In 2017, I decided I was ready for a signet ring. In the preceding years, I’d been making some big decisions about my life. I had just completed the GIA Applied Jewelry Professional course and was ...

As long as humans have had bodies to adorn, we’ve found ways to cover as many inches of skin as possible. Glitter & baubles. Stacked rings scaling fingers; chains of every length wrapped aroun...

Poem by Farah Shamma  

I’m always asked how I knew I wanted to be a jewelry designer. The truth is: I didn’t. As a child, I didn’t prance around in costume beads or admire my mother’s baubles incessantly. Visions of diam...