Portrait of Merlin, who was a very good boy.
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Warm rose ring with amber-colored garnet
This solitaire features a warm amber-colored garnet surrounded by roses, buds, and leaves. 18K gold.
Continue readingDelicate ginkgo leaves solitaire
This sweet little solitaire features a delicate 3mm diamond flanked by a pair of ginkgo leaves. 14K yellow gold.
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Offset Dogwood motif ring. This one is in 14K white gold and is set with a smoky unheated zoisite. Many more pics after the click:
Continue readingdragonfly & sapphire ring
We started with a dragonfly and morning glory motif for this gorgeous blue sapphire. Then this was whittled down to only dragonflies because the two motifs together were feeling a bit cumbersome somehow.. But then I was thinking about what to carve along the elongated body of the insect, and going back to the morning glory motif ended up being perfect. Lends a bit of additional fairytale whimsy to the design.
Sapphire, diamonds, 18K yellow gold.
Continue readingoak leaves & oval diamond solitaire
This was a re-design for a perfect oval diamond. White oak leaves with a pair of acorns on one side. 18K white gold.
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This sweet little ouroboros ring was designed around a lovely antique champagne diamond that had a lot of character and sentimental value. 14K rose gold.
Continue readingmoonstone & oak leaves ring
An Oak leaves & Acorns design for this giant hunk of moonstone. I love how this ring turned out! 18K with a pair of diamonds at the sides of the bezel.
coiled snake solitaire #2
This is a new, larger iteration of a design I did a while back, but with a larger stone. The diamond here measures 1.65ct (~7.3mm) and I scaled up the snake to fit. I love this ring!
sphinx cat pendant
Cats actually are quite hard for me to carve, for some reason. I decided to give this Sphinx cat a go because they are so interesting looking and I thought all the wrinkles would be fun. I also was experimenting with the two-tone, 18K yellow gold & 14K white gold, something I don’t do very often. The clasp has an Australian opal and the clasp loop has a pair of little diamonds as well.
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