A Tourmaline Ring Rebirth

Here's a ring I recently gave a new design and life to.  It was inherited, and my client wanted to do something different--something that would show off the large, hot pink stone to its full advantage.  This is what we started with--yellow gold simple band with prong setting surrounded by tiny diamonds:

A shot to show the scale of the stone--LARGE!!!

We discussed some of my bauble rings and reticulated jewelry and decided to design something along those lines.  This is the approved drawing of the ring--featuring a bezel set stone, reticulated band, silver bubbles, and diamonds:

And the finished ring!  It's truly spectacular!  I LOVE it!

A few additional shots to see the whole design.  My maker's mark stamped in the band, along with the year and sterling (upside down).

The stone is set in a fine silver step bezel with an open back to allow the light to pass through and reflect on the facets. 

A couple of little diamonds from the original ring are tube set among the bubbles. 

A success story for sure!

Happy Easter!

We had a great dinner with my parents today.  Enjoyed yummy ham, potatoes and asparagus and of course--lots of chocolate!  Hope you had a great day too! 

Alot of new designs happening in the studio--rings, reticulated pins, and belt buckles too.  This photo shows a new necklace with silver flowers and faceted pink sapphires.  Here's the full piece--sterling silver wire vines linked to silver flowers.

More to come later this week. 

A Few New Things

Happy Birthday to me!  Well actually it's passed now, but I'm declaring this to be my birthday month!

A gift of living flowers to brighten the house and the mood to start my birthday.  And then a wonderful dinner with my parents, husband, and friend (and dogs too).  And then a nice chunk of time to work in the studio.  And here's what I finished:

These are reticulated silver earrings with sterling squiggles and balls with 4mm amethyst cabochons.

Then I worked up these long, thin heavily reticulated earrings with balls and pale pink faceted tourmaline bead drops.

I also finished this pin/pendant on Friday.  It's been in process for a while but I wasn't happy with what was happening.  So, I kept looking at it and looking at it and looking at it and finally it hit me--I turned the piece vertically, added another small bezel and then the bead drop at the bottom.  The Sleeping Beauty turquoise just sings with the silver. 

I have a bunch of other thing in various stages of creation, so keep looking back here and you'll see a lot more new designs.