Yes, sometimes great ideas literally do fall from the sky (just ask Sir Isaac Newton). So with Mother Nature providing the template, jewelry artisans in a small New York studio raked together both the funds and the raw materials to create the truly unique True Leaves collection. These are not molds but genuine leaves in all their fascinating, finely veined intricacy and gossamer delicacy, each one in itself already a gift of freeform organic beauty from field and forest. Using a process called electroforming, the carefully selected leaves are then coated with a special copper base paint and dipped in shimmering 24K gold. Just as in nature, no two are exactly alike.

Choose the clover leaf (luck), birch leaf (renewal), or oak (strength, endurance). The leaf pendants (about 3/4"-1 1/4" long) dangle from 24K gold-filled chains; 16" long, plus 2" extension. Leaf earrings are about 1 1/2"-1 5/8" long from the tops of gold-filled silver French wires. Size and shape will vary naturally. Handcrafted in America.