The Best Times To Buy Wedding Jewelry

The Best Times To Buy Wedding Jewelry

Weddings are the best day of a couple’s life and the beginning of life together. They can also be a very daunting thing to plan with the combination of choosing your vendors, making a seating arrangement and getting your outfit ready for the big day. Wedding fashion...
Layering Across the Ages

Layering Across the Ages

Jewelry is perhaps one of the oldest forms of expression. Whether that be of the self, love, social standing or religious belief, jewelry always gets the job done. Within the last few years, jewelry layering has drifted in and out of fashion. Layering of gold chains...
Famously Cursed Gems

Famously Cursed Gems

With Halloween right around the corner, everyone is starting to shift their focus to all things scary. Home and yard decor, horror movies and ghost stories are out of their seasonal boxes and now an aspect of everyone’s day-to-day life. The jewelry world, despite the...

Alaska and Oregon Jewelry

At the beginning of May, you most likely noticed that we had closed for a week. While the owners had gone to an education conference hosted by the American Gem Society, I traveled north to Alaska to see family. Despite not going there to shop for jewelry or even learn...

An Exploration of Art Deco Jewelry

We see a lot of unique jewelry come through Olufson Designs. Whether it’s a piece in our famed estate case, a piece we’ve repaired or a piece being evaluated, antiques and family heirlooms are a common sight within the walls of our shop. These pieces also come with...