Essential fine jewelry care tips for cold weather activities, from the ski slopes to social occasions!

Jewelry is meant to be worn, but here's what to know about wearing it while playing sports - and the best spectator jewels: emerald, pearl, and opal!

Jewelry is meant to be worn, but unintended damage can occur. Here are 4 common repairs and wear & care tips to preserve the integrity of your future heirlooms.

How to clean fine jewelry. Here are the do's and don't's of caring for different gemstones and kinds of jewelry and other tips to ensure your jewelry sparkles!

3 tips to avoid tangling your delicate layering necklaces. Discover jewelry wear and care tips for your fine jewelry and things to know about softer gemstones.

Dos and Don'ts of fine jewelry and summer. Here are wear and care tips to keep your jewelry sparkling at the beach, pool, tennis court, gardening, and beyond!

Opals have me hooked because they drip with color!

One that uniquely spoke to me is this 0.65 carat black opal, responsibly sourced by Hopkins Opal from Australia's Lightning Ridge.

This stunner (and a few others) will help us briefly decode things to know and questions to ask when buying an opal or opal jewelry! You'll also learn important wear and care considerations about opal, some of which are shared with pearl.

It is said that “pearls wanat to be worn”. This is absolutely true because wearing your pearls prevents them from dehydration!

With this in mind, discover wear and care tips for pearls!

I talk a lot about why jewelry “ingredients” matter and emerald demonstrates one of the many “facets” of this topic. While on the “hard” side of the Mohs Scale, Emerald naturally has inclusions that can make it brittle. A designer who knows their jewelry ingredients can set it in a ring that really protects this rare gemstone.

Peridot is the only gemstone that shares the same origin as diamond: deep in the Earth's mantle (a-la lava and meteorites), not in the crust. It's also one of the earliest recorded gemstones mined in history. It was the “gem of the sun” to Egyptians and to ancient Romans it deterred jealousy. On the topic of Rome, you'll see Dubini Jewellery's authentic ancient coins, set off by the juicy hues of peridot.