Custom commission: a gold cherry blossom ring for Laura, an oncology nurse with a full-body Japanese cherry blossom tattoo. 4-month process from sketches to wax model to gold casting, with a 5-karat rough black diamond center and 5 triangular diamonds between petals.
Trip to Switzerland for a 45-year high school reunion. Soglio in the Bergell valley (Hotel Palazzo Salis built 1629, once occupied by Rilke), Chagall exposition at the Kunsthaus, and admiring a 20.67ct aquamarine gold ring by Gabriele Krack and a Tiffany diamond bee pendant.
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