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Manda's Wrap Around Mother's Ring

The challenge with doing custom projects is charting new territory, which can cause unexpected things to happen.

Last year at about this time, I created a mother's ring for a woman who had seen a ring on my CustomMade website and wanted something similar. We ended up creating a variation with rough stones, which was a fairly new area for me. The ring I created is featured in a previous blog post.

Year in Review

2015 was a year all about family. My sister came down to California for several months and we had a blast. I was also busy making her 14k white gold anniversary rings. It was a very big job for me and I was thrilled to work on them. After several trials and tribulations on how I was going to approach it, I finally felt that hand engraving them would be the way to go. Using a push engraver, I created the leaves by hand. Here are some process photos and the finished rings I sent off to her.

Happiness

"The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything" -unknown

Just completed a Surface Pattern Design Class

I just finished up a Surface Pattern Design Class with "The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design." Very Inspirational!