All of my beautiful jewelry is hand-made by me in my studio in New Orleans. I enjoy mixing silver with pearls and gemstones and sometimes I work with Gold-Filled material, which is when the 14Kt gold is adhered to a base metal using heat and pressure, and then it is rolled out until 1/20th of the weight is 14Kt gold. It's way more gold than a plating process and it will last for years.