"Harmonious Union" Coin PendantJanuary 2011 Sterling silver The four characters on this coin shaped pendant, (bininhoh, read top bottom right left), literally translate to "one hundred years of good unity," but the meaning goes deeper than that. In Chinese, "one hundred years" is used euphamistically to mean "a very long time." The whole phrase, poetically translated, means "enduring and harmonious union," generally referring to married felicity.

I later had the opportunity to live in Hong Kong on my own while I was in college

and for the last century municipal law has dictated that all buildings constructed in Jerusalem must be clad in the stone

I reached out to my old supplier Colorado Alabaster

You may have seen the character 福 positioned this way in gold ink on a piece of red paper (red and gold also being symbols of prosperity) in a restaurant or other business

or “the ocean vows and the mountains ally”—a Chinese idiom meaning to pledge one's undying love to another

and she sees everything that leaves my bench so she has a high bar of expectation

A client came to me for a gift for his wife on the occasion of the birth of their daughter

The other design elements are significant as well

אלד is used in Kabbalah to protect one against the Evil Eye

It's interesting to note that I usually make "two-thumbed" hamsot

" Done in a calligraphic style

as a partner or a father or a U