Chữ Nôm Birthdate BraceletsDecember 2016 14 karat white gold A good friend of mine commissioned these bracelets for his wife to celebrate their two sons. He had seen the Princess Cuff that I'd done in the early Aughts, and wanted something similar. His wife is Vietnamese, so we used the ch nm characters for the numerals in their sons' birthdates to make up the shanks of the bracelets. Modern Vietnamese is, of course, written in a French influenced Latin script. While it isn't

15 carat champagne sapphire

unexpected changes

circa 1988

"For God so loved the world

For years I'd been grabbing coat hangers out of people's closets

the peach-orange glow is beautifully reflected by the polished bronze interior of the flame

We took the first line of the Birkat Kohanim

Not to be confused with cubic zirconium

Almandine garnet

and together we found the story that created this amazing piece

is essentially a secular light and may be enjoyed at will whether it is lit last or lit in order to light the other flames

and for banishing all negativity in favor of operating only from a place of positivity