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Well, we tried. Really, we did. I hate to admit it, but Mother Nature won this one. We’re closing early due to the snow — safety for...

A great big thank you to all who came out this weekend to our trunk show with our friend and jewelry designer extraordinaire Vicente...

Vicente Agor is the first jewelry artist with whom I ever placed an order and we developed an instant rapport. Maybe it was the fact...

Ok, don’t get me wrong with what I’m about to say. I am completely supportive of all of the efforts that businesses and other...

One of the things that is really fun and interesting about my job is finding out which items and artists our customers like the best. ...

Two years ago, our shopping area received a great gift when OPM moved in! If you’ve shopped there before, then you know what I’m talking...

If you’re anything like me, you have some older pieces of jewelry sitting in your jewelry box that are doing just that… sitting in your...

Join us as we participate, along with a lot of other great retailers, in Mpls St. Paul magazines’s sponsored Boutique Week! We are all...

Thanks to the wonderful CRAVE book that came out this spring (check out the website at http://thecravecompany.com/minneapolis/), Sheila...

When I first saw Pamela Froman’s jewelry, I knew it really was unlike any other jewelry I had ever seen before and I am so proud to...

Suzy Landa began making jewelry for friends and family members at the age of 5 using colored telephone wire and fuzzy pipe cleaners until...

Chapter 2:  Ellen and Leah decide to attend the sessions of the Cool Store award winners (and who knows — we may even apply for this...

I first met Stephanie Albertson and was introduced to her jewelry in 2008. In what apparently was a tremendous mental lapse, I didn’t...

That spring/early summer ritual is upon us as it’s time to graduate! Some of my absolute favorite things in the store right now that...

We just unpacked some of the new beauties that are coming our way from Pamela Froman this summer!  While I was first drawn to the solid...

I got such a great surprise earlier this year when I went into the jewelry market.  Lisa Jenks, whose jewelry I have always loved and had...

Many of your favorites here at Excelsior & Grand are at it again with their first joint happening of 2010 with the “Spring Fashion...

Well, if the warm weather isn’t proof enough, the other sure sign that spring is here is that Max’s trunk show season begins this...

Ok, well maybe that’s a bit of an overstatement, as we haven’t changed who we are or what we’re about.  What we have changed, however, is...

Ok, so let’s be honest….it’s always chocolate-eating time around here! But who knew matzah could taste so good? We’re ready for the...