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Show The Women's Room By Kate McCutchan two courses through the Cemological Institute of America, learning how to appraise stones, and is now learning the techniques of design from Lew Sadlir, University of Utah graduate in Jewelry Design and in-house designer for The Family Jewles for the last year and a half. Mary's goal is to have her own designs to show by the next Arts Festival. "And with the slow start of our season this year, I should have lots of time to work in that direction," she laughed. "That's where all my energy will be going." Lots of her energy has already gone toward expanding expand-ing the service and sales of her business. She offers a complete picture framing facility with two custom designers to frame your every picture. She has a fine gallery of local -artists' creations; everything from watercolors to hand-carved turkey eggs to sculpture to scrimshaw. Not to mention all that gold and silver, rubies and diamonds, cloisonne, cloi-sonne, and crystal. Perhaps a little incense and myrrh? Whatever your gift-giving or self-indulgent needs, a little trip to The Family Jewels would do you good. Especially if it happens to be vour birthday. Starting in A recipe for success must include goals, stamina, imagination and an awareness aware-ness of the environment surrounding you. Mary Doty of The Family Jewels has all these qualities, plus an added bonus: as of October 1st of this year, she is the sole owner of a flourishing business that adds a little sparkle to Park City life. "I've always been very business-oriented," Mary explained. "When I first came to Park City ten years ago, I was active as a real estate agent and I still keep my license current. I also managed The Forge, a bar that used to exist in the lobby of the Claimjumper. Then I managed a youth hostel (affectionately called The Palace Flophouse) which was in the Miner's Hospital." Mary lived in the old hospital for 4 or 5 years, occassionally leaving Park City to go adventuring. On one of her trips, she met the man who was to become her partner in a small but enterprising jewelry business. Mary and Dick traveled to Taos, New Mexico where they began dealing in Indian jewelry -silver and turquoise. The rooms of the Miner's Hospital Hospi-tal became filled with beads . and employees, stringing away, sending the resulting creations out across the country on a wholesaling two weeks, Mary will be giving away a creation made of garnet, the birthstone for January. Those of us born in December will have a long wait for our chance at some turquoise, but it will be worth waiting for. In the meantime, Mary has arranged ar-ranged with local artists Dawna Barton and Jim Telford to do shows for her this year; she also commissioned commis-sioned Jim Ford to create a Park City Poster - his fourth in a series of ski town posters. Thanks for that added sparkle in our lives, Mary, and here's wishing you good fortune and a bit of sparkle for yourself! basis. The Family Jewels was officially established in August Au-gust 1975 with a shop on Main Street and a shot at the business generated by the Arts Festival weekend. Success was in the cards. The business thrived and in 1977, it expanded - to be housed in its current location at the historic foot of Main Street. Mary has grown along with her business. Having nurtured the enterprise enter-prise from its beginnings in Indian stones to its handling of fine gems and diamonds, she has increased her knowledge and skills through intensive training. She took |
