When I was a little girl, I always admired the sparkly ring on my mom's finger. I was so excited when she gave me the ring 6 years ago because she stopped wearing rings. It has five 0.19ct princess cut diamonds set in an 18kt yellow gold setting. It was beautiful...but I realized that it's not for me because I never wear yellow gold. It would also bother me that the diamonds didn't cover my finger (darn big fingers) and I would think, it would be perfect there were two more diamonds. All these reasons caused the ring the sit in my jewelry box for a long time.
I started thinking about resetting the diamonds into something more wearable, but I haven't found a jeweler I like, so again, I left it on the back burner for a while. Finally, I stumbled into a store one day and talked to the owner a bit and he was the most friendly guy you will meet. He made me feel really comfortable, so I took the plunge and gave him my ring to reset.
A few things I thought about when deciding on the design of the ring:
- Diamonds should always be visible
- Modern
- I am on a budget
- White gold
- Stackable with other rings when I get more later *wishful thinking*
Since I was on a budget, an eternity band with diamonds all around was out of the question. I was looking online for inspiration, but for some reason, princess cut is always just set in a channel band. I didn't want to do just a 5 or 7 stone band because it drives me crazy when the ring turns. I needed something uniform all the way around. I finally saw a design with 1 princess diamond that I liked, so I modified it to have the 5 stones evenly distributed around.
3 weeks later, here is the finished product that I am extremely happy with -
(Not sure why the lighting made the skin tones so weird, must be a tan I didn't know I had :) )
I love recreating something to make it brand new again! Did you ever do that and have something you are extremely happy with?
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