Julie Claire DeVoe
Julie is responsible for the design and manufacture of our jewelry. She has earned her Certificate in Pearls and Pearl & Bead Stringing from the Gemological Institute of America (GIA). She has studied jewelry design, fabrication, and repair at the Kendall School of Art and Design in Grand Rapids and with Blaine Lewis at New Approach in Virginia Beach, VA.

Julie repairs all fine jewelry, re-strings pearls on knotted silk, and will work on sterling silver as well as vintage and costume jewelry. She can solder your broken chains, replace missing stones, size your rings, and generally make all of your jewelry whole and happy again.

Here is some of her work:

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Cliff Yankovich
Cliff is a GIA Diamonds Graduate. He also completed jewelry design training using the Digital Goldsmith at GemVision in 1999. We have contacts that allow us to get any size and shape diamond to meet your needs. Cliff makes diamond shopping very easy for you.

In his spare time, Cliff is a free lance writer for a number of small publications. His work has been published in the New York Press, San Antonio Current, and the national humor magazine Funny Times.

You can read some of his ramblings on his blog:

Cliffs Riffs Here

Here they are on a very early (and chaperoned) date.

Climbing around on some beautiful rocks in Utah.

Pastor Lew married us on the Lowell Showboat.

The rest of the family.

Son James and his bride Jessica.

They are now the proud parents of

Hunter (seen below styling in his monkey suit):

Chef Ella - who is back in Grand Rapids now

after learning her craft all over the US. She owns and operates Ella's Coffee & Cuisine just down the street from us:

Ellas on Facebook

Lil Amy -

One of the few times I have ever seen

Amy in a dress - old picture, but I love it!

Otter is a rare Norwegian Golden Beagle.

Bill is a couple fries short of a Happy Meal.

(He is a friend to mice everywhere.)