Announcement   Welcome to Ceres Studios, artists and purveyors of unique items for the discriminating aficionado. Particular areas of our expertise include jewelry, rock and mineral specimens, and accessories for gamers and pipe smokers.

We are a husband and wife team based out of the northern Dallas, Texas suburbs. Our studios consist of a full wood shop, a full lapidary shop, a robust metalsmithing shop, and a studio equipped for jewelry design and fabrication, leather working, stone polishing, painting, photography, and a variety of other creative endeavors.

Due to the challenges that we have had with the postal system in Italy we can not guarantee delivery times of any packages to Italy. Please do not contact us regarding non-delivery of your item shipped to Italy until at least six weeks from our confirmed date of shipment. Like all of our orders, once it is out of our hands we can not be responsible for the actions of our shipping partners.

A few quick notes regarding artwork, ownership, and copyrights:

1) By submitting artwork to Ceres Studios you acknowledge that you are either the legal copyright holder or have permission from the copyright holder to use that art in our custom project. Although we aren't likely to ever ask you to prove copyright ownership you agree to indemnify Ceres Studios and hold us harmless in any legal matter regarding artwork you have provided to us.

2) Any artwork created, designed, or modified by Ceres Studios for any of our projects remains the sole property of Ceres Studios and is not licensed to you for any purpose at all unless agreed upon in writing. We do not intend to claim ownership of any original artwork submitted to us by the artist or the artist's representatives. We only aim to protect our own creative work.

3) Ceres Studios retains the right to photograph any of our work and use those photos for any purpose in any medium regardless of the design or copyright ownership of the source artwork unless expressly agreed upon in writing. We also retain ownership rights to all of our photographs.

Bottom line - we won't be responsible for copyright ownership of anything you send us, the purchase of an item with custom artwork by us does not include rights to use the artwork, and we will take pictures of everything we make for our various web pages unless we agree not to in advance. We will happily work with you to make the item you've always dreamed of exactly the way you've dreamed of it. If we end up creating something amazing then we may want to use all or part of that design again in the future and are retaining the right to do so.