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jana
@janaturner.bsky.social
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I live in Los Angeles and design custom jewelry ✨ I have many interests 😎 See my work at janaturnerfinejewelry.com

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jana @janaturner.bsky.social · Feb 10
America, the beautiful 🇺🇸
we want to live in a #multiracial #multicultural #america anti-diversity laws won’t stop us- and f*ck these mofos trying to establish a racial hierarchy again in America. Nope. #GTFO
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jowolff.bsky.social
Lucie Rie
Photograph of pot. Narrow at base, wide at top. Creamy brown colour with vertical lines and burnished rim and interior.
May 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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satiitiban.bsky.social
まちなみ　2025年5月　八東にて #architectureJP #architecture
May 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
janaturner.bsky.social
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
A collection of stacking rings on a felt roll in front of multi-colored flowers. Rings are mostly 22K and have diamonds, pink and purplish spinel, and pink tanzanite. A hand with multiple stacking rings and one rectangle shaped opal cocktail ring on the index finger. Most rings are 18K or 22K yellow gold My pepper tree with a gorgeous pink + orange sunset behind it A collection of diamond stacking rings and herringbone chains and other chains with an initial pendant and evil eye on one and a pot leaf and green stone on the other one.
May 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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stoneclub.bsky.social
Stonehenge, June 1997
by Stephen Morris
Artwork titled Stonehenge, June 1997 By Stephen Morris
April 30, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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doccrom.bsky.social
#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...
A seated woman examines a jewellery box with a hinged lid, but the image also suggests someone looking at a laptop screen!
April 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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barpublishing.bsky.social
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...
April 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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jowolff.bsky.social
I think I’ve posted Vincent van Gogh's 1887 'Japonaiserie Flowering Plum Tree’ before but worth another outing right now.
Japanese style painting of plum tree and blossom, framed with Japanese text on the sides.
April 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
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
A translucent, oval-shaped object made of rock crystal with a hollow center, intersected horizontally by a metal rod, displayed against a dark background.
April 25, 2025 at 7:22 AM
janaturner.bsky.social
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
Two pendants made from slices of amethyst crystals, set on a block of California walnut. The larger pendant is hung from a rope chain and the smaller one is hung from a long oval paper clip style chain. Top view of my table that has a vintage Art in America magazine with a wood bowl on top of it. There’s also a vintage square ceramic plate that has a handmade basket on top of it (basket holds my assorted coasters), a ceramic bowl by Sunja Park decorated with abstract green and yellow splotches, and a vintage Arabia vase with a bunch of red double petal tulips inside of it These are the amethyst crystal slices before they were set. The ones set in first pic are the large one in the back of the photo and the smaller one on the far right side. They’re stunningly beautiful - especially when set on 14K yellow gold :) Side view of my table with vintage green Arabia pot in the front holding the red tulips along with the ceramics, basket, and wood bowl
April 25, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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stoneclub.bsky.social
Bant's Carn
Entrance Grave
Photo by Matthew Shaw
#TombTuesday
#stonesofkernow #entrancegrave #islesofscilly #stoneclub #standingstones #passagetomb #ancientsites
April 22, 2025 at 6:20 AM
janaturner.bsky.social
Happy springtime ✨🌷
Beautiful green tourmaline hanging earrings. Top part of earrings (that are holding the rectangular shaped tourmalines) are flat, organically shaped gold nuggets, made in 18K yellow gold. Photo of me wearing the green tourmaline gold nugget earrings, a classic rope chain necklace and 22K + 24K rings ☺️ Beautiful green tourmaline hanging earrings displayed on a block of California walnut. Top part of earrings (that are holding the rectangular shaped tourmalines) are flat, organically shaped gold nuggets, made in 18K yellow gold. Classic LA style rope chain, hanging beautifully in front of a gorgeous block of California walnut (wood supplied by one of my favorite artists/architects Christopher Norman who isn’t on BS, sadly…)
April 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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mfcarter.bsky.social
Hopi pottery is known around the world for its fineness and elegantly painted, fluid designs.

Bowl by Hopi potter Adelle Nampeyo.

#art #pottery
April 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM
janaturner.bsky.social
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
Photo of a .75ct emerald cut diamond, bezel set horizontally in 22K yellow gold. It is sitting on a block of California walnut A shot of my garden with plumeria in the foreground and other blooming succulents. Taken in the early evening so lighting is just right… Photo of a .75ct emerald cut diamond, bezel set horizontally in 22K yellow gold. It is sitting on a white ring holder and paired with a 24K 2mm plain wedding band.
April 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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han-okon.bsky.social
#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)
An silver swivel ring with glazed steatite scarab in gold setting. 8th-7th century BCE, Archaic. The ring type is typically Phoenician but both the scarab and glazed steatite are more connected to Egypt. Dimensions: 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm)
April 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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keithwilson.eu
NOT NOW TOXIC RICE #NotNow
April 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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newscientist.com
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.
Inside the hunt for unknown minerals in super-deep diamonds
www.newscientist.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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presentcorrect.bsky.social
Windows at La Grande-Motte, a seaside resort in France.
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September 11, 2024 at 2:50 PM
janaturner.bsky.social
It’s been beautiful in Los Angeles ☀️✨ and been making some equally beautiful jewelry lately, too 😎 #handmadejewelry #madeinLA #silverlake #springtime
Side(ish) view of a recent ring I designed. It’s made in 18K yellow gold and has three engraved flowers on the front with tiny princess cut diamonds set inside the star. It’s sitting on a block of California walnut and there’s a small cerulean colored vase in the background with a pink gerbera daisy inside it (from my garden:)) I love the gentile taper towards the back of this ring. Super subtle but so pretttty Front view of a recent ring I designed. It’s made in 18K yellow gold and has three engraved flowers on the front with tiny princess cut diamonds set inside the star. It’s sitting on a block of California walnut and there’s a small cerulean colored vase in the background with a pink gerbera daisy inside it (from my garden:)) Big, bright pink bougainvillea bush on left side of photo and many houses and apartment buildings populate the hills. It’s a typical LA neighborhood scene California wildflowers and native plants and trees in my neighborhood
April 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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roaringmeg.bsky.social
Mies Van Der Rohe apartments #Stuttgart #wiessenhof
Mies Van der Rohe
April 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
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

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The picture shows six bracelets, three made of yellow glass, two of blue glass, one of blue-green glass. The four beads in the picture are of dark blue colour.
April 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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maxchavez.bsky.social
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
Gridded concrete frame in front of a wall of windows. Colonnade of angled, thin concrete walls with arched cutouts at their bases. Two large churches, one Renaissance Revival and the other Romanesque, attached to one another. The two churches and colonnade sitting below a row of tall skyscrapers.
April 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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sarcher.bsky.social
One of Walter Allner’s brilliant covers for Fortune Magazine, this one from December, 1952 when apparently it was all over. #stonks
A boldly colorful Fortune magazine cover by Walter Allner featuring a stylized financial graph with blue, yellow, green, pink and orange regions on a grid
April 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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nhannahjones.bsky.social
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.
Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH
The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...
www.latimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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helengittos.bsky.social
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.
April 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
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.
The image is a screenshot of a tweet from Brandon Bradford (@BrandonLBradfor ). The tweet reads: "Deporting Americans without due process then saying they no longer get due process because they aren’t in America means no one has rights, FYI. Nightmare scenario."
April 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM