Art of Gifting: Personal Ornaments

December 12th, 2011 • BY

Bauble her with outdoor-inspired, artisan jewelry like the leather-and-pearl Thallasea necklace.

Think outside the little blue box. Giving jewelry may sound unimaginative but not when it’s a unique outdoor-inspired piece from an intrepid woman artisan, like Tanya G. Burnett, a dive photographer, guide, and all-around mermaid based in West Palm Beach, Florida. Burnett hand chooses pearls on her edge-of-the-world travels, then crafts them into unique pieces for her homegrown company Calypso Sea. Take the Thallasea necklace ($195; calypsosea.com). Made of freshwater pearls from a remote province in China, it looks just as lovely worn with a beach cover-up as with a sundress at dinner. Bonus: A portion of proceeds go to shark conservation organizations.

For mountain girls, try Jackson, Wyoming-based jeweler Annie Band (annieband.com), who is also a skier, mountain biker, and wildlife biologist. Her one-of-a-kind rings, pendants, bracelets and other baubles are crafted with recycled or lab-raised gems—not mined—and ethically sourced precious metals. Many have symbolic totems or personal touches like an engraved S turn for a skier. Plus (hint, hint, boyfriends and husbands) custom designs are welcome.

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Kate Siber has worked as a pastry cook, a small-time farmer, a ski-rental tech, and a thankless-accounting drone, among other distinctive vocations, but the career she tried on and kept was writing. For the last eight years, Siber, a freelance writer and correspondent for Outside magazine, has traipsed the globe in search of stories, shooting blowguns with Amazonian tribes in Ecuador, tracking rhinos in South Africa, and diving with— More about this author →