Makeover Monday: Wedding set update!

How do you feel about melting down wedding rings? Some people are appalled by the idea. Some people ARE HERE FOR IT!

I’m happy to fix up old rings and make them shine like new. I am also happy to melt down old wedding sets that no longer match your style or are broken. Even in a new form, the ring will still represent the memory of your love.

I recently melted down my customers old wedding set. It just wasn’t her anymore. She wanted something she actually wanted to wear and that was low-profile for easy every day use. We came up with a wider band style and set all the stones between tube-settings and flush-set into the band. If you head over to my Instagram (here), you can see what her wedding set looked like before I melted it!

What do you think? Would you melt down your old engagement ring or wedding band to make something new?

Metamorphosis 40: Redo - Stackable Rings

I asked Stef if she wanted to be part of Metamorphosis Redo because I made her a pendant during my Game of Thrones phase and figured she might be over it (I was)!

She asked for either a necklace to represent her daughters or some stackable rings to wear with her wedding band. I was going to go with the pendant because stackable rings seemed so…basic. But despite being basic, they are just so darn wearable and practical! So that’s what I went with.

She sent me photos of plain stackable rings but I decided to throw in some pizazz by adding a hammered yellow gold and twisted silver. Figured it would give her ring stack more definition!

I’m hoping to sneak in one more Metamorphosis Redo this year! Fingers crossed I don’t run out of time!

Metamorphosis Redo

This year my Metamorphosis focus is on redo’s of old metamorphosis!

I have two non-redo metamorphosis planned for this year but the rest will be redo’s and I’m really excited about it!

A lot of people are scared to ask me to melt things down that I’ve made them in the past. Never feel bad! Styles change!

I decided to use metamorphosis as a platform to show people that it’s ok to melt down jewellery I’ve made them. So stay tuned…the first redo will be coming soon!

Metamorphosis 35: White gold, moonstone, and mother of pearl ring

Kat came all the way from Seattle to be part of this project! She left me her old grad ring that she never wore and trusted me to turn it into something new!

Kat was super organized in regards to sending me information of what she liked and didn’t like. I always love when people have visual references of their preferences because sometimes things get lost in translation or my idea of something is different than theirs!'

To make Kat’s ring, I melted down her white gold ring (see photo of it below) and made a plain band. I picked moonstone and mother of pearl for her ring because they are alternate birthstones to hers (pearl/alexandrite). Her grad ring had an alexandrite but I didn’t want to repurpose it. I made the settings for the stone and then soldered them to the band. After the ring was cleaned up and polished, I set the stones with the middle piece still between the settings. Cutting it out before I set the stones would make the stones harder to set since the band would be weaker once cut. After the middle piece was cut out, I gave the ring one more polish and voila!

METAMORPHOSIS 33: Silver, rose quartz, and diamond necklace

I had seen a similar necklace months ago and kept the photo because I knew I wanted to make something similar for someone one day. Verity was that someone! As I was rifling through my stones to find something she would like (she likes pastel colours), I stumbled upon a purply rose quartz. I set it aside while I looked at other stones, but I kept going back to the rose quartz. I decided that it was a sign that the stone was meant for her!

To make the necklace: I made the vessel for the stone which consisted of melting silver and rolling out a piece wide enough to be the walls around the stone and a flat piece for the bottom big enough for the stone and vessel walls, then soldering it together, cleaning it up, soldering the jump rings to it and the 4-claw setting for the cubic (which was from another earring she had), soldering the chain to the jump rings, polishing the whole thing, setting the stones, and lastly polishing everything again.

Really happy that I finally got to make this necklace!

METAMORPHOSIS 30: White gold and diamond stackable rings

Stackable White Gold and Diamond Rings

These rings may seem simple but let me tell you, when there are infinite possibilities in stackable ring designs, it’s hard to pick just a couple!

I started by swapping Shannon’s yellow gold for white gold since she prefers white and didn’t have enough. I was able to use one of the pre-existing settings (princess cut - square centre stone) from a pendant she had for the thinner ring. Once both bands were made and I soldered the princess setting to the thinner ring, I sent them off to the stone setter!

With all the materials Shannon had left over she actually ordered a third ring which will balance the other two rings nicely. I’ll post a photo of it when it’s done!

Before photo of Shannon’s jewellery

METAMORPHOSIS 2019

Who’s ready for year 4 of metamorphosis?! YEAR 4! I’m so flattered and happy that you guys love this project (or are crazy) enough to keep volunteering so that I can keep doing it. Thanks to all of you, I get to be creative and create custom jewellery at a fraction of the price.

Interested in participating? Here are the details:

• You MUST be a referral (friend of a friend of a friend is fine)

• $100 required upfront

• You supply the materials (unless I design something that needs something you don’t have in which I will supply the materials)

• I will take your likes/dislikes into consideration but will make something of my choice

• Turnaround is 6 to 8 weeks

• Whatever I make you and it’s details will be posted on my social media

To apply, please send me photos of the jewellery you would like to use for this project and photos of jewellery you would like to acquire.

Questions? Don’t hesitate to ask!