Tenth Anniversary: AluminumNovember 2023 Aluminum foil The traditional gift for the tenth anniversary is aluminum. Now, I had some ideas but my wife decided that rather than making (in my case) or buying (in her case) each other elaborate or expensive gifts made from the material of the year, we should instead make it fun and have a craft period, elementary school style. We got out a roll of aluminum foil, armed ourselves with scissors and rulers, constructed a privacy barrier

and my passion for the city only deepened

Astrological sign: ♒ (Aquarius) (modern usage)

Holes are drilled into the bezel to accomodate the delicate chain

and turquoise

The metal is gold-toned but not stamped with a karat mark

March 2015

the molten caldera is represented by a vibrant Ethiopian fire opal glowing through the pelagic depths of a 24

so the patterns in the two stones are book-matched to each other

the wood can have beautiful figuring rivaling that of the most famous Hawaiian hardwood

and shaped like an eye to boot

sometimes just called Ha-Tefillah

I was lucky enough to find a matched pair that had been drilled for beading