Birthstone Ring for Mum and Daughter, Bow Ring with Two Heart Birthstones, Adjustable, Gold or Silver

She rings on a Tuesday for no reason at all and you stay on the phone forty minutes about nothing much. You are wiping down the counter one-handed when the little bow on your finger catches the window light, one stone hers, one stone yours, sitting right next to each other. You hang up and the kitchen is quiet again, and she is somehow still there.

Two heart cut birthstones sit point to point, held by one small polished knot, so the whole thing reads as a bow tied across your finger. You pick her month and yours from the twelve stones and we set them side by side, in warm gold or bright silver, on a softly ribbed band that stays open at the back. It eases wider or narrower with your fingertips, so there is no size to guess at and nothing to send back.

It tends to be given at the moments a phone call cannot cover. Mother's Day, the first Christmas after she moves into her own place, the birthday you are spending in different time zones, a graduation, a new baby, the anniversary of the day you became someone's mother. Plenty of them are ordered by husbands too, when the plan is to hand her something on Mother's Day that is not another candle.

Every ring arrives ready to give, set in a keepsake box with a printed card, so there is no wrapping to do. Lift the lid and the bow is already tied.