Becoming Katerina Roukouna Jewelry Katerina Roukouna                  I fell in love with handmade jewelry creation a little over 38 years ago, and I have ever since been involved with this art, as I like to recognize it.  The journey started in 1984, at my first workshop where I started making jewelry while studying at the Gemmological Association of Great Britain, from where I graduated with a bachelor's in Gemmology in 1987. During the course of my studies, I participated in seminars on the evaluation of precious stones (i.e. pearls, diamonds, rubies, emeralds, sapphires, opals, topazes, corals, ambers, tourmalines, etc.) at A. Rϋppenthal’s workshop in Idar Oberstein, Germany. I fell in love with handmade jewelry...