Mrs. Gottrocks Fine Jewelry and Gifts Online Sold,
Manassas, Virginia Gottrocks Business
Planning Name Change to Ballerina Cowgirl

The owners of Mrs. Gottrocks Fine Jewelry and Gifts in Manassas, Virginia announced that they have sold their online business of the same name, and are restructuring their Manassas brick and mortar business from a retail storefront to a design studio with customer hours by appointment only. Ms. Suko, primary owner and GIA graduate with a Graduate Jeweler Gemologist degee, suffers from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia, and was forced to sell the online business when it became so successful, and she so ill, she could no longer handle the workload, or even supervise. Undaunted, she is designing a line of jewelry called Ballerina Cowgirl, while her partner and husband, Mr. Levy is venturing back out onto the web with a scaled down version of the Gottrocks site under the new jewelry line name. This new site will support many of the same features as the Gottrocks site, but on a more casual, manageable level, which will allow Ms. Suko to design while Mr. Levy worries about the web work. The decision to change the company name to match the jewelry line seemed appropriate as Ms. Suko did not wish to confuse her local and longtime customers, or her vendors with there being two Mrs. Gottrocks.

The website is scheduled to open for sales in July 2004, and to have its informational features in place by the end of the year.