ABOUT US

Badali Jewelry Specialties, Inc. is a family owned and operated company located in Layton, Utah. We pride ourselves on our unique designs, high quality hand crafted jewelry products, and personal customer service. We currently produce over thirty specialized jewelry lines including officially licensed pieces with popular fantasy authors. Working directly with the author, we bring to life the precious metals and gems from their fantasy worlds into our reality. High quality materials are used for every item we create. We also offer custom jewelry in many of our designs to make each piece your own unique jewelry item.

Our Team

President and Master Jeweler

Paul J. Badali

April 29, 1951 — December 1, 2024

Paul J. Badali, President and Master Jeweler, had more than 40 years’ experience as an accomplished jewelry designer and gold and silversmith.  Paul had a BS in Zoology Teaching. Paul's designs were influenced by his love of fantasy and science fiction novels.  He had also been fascinated with gemstones and crystals since he was a boy.  Click here for more of Paul's story and how he came to create the One Ring of Power™.

Master Jeweler

Ryan Cazier

Ryan Cazier, Lead Jeweler, started out as an apprentice jeweler with Badali Jewelry.  He is now an accomplished gold and silversmith and talented jewelry designer.  His designs include the Earth, Air, Fire and Water Elven Element Bands, Thor's Hammer, Snake Eating Its Tail Ring. Ryan’s more recent designs are the Rings Of Men TM including the Witch-KingsTM Ring.  Ryan informs us all, that one day his evil plans to take over the world will succeed.  All hail the Cazier.

Project Manager/Jeweler

Hillarie Jill

Hillarie has a BFA in Photography and Film, so everyone was very surprised when the jewelry career path stuck. Hillarie is a jeweler, designer, and handles the social media when possible. When not at the jewelry bench, she helps promote sex education and sex positivity in SLC. She enjoys video games, cosplay, photography, table top board games, and frozen Sour Patch Kids. She has a very long back log of books that she should be reading/listening too, but is on a horror podcast kick and isn’t entirely sure how to get out of the existential hole she has found herself in. 

Hillarie has discovered the joy of doing "Old Lady Crafts" with her sibling while watching Murder, She Wrote.

If you were wondering, she would have chosen the Green Ajah. 

Assistant Jeweler

Justin Oates

Office Manager

Minka Hole

Minka is a lifelong nerd that has always had a love of art, music, and creating things with her hands. Growing up with four brothers, she often found herself getting into the same things they did, like comic books, video games, fantasy novels, and nerdy movies. She dreams of the day that science will find a way to make a functioning holo deck so she can visit all the amazing worlds she has seen and read about, but until then, she is content to help create jewelry that can be enjoyed by many others like her, bringing little pieces of those worlds into our own. She originally started in the offices of Badali Jewelry, helping with shipping, but quickly moved over to becoming an apprentice jeweler. After a stint of time away where she learned leather working and prop making while working on the CW series, "The Outpost", she spent some time working at the Red Cross until she finally found her way back to the offices of Badali Jewelry where she now works directly with customers and authors.

Apprentice Jeweler & Social Media

Josie Smith

Office Dog

Lilith