| As precious as our friends are, drifting apart is | | | | the skin and each stone is completely unique. |
| unavoidable when we spend almost one hundred | | | | They are small enough to be carried around and |
| per cent of the year away, at college and | | | | even two or three may be transferred from one |
| perhaps working a job near college to help with | | | | purse to another or from pocket to pocket |
| fees. Coming home is a bitter sweet experience | | | | without difficulty. Each stone has its own special |
| for most of us and one that we want to mark | | | | character and no two are alike - just as no two |
| with a special gift. | | | | friends have the same things in common. Gifts |
| Friends and family miss us when we are away | | | | for friends that are staying home or gifts for |
| and sometimes a special gift can help us to | | | | friends that are leaving for college may be a |
| remember each other. A natural stone Tiger's Eye | | | | shared gift that says: 'Wherever you go and |
| friendship gift is easy to carry around, is unique | | | | whatever you do, all my thoughts are with you |
| and ever changing in the light as we are ourselves | | | | and I am waiting for you to come home again.' |
| and does not cost too much of our hard earned | | | | That High School romance that seemed such a |
| cash. | | | | great idea at the time seems foolish when one |
| Gifts for friends who are leaving for college are a | | | | has to leave for college and the other stay |
| thoughtful and wonderful gesture. Being away for | | | | home... Gifts for friends that must be parted take |
| most of the year is a raw experience for school | | | | the sting out of going away to college. Natural |
| leavers and although leaving family at home gets | | | | stone gifts may be touched and held and looked |
| easier as the years go by they are no less loved | | | | at during those endless night time study hours. |
| and certainly no less valued. | | | | They are the connection with a sweetheart back |
| College is a fascinating melting pot of friends from | | | | home and they mean a great deal to someone |
| all over the country and in our college years we | | | | who misses that special touch from that special |
| meet new friends every day. However, friends at | | | | someone. |
| home - the friends we met at Junior High and | | | | This time, get someone a special gift to take |
| High School, mean everything. To stay close and | | | | back to college. All those lonely hours of |
| connected we need a gift that may be held in the | | | | homesickness can be easier to put up with if you |
| hand and admired in the changing light. | | | | have a special connection with home and with the |
| Natural stones and natural stone jewelry warm to | | | | people you love. |