Ammolite Oval Earrings (Final Sale)Seventy one million years ago, the shallow sea that covered what is now western Alberta was teeming with ammonites coiled cephalopods that drifted through warm Cretaceous waters like living spirals. When the sea retreated and the creatures fossilized, something extraordinary happened. Mineralization, tectonic pressure, and tens of millions of years transformed their nacre into something found nowhere else on earth: ammolite, a gemstone that carries

with an eye toward quiet permanence rather than trend

Lichen on bark

He lost that argument beautifully

when gem cutters first realized that elongation amplifies light

A cuff designed for hair honors that instinct

broken or buried or forgotten in estate sales

gold holds it

At just five-eighths of an inch from top to bottom and 2 grams per earring

It gathers — slowly

too — not the pale blue of shallows but something denser

The spiral is one of the oldest decorative motifs we know

sometimes longer