Book Review: Crazy About Jewelry
January 9, 2008 by Cyndi Lavin
Filed under Book & Magazine Reviews, Jewelry Business Tips, Jewelry Gifts
Crazy About Jewelry! The Expert Guide for Buying, Selling and Caring for Your Jewelry is your guide to all aspects of collecting, organizing, caring for, and even recreating your jewelry collection. This is not a book about designing and making jewelry techniques; rather it is a very complete and fun to read guide for the buyer and collector. Susan Eisen writes about:
- Ten common jewelry buying mistakes
- What to do with Grandma’s wedding ring
- Getting your significant other to get you a gift that you love
- Tips on cleaning, storing, and taking care of your collection
- How to make your jewelry more comfortable
- Tips for mixing and matching jewelry styles
There are several sections of the book that were really helpful to me. The first was the chapter on organizing your collection, where Susan takes you through the steps to determine what organizing style will work best for you. I also really liked the chapters on unusual ways to wear your jewelry and ways to redesign what you’ve got. Susan also has an online club for people who are “Crazy About Jewelry.” Altogether, I think this book is worthwhile, especially for those of us who amass huge quantities of jewelry as well as make it!
Alert**Alert**Alert
Free Book!!!
I will be “raffling off” a copy of this book to one lucky reader! Just leave me a comment about why you need this book and make sure your email address is correct, and one week from today I will draw a name from a hat!
I have lots of gemstones and loose jewelry. I would love to learn more on making and taking care of gold and silver jewelry. Your book sounds like a wealth of information. Thank you.
My husband, who in all other ways is a wonderful person, gave me space bags for Christmas a couple years ago (you know those bags that let you compress stuff down to make more space in your closet). I need this book, if only for the “Getting your significant other to get you a gift that you love” section. Seriously, it looks like an interesting, unusual read. Thanks!
I appreciate the reminder to enter for the book drawing this afternoon! I would love to own this book because I am darn curious about the specific catagory of “Getting your significant other to get you a gift that you love”! Woohoo! Thanks! Brenda
I am just starting out in making jewellery. I find it very rewarding adn it gives me stress relief, when I make different pieces. I always have had a love in different jewellery, especially costume jewellery. I would love to win a copy of this book as it would help me tremendously on different aspects of collecting, owning and making of jewellery.
After a dozen years as a practicing psychiatrist I want to branch out and find my “inner artist.” I play with clay (polymer) and would love to begin a jewelry business… “DrMom’s Clay Therapy.” Don’t you want to be a part of that???
Wow! It is great to hear how crazy you are about jewelry! I am Susan Eisen the author of the book and I want you to know that I am as wild about jewelry as you are. There is so much to know and it is a labor of love everyday in my store getting to know the people who’s jewelry we are redesigning and sprucing up. Don’t forget about joined the CRAZYABOUTJEWELRY CLUB located on my website crazyaboutjewelry.net. If you have any special questions, send them over! Look forward to more of your comments. SE
Thank you thank you thank you for all the entries! We’ve got a winner:
http://www.jewelryandbeading.com/2008/01/16/weve-got-a-winner/
i am from Mauritius and so could not anyway enter the draw. But I find the idea fantastic
I need/want to learn more…
The shine on the pieces make me smile
I need this book because I have all the supplies to make tons of jewelry I just can’t seem to come up with any of my own designs, HELP
at 3 it could be me.the book would be mine and I would be fine. thanks for the e-mail
Wow I would love to have it….