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I live in Los Angeles and design custom jewelry ✨ I have many interests 😎 See my work at janaturnerfinejewelry.com 🐀 ♒️ 日本語をべんきょうしています。
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まちなみ 2025年5月 八東にて #architectureJP #architecture

I love #stackingrings!! They are so versatile and look so chic✨ I design #classicjewelry that is timeless, beautiful and looks reallly fuc%en good 🙌🏼 #customjewelry #customjewelrydesigner #diamondrings #diamondstackingrings #springstyle #madeinLA

Stonehenge, June 1997 by Stephen Morris

#ReliefWednesday - When you operate a bajillion social media accounts... A much-modified Greek grave naiskos showing a seated woman examining a jewellery box held by an attendant: ca. Late 2nd Century BC. #AncientBluesky 🏺 Image: Getty Collection (72.AA.159). Link - getty.edu/art/collecti...

Happy International Dance Day! 💃🪩 Interested in learning more about the history of dance? Check out Kathryn Soar and Christina Aamodt's book which examines the archaeological evidence for dance performances from a variety of geographical areas and time periods. 🏺 🔗 doi.org/10.30861/978...

I think I’ve posted Vincent van Gogh's 1887 'Japonaiserie Flowering Plum Tree’ before but worth another outing right now.

FindsFriday! In rich graves of southwest Germany's early #medieval period, rock crystal objects such as belt buckles are frequently discovered. Rock crystal was believed to possess healing and protective properties, and was also used for magical purposes.🧵 1/2 🏺#archaeology

Top views and side views✨ of realllly pretty things: #amethystcrystal #pendants and beautiful #vintageceramics holding a bunch of #red #tulips 🌷also #vintagebaskets #vintagemagazine #crystals #amethyst #brandbergamethyst #prettyplants #crystalpendant #madeinLA #customjewelry #oneofakind

Bant's Carn Entrance Grave Photo by Matthew Shaw #TombTuesday #stonesofkernow #entrancegrave #islesofscilly #stoneclub #standingstones #passagetomb #ancientsites

Happy springtime ✨🌷

Hopi pottery is known around the world for its fineness and elegantly painted, fluid designs. Bowl by Hopi potter Adelle Nampeyo. #art #pottery

Love this #emeraldcutdiamond #engagementring that i designed for an #architect client of mine… she has exquisite taste 😌 #customengagementring #madeinLA #LAstyle oh and my garden is looking lovely these days ✨ #weddingseason #loverules

#PhoenicianFriday silver swivel ring with glazed steatite scarab in a gold setting. 8th-7th century BCE. Scarab shows double footed ankh sign between crowned uraeus snake. #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky 📷Met Museum (74.51.4180)

NOT NOW TOXIC RICE #NotNow

Inside the hunt for unknown minerals in super-deep diamonds. The ancient and rare crystals are helping us understand the inner workings of our planet.

Windows at La Grande-Motte, a seaside resort in France. instagram.com/clementevb

It’s been beautiful in Los Angeles ☀️✨ and been making some equally beautiful jewelry lately, too 😎 #handmadejewelry #madeinLA #silverlake #springtime

Mies Van Der Rohe apartments #Stuttgart #wiessenhof

Glass bracelets and beads found in the oppidum (#Celtic settlement) at Manching. Manching was a centre of Celtic glass industry. It was specialized on the production of seamless colourful glass bracelets from ca. 260 - 40 BC. The raw glass was imported from the eastern Mediterranean...🧵 1/2 🏺

Boston’s Christian Science Plaza: - original Mother Church (1894) by Franklin I. Welch - Mother Church Extension (1906) by Charles Brigham and Solon S. Beman - Plaza (1971-1972) by Araldo Cossutta of I.M. Pei and Associates

One of Walter Allner’s brilliant covers for Fortune Magazine, this one from December, 1952 when apparently it was all over. #stonks

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

In the seventh century, it became a thing for women across the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to wear pieces of old Roman glass framed in gold settings as pendants on necklaces. Top left is a new find recorded this week on @findsorguk.bsky.social with others on PAS & the necklace from Sarre.

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.