Eleventh Anniversary: SteelNovember 2024 Stainless steel The traditional gift for the eleventh anniversary is steel. Not a common jewelry material, but then again my wife keeps reminding me that she doesn't wear a lot of jewelry and would like something that she'll actually use. A trivet seemed both practical and well suited to the material. My wife is a Scorpio; the date of our wedding makes our marriage a Scorpio as well so that seemed like a thematic starting point. At first

but leaving the lower relief still matte

but considering that the narrow dimension of the stone is very nearly wider than the size 6 shank of the ring

and these odd little earrings are an homage to that aesthetic

abstract and whimsical design that holds a deeper meaning

In this design the letters fill the outer surface of the ring

and gleaned until the barley harvest and the wheat harvest were finished

I decided to put into a ring

the grooves in the ring align with the positions and angles where the roads enter the circle on the map

and am humbled to have been a part of a project that allowed me to combine my Jewish practice with my personal history in China and Hong Kong

a matched set of half-round twist-style rings

Over time I added more conversational elements—the recessed eternity band of seventy-five diamonds can be seen as subtext

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