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Opal, Peridot and Sterling Silver Ring

Opal, Peridot and Sterling Silver Ring

My lovely client, Pauline, wanted a ring created for her daughter’s 40th birthday, with and opal and two peridots which are the birthstones of her daughter’s three children.

Opal, Peridot and Sterling Silver Ring

She asked if I could use an opal cabochon that she had. I was happy to do that!

Opal, Peridot and Sterling Silver Ring

I got in some tiny peridots, and we designed the ring together.

Opal, Peridot and Sterling Silver Ring

Pauline asked if I could make a simple silver bangle to pair with the ring. What a lovely gift!

Supernova Blue Drusy Agate and Sterling Silver Ring

Supernova Blue Drusy Agate and Sterling Silver Ring

Supernova Blue Drusy Agate and Sterling Silver Ring

My gorgeous friend Marg, who is an artist (you can view her beautiful work here on her website), commissioned me to create this ring for one of her daughters.

Supernova Blue Drusy Agate and Sterling Silver Ring

Marg’s daughter chose this divine drusy agate cabochon, as it reminded her of a supernova. As soon as Marg told me I could see how very apt this imagery is!

Supernova Blue Drusy Agate and Sterling Silver Ring

It is always a joy to work with a fellow artist who appreciates not just my work, but the underlying complexities of being a creative type. Thanks as always, dear Marg!

Lapis Lazuli and Sterling Silver Ring

Lapis Lazuli and Sterling Silver Ring

Lapis Lazuli and Sterling Silver Ring

One of the benefits of being part of organising a school reunion is that along the way, you get back in touch with some lovely people that you haven’t seen since your high school days.

Lapis Lazuli and Sterling Silver Ring

I was thrilled to be commissioned to create this lapis lazuli ring for one of these gorgeous friends (there is a love story attached to this friend and the reunion, but that is a tale for another day!)

Lapis Lazuli and Sterling Silver Ring

Could there be much better than creating a thing of beauty for a person with a beautiful heart?

 

Pearl and Reticulated Sterling Silver Ring

Flashback – Pearl and Sterling Silver Ring

On a trip through China with my family in 2008, as part of a tour of Shanghai we visted the Jin Mao Tower (at the time the sixth tallest building in the world). Our tower entry tickets rather bizarrely entitled us to a free pearl each at the top of the tower (don’t ask, I still don’t know!), so we wandered past many vendors of tourist tat, and found a counter where a girl whisked out some big flat oysters, popped them open with a pair of pliers and a screwdriver, and offered us a choice of pearls!

Pearl and Reticulated Sterling Silver Ring

We each chose one, and I held onto them for some time, then decided to set them in a ring so that I could enjoy them.

The top of the ring is reticulated – a method that involves heating a sheet of silver to almost melting point, so the surface becomes textured. Fun stuff!

Pearl and Reticulated Sterling Silver Ring

As another addition to my family was on the way at the time, my very kind teacher Sue, gave me a little seed pearl to set in the top of the ring along with the other three. I treasure this ring, and still wear it today!

Grey Drusy Agate and Sterling Silver Ring

Grey Drusy Agate Ring

Grey Drusy Agate and Sterling Silver Ring

I love all the cabochons I source, but once in a while I come across a cabochon that I just can’t part with. This grey drusy agate is one of those.

Grey Drusy Agate and Sterling Silver Ring

I love this ring, and I’ve been wearing it nearly every day!

Grey Drusy Agate and Sterling Silver Ring

If you’d like a custom made gemstone ring of your own, check out my gemstone collection, and let me know which one you love the most!

Moss Agate and Sterling Silver Ring

Moss Agate and Sterling Silver Ring

Moss Agate and Sterling Silver Ring

I was contacted by a lovely person who wanted a ring made for her partner.

Moss Agate and Sterling Silver Ring

She came to visit me, and after checking out my collection of gemstones chose this piece of moss agate, which she felt would really suit her tall Nordic girlfriend.

Moss Agate and Sterling Silver Ring

I was so pleased with the way this ring turned out – it was a pleasure to create it!

Agatised Fossil Coral and Sterling Silver Ring

Agatised Fossil Coral and Sterling Silver Ring

Agatised Fossil Coral and Sterling Silver Ring

One of my gorgeous clients, who has a great collection of Silver Forge rings, asked if I could create her a ring with this piece of agatised fossil coral from my gemstone collection.

Agatised Fossil Coral and Sterling Silver Ring

This stone is enormous, and I was happy to accept the challenge!

Agatised Fossil Coral and Sterling Silver RingIt is the longest stone I’ve set so far, and I think it turned out very nicely.

Agatised Fossil Coral and Sterling Silver Ring

Thanks, lovely Charmaine! 🙂

Sterling Silver Sphere Ring

Flashback – Sterling Silver Sphere Ring

Sterling Silver Sphere Ring

At The Goldsmith’s School where I did my training, after learning to set a stone, I was taught how to create a hollow ball or sphere.

Sterling Silver Sphere Ring

There is some danger involved – once you have cut out two circles, domed them to be exactly half of the diameter that you require, you solder the two halves together, and because there is a hollow space in the middle of the ball that you are closing, the risk is that the ball explodes as you are soldering it. This hasn’t happened to me, but I always wear my protective glasses just in case!

Sterling Silver Sphere Ring

This ring was not born from my own idea, as I borrowed the concept from a beautiful piece I bought years ago from a jeweller who had a stand at the Brunswick Street Markets – I have seen this notion replicated in many places however, and it is a simple smithing concept. I try not to look at other people’s work these days, as I would hate to accidentally plagiarise someone’s original creation! There is nothing new under the sun they say, but I like ideas to grow organically inside my own imagination. And I do have plenty of them!

Puddingstone and Sterling Silver Ring

Puddingstone and Sterling Silver Ring

Puddingstone and Sterling Silver Ring

I created this puddingstone and sterling silver ring for one of my super-lovely clients.

Puddingstone and Sterling Silver Ring

 

Gorgeous! The lovely stone was from my gemstone collection.

 

Puddingstone and Sterling Silver Ring

Puddingstone is an agate, and this one comes from Agate Creek right here in Queensland. You can read more about puddingstone here on my blog.

Peridot, Black Onyx and Moonstone Sterling Silver Stacking Rings

Peridot, Black Onyx and Moonstone Sterling Silver Stacking Rings

Peridot, Black Onyx and Moonstone Sterling Silver Stacking RingsIt’s always lovely to create for people you love, so when my bestie asked me to make her daughter a set of stacking rings as a sixteenth birthday present, I was stoked!

Peridot, Black Onyx and Moonstone Sterling Silver Stacking Rings

The stones come from my embarrassingly extensive gemstone collection.

Peridot, Black Onyx and Moonstone Sterling Silver Stacking Rings

 

If you’d like a set (or just one!) of your own, let me know – I’d love to make you some.