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Showing posts with label spinel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spinel. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

New Work

Lately I've been inspired to repeatedly play around with a new band style that involves a lot of sawing and piercing... here's a plain 14k yellow gold band -

bubble wedding band

 - that I later polished and added a stone to -

spessartite garnet ring
Ethically sourced spessartite garnet and recycled 14k yellow gold ring

blue spinel ring
 Another one in a similar style, this time with Chatham lab created aqua spinel and recycled 14k white gold

two tone wedding band
 Next up, a layered band made from recycled 950 palladium and recycled 14k yellow gold, which also eventually asked to be embellished with a stone :-) ...

forever brilliant moissanite
  Forever Brilliant moissanite, recycled 950 palladium, and recycled 14k yellow gold ring


Tuesday, August 14, 2012

New Stones

purple sapphire
 Fair trade sapphire, 5mm (0.8 carat)

ethical sapphire cabochons
Fair trade pink sapphire cabochons

ethically sourced sapphire
 Fair trade sapphire, 5.5mm (0.8 carat)

fair trade sapphire
  Fair trade sapphire, 5mm (0.6 carat)

ethical pink sapphire
  Fair trade sapphire, 5.7mm (1.0 carat)

fair trade sapphire
  Fair trade sapphire, 5.5mm (0.8 carat)

spinel cabochon
Fair trade spinel cabochon, 10mm x 8mm, (3.6 carats)