Two of light hearts, laughter, the gift of service, and old style nature loving spirits. 

For Jill’s ring we focus in on the heart and this constant openness to giving, to sharing, to stepping into the present. This is valuable above anything else.  The feeling of being filled up, through emptying out.  Filled up through giving.  Filled up through offering time and talents willingly.  This thorough concept we cherish through the visual of open space.  A natural, organic shape that feels as though it grew from the inside out.  As if it gifted itself into existence.  A precious gemstone stands in as the ‘offering’ itself.  It is paused in time as it passes between its internal and external state . . . the process of filling up by emptying out, of giving.

Silliness and playfulness infiltrate present moments of life.  That is its nature.  The present moment requires connection, and connection removes distraction.  This ring is designed to be elegant, simple, and out of one’s mind.  It lies low on the finger, is lightweight, smooth for comfort, and eager to take part in countless present moments to come.

Narrative Design through The Story Of Two custom process.

Custom ring setting designed for a stunning Marquise white diamond.  Three stacking wedding rings were designed to fit aside the solitaire setting.  The stacked forms are showcased in yellow, white, and rose gold to create a gradient aesthetic.  Responsibly sourced Australian champagne diamonds circle the hand-carved eternity ring.

Wild elegance.  An adventurous spirit and balanced aesthetic embody the depth that is built into this unique design.  A natural twist travels along an organic stone shaped ring to embrace its raw gem.  Straight from the earth, the ultimate source of inspiration, this solitaire ring honors the truth of the wild at heart.

Origins:  18 karat recycled yellow gold, raw uncut grey diamond

Spontaneity

Twisting vines spiral and arc around their environments.  They link up with other plants and are able to evolve with other's growth patterns and movements.  When their foundation shifts or grows, they don't snap with resistance; instead, a twisting vine evolves, stretches, bends, and lengthens with its surroundings.  This is a beautiful way to live.  May you offer this to moments ahead and find lightness with this natural system of change and transformation.

Truth

Grounded in the foundation of the past with a consistent and forged history: a simple ring is transformed with new energy for the changes ahead.  A traditional arcing symbol of marriage.

Open Space

As the two straight bands rest together, the illusion of arcs appear, creating two areas of open space.  This part of the ring will be completed by you.  This space is left open for new life, change, and breath to fill.

Intertwined

The spiraling vine twists around the foundation ring, bringing new light to deep roots.

One Day at a Time

This ring is humble yet elegant, durable and strong, perfectly imperfect with natural and refined texture, effortless and deliberate, low profile and spin-able, completely interesting in form, as sculpture.

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Originally designed for a nurse preparing to travel for a relief effort, this piece evolved into obtaining a special talent.  Because of the way it is constructed, a small bit of space hovers between the finger and the outer ring near each 'crossing' portion.  This extra space allows for a consistent fit as the finger slightly expands and contracts with temperature changes.  Its spin-able nature and non-intrusive design lends itself well to one who plans to change the world.

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Narrative Design through The Story Of Two custom process.

Vocalist from band, Vox Vidorra, laughs with her white quartz, raw sapphire, garnet crystal, silver rings.  She wears a paper, eucalyptus leaf, and brass headdress.

Shift ring and Budding Branch wedding bands shown in recycled 18k yellow gold with recycled white diamonds.

Coil ring, geometric ring, and the Nomad Sash Necklace shown on Yogi, Jessica.  Find her leading retreats in Bali, India, or among these tall Michigan grasses.

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“A strand of three is not easily broken."  A beautifully simple concept with deep intentions woven within.  With spiritual roots, the form of this ring begins to grow deliberate meaning.  The Peak Ring form in itself rises up, it is growing and up-lifting.  Its materials are layered.  The most precious of metals are on the inside, similar to the golden glow of ones heart and soul.  Much like love, the focus is on the interior beauty.  These metals create a gradient of color in reference to motion and constant change, which is the very essence of life.  Evolution and growth within a blooming relationship is essential and welcomed.  This ring has been designed to be highly wearable, comfortable, and ready to live life with its wearer.  Its nesting parts mirror the elegant fit of Emilie and Kirk.  When worn, a tiny bit of space exists between the golden peak and Emilie's finger.  This is space for new input into the relationship, for fresh breath, and more and more laughter. 

Narrative Design through The Story Of Two custom process.

Connection : with the natural world, with silent moments, with one another. You two are on the same rhythm and that rhythm syncs with the magic of the wind, water, sky. Your respect of the greater cycle of the seasons and the landscape relates so beautifully to the connection that you two share : solidified yet ever shifting. Strong yet gentle.

You mention the significance of the sandhill crane. Such a powerful yet modest bird. Committed, creative, and grounded. It seems as though it has evolved straight out of the great cycle of the seasons. Visually, its body transitions seamlessly through four stages : the focal point of the eyes and colored feathers, then to the smooth and elegant neck. From here it flows into gentle overlapping feathers and then tapers into strong textured legs. It carries this natural grace throughout its life and stoically shares this presence with its partner. These continually shifting forms and textures are shared with our seasons and the ever changing landscape of our north country. Each element is needed to balance and compliment the others.

It seems that Emily’s ring should carry the stillness present in your perpetual openness to the natural world … Your rooted spiritual relationship to the earth balance … Your powerful yet modest connection to one another and the respect you share of greater interwoven cycles of nature.

While encompassing those concepts, this ring will be durable, comfortable, and ready for any and all adventures. It is strong, potent in intention, and gently integrates with its future wearer. The ring’s forms reflect the sandhill crane’s flowing forms and textures. These represent the shifting seasons and the gentle rise and fall of each. Atop the ring, rests an oval star sapphire. Just as the crane’s eyes blend into its red feathers, this stone will mesh with it’s white gold environment. It is silver-white in color and shifts toward the blue side : recognizing sky, Lake Superior, Emily’s eyes. Smooth to the touch and gentle in aesthetic, yet under certain light circumstances, a star reflects back, one of nature’s effortless gifts. Following the ring along its side, it flows through smooth form, into overlapping feathers into a solid foundation at the base. Among the feathers there are two rose gold inlays. Mimicking the occasional orange feather on a crane, these are the simple moments that you two find together, full of harmony and perfection, they are the most potent and memorable.

Growth out of truth and absolution for what is genuinely real.

This ring is the growth of new growth; a sprouting bud . two buds . two of you . buds full of potential.

Buds fed with expansive love, ideas, creation, family, and the being that the two of you create when you're together … buds that are destined to open in purity, truth, and beauty.

One stem supports two individual souls vibrant through your shared spreading roots.

This ring has layers.  The depth that the two of you bring to each other is sculptural.  Light and shadow reveal personality through surface sketches.

Your buds are clear and open, revealing Jessie within.  She is the gem; she is what is important.  She is the potential that these forms represent.  She completes this ring.

Narrative Design through The Story Of Two custom process.

For two who enjoy knowing their tiny roll in the efforts of the entire universe. This ring has been hand carved to embrace unexpected transitions, places, and creatures, as well as texture, sculpture, and high contrasts. Wear this ring with an open mind...and observe as all continues to fall into place as it will ... so you can simply feel loved, free, and enjoy life.  This ring holds texture created through organically placed repetition.  It is a rhythm and form of movement that seems to fit innately...and just feels right.   The Tiny Universe ring carries fair trade Australian fancy sapphires: tiny in the scheme of things, and almost a discovery to find.

Narrative Design through The Story Of Two custom process.

Rivers are powerful.  Simply and truthfully, they do not stop, their flow is constant, and is never the same twice.  Rivers influence their surroundings in a beautiful and transformative way.  Ancient rock structures are carved into sculptures revealing a vast depth of layering.  Sediment, seeds, and life are carried effortlessly to awaiting nurseries.  Plant life is completely welcomed at the river's side and encouraged to be incredibly prosperous, while a broad collection of animal species are drawn to gather nearby.  

Beyond the character of the river itself, the event of visiting one is profound.  One may recall the mind-quieting sounds of a river.  The rushing, the calming, the clear water's interaction with the river's stones.  Delicate leaves may drift with the current, and somehow keep only one of their sides wet, while the other basks in the light.  Bird songs fill the peripheral sounds and tree roots expose themselves on the banks.  These are the details that make a river's side an escape, a shift in mindset, a glimpse of clarity and openness.

A cultivated relationship, like a flowing river, is powerful.  It weaves around obstructions, inspires and encourages its onlookers, will continue to transform, to draw beauty and life close by, will carve out a nurturing environment, and with time will reveal the depth and beautiful layering of its structure to one another.  Rivers continue on.  And on.

Narrative Design through The Story Of Two custom process.

Once upon a time …  in a land not so unfamiliar, two seeds were born.  They grew from the same stem yet were placed so far apart.  For the next twenty some years the seeds wandered and traveled in search of the other.   Now, everyone knows that when a stem grows for two, it can only bloom when the space is filled.  Many parts must fit perfect to create a beautiful whole.

On occasion, a very lovely seed would come along, but humbly, and only on the account of love, these two seeds knew that there was only one fit that would fit all the way … and that's that.  So the search went on.  It continued with the purpose of finding the ultimate resting space of these two souls.

The two seeds could only imagine each other's existence and each evolved in their own ways along the great mysterious journey.  From the north western united states to places down under, the universe carried each seed through all the right happenings.  They floated through rough valleys to high views … and all clearly for a deep spiritual purpose.

Without any notice, through a pleasantly unexpected fellow pal … at exactly the right time, in just the right season, in precisely the correct place … the breeze suddenly shifted.  The sounds changed to that of sweet music and the excited rhythms were all both seeds could feel.  The breeze changed once again in the cool evenings of March on a starry Michigan beach.  And again, and again … the breeze was spiraling and unfurling into a beautiful bloom.

Naturally, each seed could see through the other … a transparent fitting full of liberation and gracefulness.  The spaces around them created a richness and vastness unimaginable until now. 

So that's the way they went and stayed.  The two seeds, side by side, shared their petite stem full of life from the deepness of the ocean and into the vastness of the universe.  They grew together, evolved around, and into each other.

Narrative Design through The Story Of Two custom process.

Each ring is a slice of time, a 'fingerprint' from the life of the same tree; a documentation of that tree's growth patterns and experience of a particular moment.  With perfectly imperfect character, each ring's unique pattern builds detail and depth.  Carved directly from open grain wood and cast into recycled precious metals, each piece, like a fingerprint, is truly one of a kind.  The wood is formed into a natural stone shape, and brought to a brush finish, leaving the interesting growth markings to live onward.

Origins:  recycled 950 palladium, 18 karat recycled yellow gold

Our Story grew straight from the heart.  Words only abstract its roots, and can't possibly explain the personal inspirations from its past, but it can be shared none the less.  James's ring carries the Universe, it seems.  With a layered rock foundation on one half, graceful yet strong and gazes across the gap at its textured branch that grows organically around his finger.  The surface palette spans the rawness of one's open soul toward the refined polish of intention.  This gradient: embracing tool marks and imperfections are purposefully pulsed throughout the ring.  Plenty of fluid open space surrounds the finger as change and fresh ideas are beyond accepted. 

Rosemary's ring is a detail of James's ring through binoculars.  It is a stone.  A rock.  Yet is carved straight from open grained wood, leaving organic texture throughout the 18k yellow gold.  In the opposite side rests two tiny fancy sapphires from Australia.  One more blue, and the other more green in color.  They sit together.  With a  polished and smooth interior, expanding to hammered texture in the silver, this piece is elegantly simple, calm, and ready for stacking with future creations as our story flows with change and growth.

Narrative Design through The Story Of Two custom process.

 A gesture of gentle authenticity, the drifting feather speaks to the one who pauses to notice.

Strong yet delicate, natural and lasting, the feather's floating fall illustrates its curving path through the air.  It comes in its own time, to rest upon the supple sprouts and leaves on the trail's edge.  There it is, meant for its finding by the one who remembers to look up, to smell the fresh soil, who sees the sharing of the forest space among the countless existing cycles and systems … for the one who takes the moment to appreciate the perfectly imperfect symmetry and patterns in the drifting feather.  This drifting feather ring is a carving of that moment.  It's noticing, it's finding, it's two souls finding home within another.

Origins: 14 karat recycled white gold