I made these rings for one of my lovely clients Greg and his partner, for their engagement and wedding bands. Not your average rings!
It was lovely to have them visit my workshop to choose the stones and talk about the design of their rings.
What an honour to make such important symbols for two good people! I wish them every happiness.
My lovely client Emma chose this amazing drusy cabochon to be made into this pink and white agate ring. The stone gets the amazing colour through treatment. I usually prefer natural stones, but sometimes a treated stone is just too good to pass up!
The ring is a huge one at nearly 5 cm long. It makes a great statement piece, but is comfortable enough for daily wear. The stone sits on top of the finger, but allows full movement of the finger below. I love to wear huge rings, and I take them off only if it gets very hot or if I’m doing something quite manual, like building another ring! You can read more about wearing my rings here.
Emma has a number of gorgeous Silver Forge pieces, including this pink and white agate ring. Check out her charoite ring; her shattuckite ring and her haematite ring. Fabulous! It’s always lovely when she drops by to browse my gemstones and have a chat. Thanks for visiting, Emma!
Holly sent me a picture and asked if I could make it into a pendant.
She wanted it as a gift for a friend of hers. So cute!
My lovely bestie asked me to make this ring for her husband for his birthday.
The three textured bands represent herself and their two children.
The bands turned out a little bit off kilter, which is a nice organic touch – humans are never perfect, after all!
I made this ring for my gorgeous friend Kelly for her birthday.
Love you Kel!
My lovely client Natasha previously had me make her and her partner new wedding rings, set with lemon quartz.
A friend of Natasha’s admired those rings so much, so Natasha had me create a similar ring for her!
What a lovely friend to have!
Robert saw the silver lotus flower pendant I created for my bestie’s yoga teacher, and asked if I could make him one for his girl.
He chose a black leather choker for the piece, which nicely changes the feel. It looks just as amazing as the brown I used on the previous one I made.
The lotus flower is also known as a water lily. As well as the gorgeous flower, it has the most amazing seed pod!
From the vault, here’s a pendant I created for a dear friend of mine, at the (secret) request of her husband.
This was a cheap ‘n’ cheerful piece that was crying out to be recreated* in ‘proper’ sterling silver.
*Just a note that I am no longer doing replica pieces, sorry to tantalise! (I did say from the vault… 🙂 )
There’s a nod to the sky and the sea and the forest in these sodalite, malachite, and silver gum-leaf earrings I created last year for my client George.
As part of the design process, I sent George some pictures of combinations of different gemstones from my available gemstone collection. He chose sodalite and malachite as a lovely combo. We added the gum-leaves for a lovely subtle nature themed earring. George thought they looked great, and they went off to a new home overseas. I’m always so happy when my clients like the pieces I’ve made. It’s always exciting when they’re headed off to various corners of the globe. I have made some well travelled jewels!
This eudialyte and silver pendant came about because Vera came to my workshop and browsed through my gemstone collection. There were a lot of choices, but Vera finally narrowed it down and chose two eudialyte stones for me to create with – one for her, and one for her partner. Vera’s piece is the eudialyte and silver cuff you can see more of here.
Her partner’s piece is this eudialyte and silver pendant. It’s a whoppingly big cabochon, great for a larger person! Eudialyte is a lovely stone and you can read more about it here.
Vera was very happy with the end result, and so was I. I think these pieces make a beautiful matched pair. I wish Vera every happiness for the future!
