Nikki Smith:  

I live in Northern CA, married to Andy Smith, 3 sons: Jacob, Nathan & Micheal. Jacob married Tanessa with 2 children and they just had their 1st together- a little girl. Nathan, my middle son, married Yesenia and they have 1 little girl, 3 years old. Micheal is our 3rd, 22 yrs old, and single. We own 2 jewelry stores, one in Oroville and one in Paradise CA. We own a coffee shop that is right next door to our Oroville location--- Jacob and Tanessa manage our Paradise location, he is the jeweler and she runs the office. Nathan owns his own business "Hands of Time", he is our watch maker with accounts elsewhere. He loves working on the old mechanicals, Rolex and all high end movements---our best watch maker in all the years in business! Michael works at our Oroville store and floats whereever needed, he does our lazor engraving and computer work--yeah! Andy and I do all the custom work for both stores. I do the designing, wax carving, stone cutting, wire wrapping, stringing, etc...and Andy does designing, fabricating at the bench, all repairs and custom casting. All in all, we all make a great team. My one regret was not having 6 more kids so I could retire! When we got robbed and burned the week before Christmas of 2010, we decided to rebuild back to the original, the way it was in gold rush days of early 1900's. So Davy Jo came out and taught me how to do stained glass---LOVE IT! We did all the stained glass original to store plus some more. Got to go to work, so will finish later. It is 11-13-18 and what a horrible time we have had! Andy and I just had our 36-37th ( who the hell can remember) anniversary on 11-7-18. 11-8-18 fire and brimstone rained down on Paradise CA where we had a second jewelry store that ou...Expand for more