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Name: My Best Friend and Our Lavender Farm Necklace

Style#: CT9224

Precious Metal: 14K Yellow Gold

Gems: 16 World Amethysts, 6 Tanzanites, and 6 Blue Sky Topaz

Chain: 17″ 14K Yellow Gold

Price: $788

Matching Earrings Available

My Best Friend and Our Lavender Farm Necklace

Style #: CT9224

My Best Friend
and Our Lavender Farm

In college, we dreamed. After class, we dreamed. At lunch, we dreamed. We often talked until midnight. As the four years passed, our dreams settled on Europe. Neither of us has ever been. We both wanted to go.

I’m Sara. My best friend is Emily. We had a guidebook, it was well thumbed. It became our bible. Ten days after graduation, we landed in Paris. Money changed, Eurail pass and college French to support us; we were giddy.

Two weeks in, we were loose, free, and ready for anything. We were in the open-air market of Bonnieux. A fairytale town. Emily leaned in to sniff a bouquet of lavender. When she opened her eyes, there stood Marie smiling. Two American girls with our college French, we had a job at Marie’s lavender farm for a week.

The Week Went Quickly

The days were long. The air was dry. The scent of lavender was everywhere. We had a place to sleep. Breakfast and lunch were basic. Dinner with Marie was out of a movie. I loved dinner. Marie was the best chef ever. Open air, under an Acacia tree, there was wine from three farms over. This was France, so there was time, French bread, cheese, grapes, and laughter.

I loved the time, the space, the natural flow. It felt like Emily and me at college talking until midnight. In our college French, everything we said felt funny. Marie egged us on. The wine may have had something to do with all the laughter.

Sunset and More Time

The sun would go down. Marie lit three candles. We didn’t need them yet, but soon flickering lights danced shadows across the table. Dinner was still cooking. It didn’t matter because we had white wine, white bread, white cheese, white grapes, and time. There was more time than I’ve ever known or remember and lots of laughter and love.

My Lavender Farm in France

Our week came to an end. We were curious and moved on to deeper Europe. I will always remember our lavender farm in France…Sara

Laughter and Lavender

Years later, I found a pair of earrings and a matching necklace that had the imagined scent of lavender fields and echoed our dinners of laughter and wine with Marie.

I’m Back On Our Lavender Farm

My mind twirls around colors. This is summer in France. The colors of amethyst, Tanzanite, and blue topaz swirl together, and I am back in France with Emily and Marie whenever I touch this necklace whenever I put the earrings on…Sara

Seeing Lavender Bloom in France

Yes, lavender farms are all over France. They’re in Provence, they are on the French Riviera. There are thousands of lavender fields to see.

Lavender Fields Provence

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Name: My Best Friend and Our Lavender Farm Necklace

Style#: CT9224

Precious Metal: 14K Yellow Gold

Gems: 16 World Amethysts, 6 Tanzanites, and 6 Blue Sky Topaz

Chain: 17″ 14K Yellow Gold

Price: $788

Matching Earrings Available

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Blue Sky Topaz

The Blue Zones of Happiness

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Earth has seven Blue zones. Seven places where people live longer with vim and vigor. A Blue Zone is not just about more time, it’s more time with a true quality of life. The Blue Zone mindset is about time for discovery, wisdom and work.

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Do you have to pick up and move to a Blue Zone for an extra 20 years? Do you have to sell your house, say goodbye to your friends and family? Do you move to Japan, Costa Rica or Sardinia and not see your grandchildren grow up to achieve an extra 20?

A Blue Zone is not about place, although these places exist within our world. Blue Zone is really about attitude, belief and philosophy. Yes, it would be nice to live in a place where everyone lived a very long time. Blue Zone living is easier than you might imagine. It’s a decision you make, a decision that exists inside of you. It’s a shift of your consciousness.

Is Blue Sky, Blue Zone a gem of magic? Yes-maybe-no, It is if you want it to be. It is magic if you choose it to be. It is magic if you decide, because living the Blue Zone life simply makes sense.

Blue Topaz is an amazing gem. It occurs in various shades of blue. At Cross, we choose the prettiest shades of pastel blue, they are the colors in the middle. Our Blue Sky Topaz is the third hardest gem after diamond which means it’s highly resistant to scuffing and scratching. Blue Topaz has a high refractive index (jeweler talk) which means that when a gem is cut properly, it’s the most sparkly bright brilliant pastel blue gem in nature!

Your new Blue Topaz is with you every day to remind you of the guiding principles of what is truly important.

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Orders Under $1,000 – Free shipping via FedEx (allow 4 business days). You can upgrade to overnight delivery for $20.

Orders Over $1,000 – Ship Free by your choice of FedEx Overnight or US Post Office Express. A signature is required on delivery.

90-Day Returns/Exchanges

Our extended ninety days, for a small business, is almost unheard of. Truth is, we shop for gifts too, and rather than scrambling at the last minute and feeling the tension of time, we like this more relaxed approach. We wish everyone did something like this… it would be a kinder, gentler world.

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