Jewelry That Takes Us Beyond Ourselves
Even in our increasingly secular world, a beautiful crucifix or religious item worn close to the skin is a choice to make space for something beyond ourselves.
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Micro-Mosaic Jewelry: the Ultimate Souvenirs
How I adore Victorian micro- mosaic jewelry! Created as souvenirs of the European Grand Tour, these elegant brooches, rings, or earrings combined local craft and commemorative value.Read now -
In Praise of the Cocktail Ring
I love big, bold, beautiful pieces because I believe the time for living is now, every moment. Grey, rainy day? Find your light in a halo of warm jewels, a center stone the size of a marble. Spending Saturday night in? Gaze into the fire and watch as a ballerina ring of diamonds takes symbolic flight, reflecting around the room.Read now -
Letting In the Daylight: Plique-a-jour in Daylight Savings Time
Plique-a-jour work reminds us, particularly in autumn, that what is beautiful passes through fire, that what is fragile holds its own magic and strength, letting in the daylight, even as these days shorten and we move into a darker season of leaves falling, the color of crushed candies.Read now -
Time Should Always Pass So Beautifully
Read nowThe Romantic poet John Keats meditates on a Grecian urn in his famous eponymous ode and calls it a "foster-child of silence and slow time." The scene upon the ode is always in action, yet never completed; the lovers depicted...
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Keep It Like a Secret: Lockets
The antique locket is a gift that asks its receiver to honor what has come before, to keep a new possibility safe and loved and, if you like, secret.Read now
