Everlasting memories, passed down
Our stones have already lasted tens of millions of years. We set them so they can last for generations more, and carry your memories with them. A first anniversary. The birth of a child. A promise kept.
It is also the reason behind our name.
Every name carries a wish. Ours is written in two characters.
福 and 寶. Together they mean fortune and treasure, and they hold the idea at the heart of everything we make. The things we love most should be kept, cherished and passed on.
Said aloud, FullBO sounds like Fú Bǎo. A blessing that feels full, and a treasure that lasts.
福 is one of the most loved characters in the Chinese language. It means good fortune, happiness and a life that feels full.
Look closely and it has two parts. On the left is 礻, the sign for offering and the spiritual. On the right is 畐, an ancient picture of a vessel filled to the brim. A full vessel, offered with care. Long ago, that is what fortune looked like.
Every Lunar New Year, families hang 福 on their doors, often upside down. In Chinese, the words for upside down and for arrived sound the same, so a 福 turned over quietly says that good fortune has arrived.
In its traditional form, 寶 tells a small story. Under a roof sit the most precious things a family could own.
We find something special in that. Jade and shell are exactly what we work with. Our ammolite is the shell of an ammonite, a sea creature that lived seventy million years ago, slowly turned to gemstone deep in the earth of western Canada. Jade has been treasured in China for thousands of years. Long before FullBO existed, the character for treasure was already written with our stones inside it.
傳家寶
Chuán jiā bǎo · a family treasure
There is a word in Chinese for the most meaningful kind of jewelry. 傳家寶, a treasure passed down through a family.
It might be a jade bangle a grandmother wore every day, then placed on her daughter's wrist on her wedding day. A pendant carried across an ocean to a new home. The stone does not change. What grows is the memory. Every person who wears it adds a chapter, and the piece becomes a way of keeping someone close long after they are gone.
We hope the piece you choose becomes a treasure your family keeps, and one day passes on.
FullBO 福寶 was born from love, memory and the belief that the most precious things in life deserve to last.