A Love Affair With
Fine Wrought Iron Gates
My brother and I used to discuss our fascination with fine wrought iron work. Our love of the light and dark, shadow and light, swirls, curls, knew no end. We admired old Victorian furniture, deep carving, acanthus leaf detailing. Years later I had fences built. Bought antique fence section from New Orleans for the end of my driveway. And bought a wrought iron fence from Egypt to surround part of a garden on my highest point of land that I called The Sky Garden, a place to watch summer clouds drift by.
Craig and I discussed how we had no living relatives who loved scroll work detail like we did. We were puzzled by how we were both so deeply moved by great wrought iron work and how we could stand for hours outside of a great estate admiring the wrought iron fence between the entrance pillars.
The Sweetest, Cutest,
Little Diamond Ring Ever Made
This is a long introduction to one of the smallest, most delicately detailed rings we make. It is a ring I admire like fine wrought iron gate work. If I owned this ring and wore it, I would log hundreds of hours of gazing at the scroll work and the center chamber within which the Royal Ideal is set and suspended.
One-hundred and one-hundred-fifty years ago most ladies and many men’s rings were set within a highly polished, reflective, six-petal flower-like center like this ring.
How might this ring be worn, right or left hand? Right hand, ring finger, because you’re one out of the every three-hundred-fifty people who is so deeply moved by the fine wrought iron work and exquisite Victorian detail and would love to have a ring, this grapevine detailing, with you everyday forever. Left hand. Yes, of course, it can be an engagement ring.
The diamond may be small, 1/10 carat, it has a big presence though within its reflective flower. Kittens are cute. A tiger is just too big to be a good house pet. This is the sweetest little diamond ring ever made. It’s Goldilocks-perfect exactly as it is made. Change the gem size, bigger or smaller, and it becomes less of a ring. Trust me, it’s perfect.
