A fun and meaningful way to create a jewelry legacy!

by Deborah J. Koorey
"Crazy About Jewelry Stories!"
Jewelry The Secret Time Traveler

Jewelry: The Secret Time Traveler

The Art of Creating a Meaningful Jewelry Legacy

Introduction Excerpt

I have a piece of jewelry I call, “My Beating Heart”.

One day I will pass this wonderful piece of jewelry down to my children with a message. That message will explain why I created this heirloom for them to ponder and touch. I envision my great-great-grandchildren seeing a picture of me, and being told my name as they look at the beautiful rainbow of colors and touch the smooth softness of the gemstones and gold. They will hear the words I left for them, from a long time ago, and they will know not only what life meant to me, but become connected to the very personal history we share as a family.

As a jeweler for many years, I have heard the most amazing stories. Almost every person I meet has some story to pass to the future. These kinds of stories are alive with meaning, full of unexpected twists and turns, and in many cases, just plain fun. In my opinion, whether these stories are completely true or part fable, their main intention is to convey the values, joys or sorrows of the speaker and the house they come from.

That's why I created this book. To find ways to awaken and equip as many people as possible to write their personal stories down, and attach them to jewelry articles or other heirlooms. By attaching stories to jewelry appraisals we encourage a greater catalog of human experience for our historic world family to share. To write the stories we know for coming generations is to respectfully bow to our past, and lovingly nod to the future with a richer historical perspective.

What stories will you leave behind?

My Beating Heart

Jewelry The Secret Time Traveler

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What you will find in this book . . .

This book is presented in 14 chapters. The first 13 chapters are designed to contain a true story that has occurred during my professional years as a jeweler. The names have been changed, and certain details altered for privacy. These chapters embrace thoughts of great concern for those wishing to establish a meaningful jewelry legacy or plan to disburse jewelry or other heirlooms equitably for estate purposes. At the end of each chapter, there are page numbers indicating where you’ll find the worksheet(s) in chapter 14 that correlate to the subject matter in the book. You may decide to use these worksheets after you read each chapter, or complete them all together at the end of the book as part of the Jewelry Time Traveler (JTT) Worksheet System.

Chapter 14 contains the entire JTT Worksheet System which includes worksheets and instructions that are tailored to use with this book or at my workshops. This step-by-step program teaches you how to analyze your private collection on your own. There are 15 worksheets altogether. The last 5 are optional and not part of the core legacy program. The key worksheets for those of you who have extensive knowledge of your jewelry or other heirlooms would be the JTT Collection Organizer and the JTT Heirloom History Form. Once the basic instructions are understood, you’ll probably use only two or three of the worksheets as a whole, using the rest as reference.

I hope you benefit by taking the time to read this book and experiment with the worksheet system. Its purpose is to help you dispel negative beliefs and possibly the emotional stress surrounding this oh so very important task. You are not alone, as we all face this issue at one time or another. The key is to open up and look at an old process in a new way. So, let’s explore the secrets of jewelry time travel together as we become acquainted with the magical art of creating a meaningful jewelry legacy.

DEBORAH J KOOREY

Author, Goldsmith

This worksheet system will bring new hope to the daunting task of organizing your collection!

Jewelry The Secret Time Traveler

The Art of Creating a Meaningful Jewelry Legacy

So, Dear Reader, if you want to feel what I felt, read Jewelry: The Secret Time Traveler and try to find some jewelry or heirloom article in your possession that is unmistakably and magically yours. Keep on reading if you want the adventure of traveling through time to lay permanent claim to your memories, no matter where they take you, because they may not only lift and heal you, but they can hold the power of immutable love. After you have done this, record, record, record what you have learned for those who follow!
Peter Hargitai
Poet Laurate

Excerpts from the Foreword

. . . My family and I were on the run. I was all of nine when we found ourselves tramping through desolate, icy fields fleeing from the relentless onslaught of Russian tanks that had savaged Budapest. Under the cover of darkness we were desperate to escape and make it across the border to Austria and freedom. We brought nothing with us except the clothes on our backs.

. . . My mother threw herself on me to shield me. I hung on to her so fiercely that somehow I ripped the pendant from her neck. I was hardly aware of it, but I was pressing the necklace with the aquamarine stone into my hand as if my life depended on it  . . .

by PETER HARGITAI

Jewelry The Secret Time Traveler

ORDERING

There are three options to purchase:

  1. PRINT copy of Jewelry The Secret Time Traveler –  $22.95
  2. DIGITAL version of the book – $22.95
  3. DIGITAL Worksheet System Packet – $6.95

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