Los Gatos resident Jeanette Blacy, a third-generation jeweler and authorized gemologist, is celebrating 20 years of doing enterprise in Outdated City.

Blacy’s Vault of Los Gatos, a full-service jewellery store specializing in customized jewellery styling by in-house designers and goldsmiths, will likely be holding a particular exhibiting of one in all their favourite designers, Christopher Designs, on Nov. 4-5, to have a good time this milestone. Appointments for this occasion are by reservation solely.

After all, you’ll be able to at all times reserve one other time to fulfill with Jeanette and her crew and see all of their branded collections, which embrace Memoire, Lika Behar, A Hyperlink, Afarin, Roman+Jules and extra.

Blacy obtained began within the jewellery enterprise 47 years in the past, courtesy of her mom.

“My mother’s household got here to California from Boliver, MO,” says Blacy, who has a gemologist diploma from the Gemological Institute of America. “Her uncle was a watchmaker throughout WWI. She helped them as a bookkeeper, after which labored for jewelers in San Diego. My mother and father moved to Los Gatos in 1960, and my mother managed a jewellery retailer in Cupertino. Sooner or later, all people was sick with the flu and I obtained recruited to work the counter. I’ve been within the biz ever since; I suppose you might say it’s in my DNA.”

Rising up in Los Gatos, Blacy and her twin sister Janet had kin in Placerville who they beloved to go to.

“We might dig within the foothills and discover beads,” says Blacy. “It was an Indian treasure trove. We might make jewellery and promote it to the hippie jeweler in Outdated City. We might promote the items for $5 or $10 after which go to the Wine Cellar to drink coke and eat French bread. No, my mother didn’t know!”

Blacy’s aesthetic guides her in designing jewellery for shoppers. “Earlier than we start the design course of, I ask them to carry the piece they put on probably the most, so I can determine methods to make one thing that may work along with what they have already got. It’s necessary to think about measurement and elegance, and whether or not they have a tendency towards fashionable or classic.”

Requested about traits, Blacy says pearls have positively seen a rise in reputation due to all the eye paid to the royals of late. “Pearls are basic; everybody ought to have a strand of pearls. It’s a primary.”

She notes that rose gold could be very robust, however yellow gold is on development, particularly in present bridal. Additionally, she says, “Oval diamonds are extremely popular.”