There is a meaningful difference between jewelry that is purchased and jewelry that is made, and in Manette’s downtown, that difference has a specific address. Two Sisters Fine Jewelry, located in Bremerton’s most charming neighborhood since 2004, is run by Deborah Hughes, a GIA Graduate Gemologist and bench jeweler with more than 30 years of experience who handcrafts a significant portion of her inventory herself, in the store, using tools and techniques that mass production has largely abandoned.
A Gemologist Who Makes What She Sells Deborah Hughes holds a graduate gemologist certification from the Gemological Institute of America, the most rigorous professional credential in the jewelry industry, covering diamond grading, colored stone identification, and the technical knowledge required to assess and work with fine materials accurately. What makes her unusual is that she doesn’t just evaluate and sell jewelry.
She makes it. Working in 14k and 18k gold, fine silver, and sterling silver, Deborah handcrafts rings, earrings, necklaces, bracelets, and pendants that incorporate fine freshwater pearls, natural gemstones, genuine Swarovski crystal, and handmade glass. The hammered details on her pieces are forged with high-quality German tools and polished to a high luster finish. Custom texturing is applied by hand. And the clasps, a detail most jewelers overlook entirely, are handcrafted by Deborah herself, designed to actually work well rather than frustrate the person wearing them.
“No two are exactly alike,” she writes of her work. “My work is the culmination of my love, skill, grit, endurance and giving.”
What Two Sisters Offers
Beyond Deborah’s own handcrafted line, Two Sisters Fine Jewelry carries a full selection of gold, diamonds, gemstones, sterling silver, and Citizen watches, a light-driven line that requires no battery and covers both classic and sporty styles for men and women.
The store also provides a complete range of in-house professional services that most independent jewelry stores in Kitsap County no longer offer: custom jewelry design from concept to finished piece, jewelry repair, watch repair, gemstone identification, and professional jewelry appraisals, all performed on-site by a GIA-certified gemologist with three decades of hands-on experience. For customers who have inherited pieces of unknown value or provenance, that appraisal capability alone is difficult to find anywhere else in the county.
Custom Design: What That Actually Means at Two Sisters
When Manette locals describe Two Sisters as the place that does “all custom work” with no conveyor-belt jewelry, they are describing a design process that begins with a conversation, not a catalog. Customers bring their vision, an engagement ring inspired by a family heirloom, a pendant that incorporates a meaningful stone, a bracelet designed for a specific wrist and a specific life, and Deborah translates that into a piece that cannot be found anywhere else because it was made for one person.
That process draws on the same GIA training that allows Deborah to look at a diamond or colored stone and tell you precisely what it is, what it’s worth, and whether it suits the setting you have in mind. For milestones that matter, engagements, anniversaries, graduations, significant gifts, that level of expertise changes the experience of buying jewelry from a transaction into a collaboration.
A Manette Institution
Two Sisters Fine Jewelry sits in downtown Manette, the neighborhood that stretches from 11th Street to Shore Drive along the eastern shore of Bremerton, a walkable, water-adjacent community that locals consistently describe as one of Kitsap’s most charming residential and commercial districts. The store has been part of that neighborhood’s identity for more than two decades, a tenure that speaks to the loyalty of its customers and the consistency of its work.
As we’ve covered in our growing series on Bremerton’s local business community, from Spread Supplies and Little Bee Home to Typewriter Fever, independent makers and craftspeople are what give Bremerton its character, and Two Sisters Fine Jewelry has been part of that character since 2004.
How to Visit
Two Sisters Fine Jewelry is located in the Manette neighborhood of Bremerton. The store can be reached at (360) 479-3877. More information about custom design, services, and the current collection is available at twosistersfinejewelry.com.
Deborah – if you’d like to share more about your custom design process, current collection, upcoming availability, or anything else Kitsap locals should know, reach out to us at TheKitsap.com/contact and we’ll update this feature. This space is yours too.
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