{"product_id":"first-light-falling-earrings","title":"First Light Falling Earrings","description":"\u003cp\u003eDawn doesn't arrive all at once. It starts as a pale suggestion along the horizon — not color, exactly, but the memory of color — and then something shifts. A milky warmth slides across the sky, catching in the clouds, turning translucent. For a few minutes, everything looks like it's made of light that hasn't quite decided what it wants to be yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpal has always carried that same indecision, that same shimmering refusal to commit to a single hue. The Romans called it \"opalus\" — a word likely descended from the Sanskrit \"upala,\" meaning precious stone — and believed it contained the fire of the ruby, the green of the emerald, the blue of the sapphire, all at once. It was the stone of possibility, of everything about to happen. The Bedouins believed opals fell from the sky during thunderstorms, carrying lightning inside them. Science tells us the play of color comes from microscopic silica spheres diffracting light at different wavelengths, but honestly, the lightning theory is more fun.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura Stark, working from her Brooklyn studio, has set these stones so they look like they're barely being held — just enough gold-filled and gold-plated metal to cradle the opal and let it do what it does best, which is change every time the light changes. The design is minimal and intentional, the kind of restraint that only comes from a maker who trusts her materials completely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 2½ inches from the top of the ear wire, these have real length — the kind that catches light when you turn your head, that moves with conversation. At just 1 gram per earring, though, they are almost impossibly light, the sort of piece you genuinely forget you're wearing until someone across the table asks about them. The ear wires are hypoallergenic, so the only thing you'll feel is that quiet warmth of gold against skin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHandcrafted by Laura Stark Designs in Brooklyn, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Laura Stark Designs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45686607708207,"sku":"058-E-10005","price":58.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0604\/1065\/8863\/files\/IMG-6303.jpg?v=1791250853","url":"https:\/\/haroldandhazel.com\/products\/first-light-falling-earrings","provider":"Harold \u0026 Hazel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}