This beautiful ring crafted by Virginia Aland can be found at the real store. This store has a manifesto; I like that, its very 1940's Dada of them. In fact I think all stores should be required to produce a manifesto, that no-one will read. I did read it however and I don't mean to sound negative as I think it's pretty awesome that they are promoting sustainable designers and supporting important causes. Your awesome real store (sorry about the manifesto joke). Anyway back to Virgina Aland and her jewellery. She uses a three thousand year old Egyptian technique called Faience, in which she uses "a secret paste mix of clay, glazes and oxides which she sun-bakes then fires to produce each handmade bead in her home studio on the South Coast of NSW." I have a very particular image of this as my family is living on the South Coast, not alot of Faience going on but Virginia is making enough for all of us. I think this ring would make an excellent first mothers day present. Remind me to encourage my husband to subsribe to this blog. :)
