For my birthday I received this lovely Brighton bracelet. I wore the bracelet to a Christmas party and all of a sudden it fell off my arm. I didn't think much of it, but then an hour or so later it fell off again.

Then I got worried: I certainly didn't want to lose this bracelet.

I took my bracelet to a Brighton store. One associate told me to buy a jewelry guard. I went to the nearby jewelry repair kiosk where I was told a guard would help. I went back to Brighton to see if they could send the bracelet into Brighton for repair. No go. "Brighton doesn't modify its bracelets," I was told.

But this associate did make a helpful suggestion: Go to a jeweler and replace to toggle closure with a lobster claw closure.

I remembered an art and custom jewelry store I had visited in Pineapple Grove in Delray Beach and decided to bring my bracelet there. Stacey, the jewelry designer at Spotted on 2nd, chose a lobster claw that matched my bracelet and replaced the toggle in 5 minutes.

The best surprise: Only cost me $4 plus tax. What a deal! Stacey also restrings necklaces and modernizes old jewelry.

Has anyone else had the problem I described with Brighton bracelets?

BTW, Spotted on 2nd gallery is having a 20 percent sale on it jewelry, art and crafts during Art & Jazz on Thursday, Jan. 29. So just don't spend your time on Atlantic Avenue; take a short walk down 2nd to visit Stacey. Well worth your while. -- Marcia "Bargain Hunter" Pounds

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