Above Average: When Parents Find Out Their Daughter Makes Jewelry
Creating jewelry used to be an admirable, artistic sideline business. These days? It’s comedy fodder. (Warning: explicit language.)
Portlandia: She’s Making Jewelry
A chirpy musical number that follows a lead character’s path when, after many months of unemployment, he decides to start a home-based jewelry-making business.
Portlandia: Put a Bird On It
The Portlandia “making jewelry” episode arc continues with another attack on the creative choices of the average Etsy jewelry creator.
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Saturday Night Live: Holiday Jewelry from Pandora
This faux commercial, which aired on Saturday Night Live in December 2017, is a pretty brutal takedown of the charm giants. As the narrator intones, “Once you’ve bought her a Pandora bracelet, you can buy her one of these 60-dollar whatevers for every birthday, Mother’s Day and anniversary for the rest of her natural life”, the commercial shows a jewelry-box perspective view of a series of thorougly unexcited women opening their holiday gifts. Ouch.
Drew Barth: Why Jewelry Commercials are Made for Men
As the famous advertisement says, “Diamonds are forever”. But this guy finds himself in hot water with his girlfriend when he suggests another substance that is “forever”.
Love Actually: The Necklace Scene
Jewelry salesperson Rowen Atkinson (“Mr. Bean”) meticulously prepares a gift necklace for extremely hurried customer Alan Rickman. Painfully funny, with the emphasis on pain.
INSTORE: A Few Good Jewelry Jokes
And here’s one our own David Squires did a few years back, offering a melange of classic jewelry jokes.
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Four Decades of Excellence: How Wilkerson Transformed a Jeweler's Retirement into Celebration
After 45 years serving the Milwaukee community, Treiber & Straub Jewelers owner Michael Straub faced a significant life transition. At 75, the veteran jeweler made a personal decision many business owners understand: "I think it's time. I want to enjoy my wife with my grandchildren for the next 10, 15 years."
Wilkerson's expertise transformed this major business transition into an extraordinary success. Their comprehensive approach to managing the going-out-of-business sale created unprecedented customer response—with lines forming outside the store and limits on how many shoppers could enter at once due to fire safety regulations.
The results exceeded all expectations. "Wilkerson did a phenomenal job," Straub enthuses. "They were there for you through the whole thing, helped you with promoting it, helping you on day-to-day business. I can't speak enough for how well they did." The partnership didn't just facilitate a business closing; it created a celebratory finale to decades of service while allowing Straub to confidently step into his well-earned retirement.