Take professional looking jewelry pictures at home

I've been working on building up a small jewelry business for a year now and I've been struggling with photographing my jewelry for almost as long.  I've photographed some pieces 3 times now and they're about to get a fourth because I've learned the secret to good jewelry photography: K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Stupid), lol.  In this post I'm going to show you how to inexpensively take pictures of your jewelry at home that look like they were done in a professional studio.