Amethyst & Mother of Pearl Wood Ring Set

Hey, pretty rings! This sweet custom set features amethyst and Mother of Pearl in rosewood (left) and walnut (right) rings. 

Head to our Custom page to get started on your own set!

The Sea in a Ring: So Beautiful It's Embarassing

Bogwood, Turquoise, Malachite, Mother of Pearl

This ring puts us in the mind of the summer sea at night, maybe some moonlight passed along the water, and the song "Sea of Love," by Phil Phillips. Particularly the cover by Cat Power. 

Come with me, my love
To the sea, the sea of love
I want to tell you how much I love you

The ocean can feel endless, a circle is endless, life is finite but can be so lovely.

We're getting a little too philosophical, maybe. It can be a problem around here. We're aware. We're working on it. But! Those aren't tears. That's just the shore wind kicking up sand. 

Okay, we're fine now. Promise. Just go watch this ridiculous video (for a very different sea/love song) while we put ourselves together.

Then head to the Ring Shop for your own embarrassingly beautiful adornment. 

Summer Days Full of Light

"This is the world's reenactment of today,

and of this moment,

     and of continuing on-with its satellite imaging of scattering birds
obscuring our faces—

and this is the world's reenactment of its percentages:
of the constant shifting of the satellites
and the constant scattering of the birds and the likelihood

that we will be seen;
and this is the reenactment of someone choosing your face"

from "Equation for Cresting" by Christopher Bolin, via Verse Daily

These summer weeks our studio fills with light and noise.


These summer weeks out studio fills with light and joy.

Even the peregrine falcons have been hooting and squeaking and swooping, like, they know. (Or perhaps, with Field Museum visitors, and three little newly-hatched babes, they've got their own sweet hubbub!)

So many wonderful people are getting married at the end of June! And we're making wood rings for everyone, or, it certainly seems that way.

Lisa and Denise came in to pick up their rings earlier this week, for a private commitment ceremony. They were freshly back from Kenya, and "accidentally" wearing coordinated shirts featuring elephants from their travels. 

It was so wonderful to spend time with these two as they tried on their rings--rosewood, moissanite, and mother of pearl--and made sure just they were just right. 

Allison consults with Lisa and Denise about the right fit.

Lisa and Denise try the rings on for size for the first time!

Denise takes a closer look. 

The happy couple!

We couldn't be happier for Lisa and Denise, and wish them a lifetime together of joy and adventure.

If you need us, we'll be sanding and wrapping, packing and shipping, sighing and stretching, and ready for more!

On Glitter, & Value

No one ever wants glitter.

We wish someone would!

Or perhaps ground pyrite (fool's gold), shimmering under the finish as it would in the fast currents of the creek.

fool's gold itself (image by Didier Descouens, via Wikipedia_

At the studio, one of us remembers discovering a chunk of pyrite during a creek walk at Pilgrim Hills. She was five at the time, and only beginning to understand the idea of currency. Fishing it up from the sandy bottom, she hollered: "We're rich!" Like Scrooge McDuck or Donald Trump. Her mother giggled a bit, had to explain as they walked home that though the rock was beautiful, it wasn't gold. Their bank balance would remain the same. They would have to skip a lazy backstroke through a room-sized vault of doubloons. They watched a whitetail deer mince along the treeline. "But it's still really beautiful," her mother said. "You should keep it on your windowsill where it'll reflect the light."

At Simply Wood Rings, we work with this kind of beauty: the natural, the authentic. Sure: money helps us all live in our contemporary lives, but natural beauty feeds a different part. This is why we love doing what we do. We're not only spellbound but inspired by our materials, their past lives, their journeys. They reflect our own evolutions as people on a planet full of uncountable types and forms of beauties.

Seashore's Muse: Rosewood and Mother of Pearl

Consider: that we want our rings to call attention to this kind of natural wealth.

Consider: that for us, they do.

Be it glitter or pyrite or fossil or ancient woods.

Wishing you some beauty today, wherever you may find it.