Mystical Moments
With Stones
I’m a jeweler by day. Weekends, I’m a stone wall builder. At my house, I have 500 feet of stone walls built over the last 30 years. Some are two feet high, some ten feet high. I love building stone walls. My property, thirty years ago, was mostly stone with small patches of lawn, bushes, and trees. I’ve had a good long time to dig, move, and assemble rock into my perfect walls. I have stairs and patios that are ideal for sitting on various levels of my property.
Now, to the mystical moments. It doesn’t happen every day. There are, however, moments as I am building a wall when I swear the gods of the heavens are sitting on my shoulders, and every rock I pick up slips into place like a puzzle piece. These are not the fronting stones, the rocks you can see, but the rocks that are hidden within the wall. I’ve had runs of setting rock that have lasted a full minute and a dozen rocks that simply slip into place perfectly. I call it a clicking-into-place-flow.
I once had a run of rock for five minutes that felt like their placement was preordained. When one of these runs of rock occurs, I feel like I’m in a trance. I try not to break the rhythm and just go with the flow. I love it when one of these mystical flow moments occurs. I don’t believe I recall this happening in 2023 or 2024. I’m sure when I am in the right mental state, it will return again.
This ring is called Angel with a Golden Halo. As a jeweler, I marvel at the precision, the alignment of form and shape, and some sense of mystical moments with stones come back to me. I know, though, that in the end, everything for the ring comes out perfectly because there is time for pre-arranged, perfect-sized gems. In stone wall building, there are only fleeting moments when all the elements seem to line up so well.
Why We Love This Ring
This ring is a visual delight. It starts with a pure blue sapphire. It’s surrounded by a bright yellow-gold halo. The halo is the ring’s second delight. It’s an element you will return to check out a dozen times a day and never be disappointed. There are two layers of white gold petals that look like the water in a fountain cascading out from a central point. Each petal has a diamond in the center. On the east and west sides, there is a little marquise-shaped slip with three little diamonds set inside each upsweep. The ring is all white gold except for the yellow halo in the center. The ring is awesome on the hand. It sits low, the surfaces are smooth. It’s a highly wearable, comfortable ring.
This is an Angelic Ring
With a Golden Halo
and a Glowing Blue Sapphire
The blue sapphire is light, airy, brilliant. The blue is silk ribbons in the hair: long, luxurious, flowing, not necessary, not needed to hold it all together, simply color at the center, color to catch the eye. The ring is white gold with a yellow gold halo around the center gem. We did not design this ring, I wish we had. We did not craft it, or even set the eighteen little white diamonds, and yet, we accepted it into our family of favorites immediately. Good design attracts, captures the eye, pulls you in and never lets go.
Why a Cross Sapphire is the Best
We love blue. We know blue. We live by the blue sea, beneath summer blue skies. Our business is located on a peninsula called Portland, surrounded by saltwater on three sides. We can feel the blue ocean pulsing with every tide. From the rooftop of our building, we can see the open sea. Binoculars show ships coming and going on a blue, blue sea.
We love blue sapphire: It is bright, brilliant and is amazingly durable. As the second hardest gem to diamond, it is a highly wearable gem, ideal for rings. We love blue sapphire… we love it so much that we have traveled to southeast Asia to find first-choice colors. We choose a lighter, brighter blue than most American jewelers because it shows up best under a wide range of real-world lighting conditions. Our blue sapphires look and perform best on everything from sunny days to a candlelit dinner for two.
We want your blue sapphire to dazzle you, dazzle your partner and everyone in any room you visit. Cross’ blue sapphires are the best.
