Alexandrite Pavé Wedding BandSeptember 2019 Alexandrite, 18 karat white gold Not quite a year after a friend of mine commissioned an alexandrite solitaire with which to propose to his girlfriend (she said yes!), he came back with nine adorable little alexandrites to make a matching wedding band. Alexandrite is an amazing stone, because it can look blue green by daylight or fluorescent light and purple or red by candlelight or incandescent light. We went with a classic open side

I was blessed to find a design as unique as she is

קומי לך רעיתי יפתי ולכי לך כי הנה הסתו עבר (kumi lach ra'yati yafati ul'chi lach

rolled back into a sheet

The rounded mushroom lip both softens the lines and gives me leverage to pry the tool out of the hardy hole when I'm finished using it

They came into our possession in a lot that contained many authentic pieces of Navajo jewelry

but I like the autumnal appearance given by the illusion of falling blossoms

Almandine garnet

With the caveat that of course Japanese and Chinese peoples/cultures/histories are not the same (although they are entwined)

עוד ינובון בשיבה דשנים ורעננים יהיו

November 2013

I fixated on squares everywhere

you come across a stone so beautiful that you need to let it speak for itself