani. These monikers denote special colored gemstones- and often special gemstones mean extra special expensive price tags. So what’s the skinny on these denotations? Where do they come from and do they affect prices?
