Raise your hand if you have a bunch of jewels locked in a safe collecting dust. Raise your hand again if you feel guilty for not even wanting to wear those dated baubles.
Cue Amanda Jaron, a local designer who has come up with an ingenious solution to make valuables go from outdated to up-to-date. Her “bling overs,” essentially jewelry makeovers, take diamond tennis bracelets that scream 1985 and heirloom treasures not quite your style and transform them into knockout pieces you’ll be excited to slip on.
“I wanted to do something ‘green,’ but really I was hoping to find a way to preserve the sentimental value,” she says. “Most are gifts commemorating an event or are inherited.”
The process starts with a meeting at her studio where Jaron says she wants it to feel more like girlfriends connecting over a glass of wine rather than a sales push.
In roughly an hour, she speaks with you about the stories behind the pieces and develops a new custom design that reworks the originals. And if they were from your hubby, she encourages you to bring him. “I’m here to make this an enjoyable and memorable experience of its own,” she says.
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