The MeriTomasa's Treasures Factory

Being a modern online jeweler has its advantages and its benefits and the last one has been to join the crowdfunding trend. I have opted for Kickstarter, a crowdfunding website based in Brooklyn New York specialized in creative projects. Kicstarter is famous for financing independent films, music, comics, video games or... artisan jewelry with a chic touch like my Treasures Factory.

Better late than never! After another long year in which The MeriTomasa's Treasures Factory has not stopped blowing magical smoke from its four chimneys, I close the ovens and give some holidays to the blowtorch, the sharpener, the shipyard, the rolling mill, my burins and the gnomes of the north and the witches of the south who help me in my day-to-day tasks. We are on vacation!

Mi Coleción Tiritas la pensé para endulzar esas puyitas que a veces te lanza la vida, y para echarle una sonrisa a cada herida. Y he vendido un buen puñado así. Pero de cada tres que salen de mi taller, hay dos que son para unas clientas muy especiales. Muchas de ellas enfermeras, y otras muchas farmacéuticas... y otras muchas del sector de la sanidad.

You often ask me how to care for and clean the jewelry that comes out of The MeriTomasa's Treasures Factory. In a previous post I explained how to clean your silver jewelry. In this post I complete the series with my best tricks to clean and care for your gold jewelry.

Many times you ask me how to care for and clean the silver jewelry that comes out of The MeriTomasa's Treasures Factory: in this post I will tell you the most common tips and my best tricks.

More news! You can now buy at The MeriTomasa's Treasures Factory from the 28 countries of the European Union. After testing my first international shipments in recent months and making all the adjustments on my website, you can now make your purchases online directly on my website from any country in the Union.

Surely you have seen in a lot of movies or series the typical "gold nuggets" that miners look for in the interior of the mountains or in the rivers that erode those same mountains. And surely you know that those "gold nuggets" are yellow. So... where does the "rose gold" or "white gold" that we use in jewelry come from?

Surely you are familiar with the "18K gold" (or 18-karat or 18 carat), but... and what is a K, karat or carat? Is a carat a kilo as they say in Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru, Bolivia and some other countries in Latin America? Is a carat a kilo of gold and is it said that because it weighs much more than a kilo of silver or any other metal? Putting the one and the other together, that's why it is said "who has a friend, has a carat"?