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It's your favorite design duo Katherine and Duane! We make everything you see here ourselves - in our tiny rural studio - including "Tally's Heart Pendant" (Uglies | Netflix | 2024). Our work is 100% original. Designed, cast, soldered by our hands.

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Our custom box set of four sterling silver napkin rings. Each compartment stores an original Ancient Courses Napkin Ring wrapped in a chocolate brown silver cloth pouch.
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A pine box is open to reveal four interior compartments for storing a set of four intricate napkin rings. Each napkin ring has its own chocolate brown silvercloth pouch. Two napkin rings have been removed from the box and their pouches and placed next to those still in the box.
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Sketching and coffee
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A white table with a cup of black coffee and a sketch book exploring the various ways prongs and stones of different sizes can relate to the main forms of a ring. ~ Een witte tafel met een kop zwarte koffie en een schetsboek dat de verschillende manieren onderzoekt waarop griffen en stenen van verschillende groottes zich kunnen verhouden tot de hoofdvormen van een ring. ~ Une table blanche avec une tasse de café noir et un carnet de croquis explorant les différentes manières dont les griffes et les pierres de tailles variées peuvent se rapporter aux formes principales d’une bague.
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We're going to take this post down soon but just needed to vent. And we thought you'd like to see the latest in billion dollar corporate bullshit from the perspective of a small business just trying to survive the litany of wealth and media consolidation bludgeoning us from all angles.

Every day google cooks up new fake reasons to bury our website under a mountain of Amazon listings. So today they flagged many of our website images as adult content or alcohol promotion. We make silver jewelry.

Watch this video to see for yourself how absurd this is!

...And also, to learn just what kind of freaky perv google is for thinking this is sexual content! We don't think anyone would want their children in contact with a search engine that has a mind this filthy.

We're so sick of this accelerationist sisyphean tamagotchi gamified hellscape we live in! All we want is to make cool pretty things, not play defensive whack-a-mole with an invasive rat king of incestuous billionaires!

Are you with us? We'll assume only the real ones have read this far. So let us know in a comment or a dm how the current autocracy is fucking up your life and what people like us can do to support you.

And if you want to help support us, then next time someone in your life mentions paying insane markups for a wispy piece of cookie cutter mall jewelry from Tiffany, Pandora, or whatever, just roll your eyes and let them know your friends at Xover0 have something waaaay better for them.

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read and listen if you have the stomach for it ~ lees en luister, als je er de maag voor hebt. ~ lis et écoute, si tu as l’estomac pour ça.

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And to our international friends ~ ❤️❤️❤️❤️ ~ your engagement with our work during these bullshit tariff wars means the world to us. We used to get orders from all over the world but haven't gotten a single international order since January 2025. And it's no mystery why. We just recently placed an order from an independent business in the UK, and were charged a 67% surprise tariff upon delivery. We literally had to write a check in our doorway to UPS to get them to leave the package. INSANE!

Meanwhile, prices at Walmart, Amazon, and the like remain the same. So as long as overseas factory labor is laundered through one of our billionaires, then we can enjoy tarrif free stability. But just don't think for one second you can circumvent the billionaire middle man and his cut of the pie.

But to us design has never been just about transactions! It's about connection! As we say in our manifesto: We want our relationship with you to be a partnership, where we are essential to each other. We see a reflection of ourselves in you, and we want to produce for you the beauty and exhilaration we want to see in the world. https://xover0.com/pages/manifesto

Whether you treat us as a museum, a design blog, a friend, or a jewelry shop doesn't matter. As long as we are seen by human beings with human minds and human feelings - untainted by corporate dross and algorithmic incentives. This will last and this will matter. And we will still be creating and enjoying whatever beauty the world has to offer as the empire's prolapsed anus crumbles and rains down shit all around us.