Spring 2012 Giveaway! New Design - Galaxy Ring

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Finally! It is here! For those of you that don't follow me on facebook, I've been giving hints all week for a big giveaway that I am announcing today!

The details:

I am giving away one custom ring in my new galaxy ring design. It is 5mm wide with stars and optional diamonds in my new palladium/silver alloy. The sample ring in the photos has one large star and 3 smaller stars and 3 2mm diamonds. Number of stars and diamonds is totally up to the winner (though, no more than 3 diamonds). My plan for making it more "manly" when I do the full set, will be less stars and less diamonds, a little more simple and with just the texture and possibly one star... It also include optional engraving.



The value of this ring is $480.

And as a special surprise, I decided to also do a 2nd prize of a $50 gift certificate towards anything jewelry in either of my shops.

and now the important info!

How to Enter

1. You must follow me on my facebook page or my blog

Your name will be entered in the drawing once for each of the following

*follow on facebook
*follow on blog
*follow on twitter
*repost on facebook
*repost on blog
*repost on twitter
*join my mailing list
*pin one of these ring photo on pinterest

(your name could be entered a total of 8 times)

2. Leave a comment on this blog post letting me know

a. where you follow me, if you reposted or joined my mailing list
(if you are currently on the mailing list, you don't need to sign up again)

b. let me know what nature theme you would like to see in a ring set
OR let me know your current favorite design

Winners will be chosen on April 17th.

*I will be using random.org to choose the winners. Each name will be assigned a number. Let's say Christina enters 7 times, she'll have numbers 1 - 7 assigned to her. The first number chosen will be the winner of the ring, the 2nd number chosen will be the winner of the $50 gift certificate. If I'm not able to contact the winner through a message on facebook or email, I will announce their name here on the blog.

More photos can be seen on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bcyrjewelry/
or on my facebook page.

Thanks for participating! :)

Where I've been and Where I'm going....

So this title sounds a bit more 'deep thinking' than its really meant to be, but it might be fitting!

I've been really busy that last two weeks wrapping up all the custom orders for any June/early July weddings. I will be taking two weeks away from the studio for a yoga teacher training course starting on June 5th. I will be back in the studio on June 21st - but during that time, I will not be making any jewelry! I'm pretty excited on many levels.

The photos are all the rings I made in the last week and a half - it was a HUGE push - which is why I haven't been around here much! I wanted to make sure everything got done that needed to be done. I got them all finished and then some. There are a few more rings I'll be finishing up today that aren't in the photos - though I think they may deserve their own photo finishes. :)

I'm also really excited to be embarking on my yoga teacher training journey. The first session is 2 weeks this summer. The second session will be in January of 2011. I haven't been this excited about something in a long time... well, I don't know about that. I'm a pretty excitable person. But this does feel different in terms of it being a major life changing experience. I'm debating blogging about it over the next two weeks. If not during, I definitely will after it is all over.

I'm very interested to see how it affects my jewelry as well. I haven't taken a two week break, well, since I started my business full time in 2006.

Oh, and I'm getting my hair all chopped off. Big Changes! I'll post some before and after photos :)

Dandelion Rings and Tea Tab Quote of the Day

I had a custom order for the men's band and finally got photos of a set taken of the gold dandelion wish bands. I think they turned out so lovely and with the giant crop of dandelions everywhere, its the perfect ring to post for today! Doing them in yellow gold seems so natural. Love them!

and there was a new tea tab quote today! The past few days have all been repeats. This one may be from a long time ago... but I don't think I have posted it before.

True wealth is the ability to let go of your possessions.

have a great day!!!
xoxo

Tea Tab Quote of the Day and studio update

Yay for springtime!

Well, my tea tab quotes may be a bit on the way out. I think they must have one for each of the tea bags in the box, but I am starting to have more and more repeats. Today's was a new one though!

Serve humanity so that people feel we are kind to them.

Indeed.

Things here in the studio are quite busy. And by "quite" I mean, the busiest I've ever been. Its very good and very exciting, and I'm doing much better about prioritizing, which means my computer time is being cut short so I can stay on top of the incoming orders. This means my blogging time is one of the first to go, especially w/ repeated quotes coming in! I've been trying to take photos of the week's groupings, though I often mail out a few during the week, but this is one shot from last week:


and from the weekend's batch (I normally take most of the weekend off, but this was a little bit of a work weekend)


(These are also counting as my ring-a-days #90 - 104!)

New Rings - Redwoods

I had a customer request something similar to this a couple months ago and since then I've been wanting to create an offshoot of my tree bark collection and call it Redwoods - a heavier and chunkier tree bark texture cast in 14k red gold. EtsyMetal has a new wedding ring challenge and I figured this was a good excuse to create them. I also made a simple twig engagement ring to go with it. I used a chocolate diamond for a nice earthy look with the red/rose gold. A very light patina has been added for a final touch. I really love the look of them and I hope many other people do too!

14k Palladium White Gold Subtlety Set

Oy! Where have I been?! busy busy and feeling like I have things pretty organized and under control. Though that does mean I've been lacking in A. editing photos. B. uploading photos. which then leads to C. blogging! Both flickr and blog have been sorely neglected, though my jewelry has not been. So I say this is a good thing, though it does portray me as a bit on the boring side. And it does leave my RAD #'s needing to be organized...

I do have a new lovely set to share - Subtlety Bands in 14k palladium white gold. The photos got taken, edited and listed on Etsy in my wedding shop! So they are the winners for the week, while other designs got neglected and are sitting unedited on my desktop. Maybe this week...

Oh the Busy-ness!

Well, sadly I am very behind in posting lots of things... but for right now it is just my ring for the day which was also the etsymetal project runway "heart" challenge for this week. I really didn't want to do a heart anything, but I decided to suck it up and just do something quickly that I would wear and quit whining about it! So here it is! A little organic vine heart ring w/ patina that fits me. The heart is very subtle - camouflaged in the vines you might say! ha ha!

Ring a Day #32-36

Some of these rings may at first glance appear to be 'cheat' rings... and well, maybe they are - but they are all somewhat experimental variations of previous rings. So I'm counting them!

#36 - the paperclip triangle

#35 - Palladium Sterling - a new alloy I'm just starting to work with!

#34 - 3mm love rocks milled down from a little piece of 5mm stock, and with a new gold patina. Its different from the previous one I had and I'm not sure I like it - its the first time I used it... so we'll see...

#33 - 2mm love rocks - milled down from a tiny piece of scrap 5mm stock - so proud of myself! I couldn't believe I'd managed to use that little chunk and turn it in to a ring I wanted to make. Granted, it is a sz 4, but it fits me just perfect :)

#32 - two rings, but since they are a pair I'm counting them as one! The new palladium sterling alloy with a satin finish and a more subtle texture than usual.

Ring a Day #27, #28

Two more down - I'd planned on blogging these last night, but time got away from me.

The blue sapphire ring is one of my 'cheat' rings. I'd had it sitting around unfinished for months and finally got a stone in that was suitable to fit in the seat I'd already cut! (long story...) So I got it finished up and used it for my ring a day - without the challenge, it would probably still be sitting around waiting to be finished!




The burlap ring was inspired by the project runway challenge that is due today. I suppose the ring could double as the challenge piece, but its not going to :). I have a pendant using burlap that is almost finished and is much more of a worth piece for the project runway challenge.


Which, by the way, I have forgotten to mention has started back again. I missed the first week due to the craziness of having to get my taxes in order with 4 days notice. It threw everything in to a frenzy!

Ring a Day #21 - 26

I had to get my taxes done and well, they took a little bit of priority over me posting photos online and blogging!
But here are rings from the past, oh... week or so!

#26

#25

#24 and #23

#22

#21

Ring A Day - #16, 17, 18,19,20

I've been making rings and photographing them, but they were all on the camera or I just hadn't blogged about them - I've been busy and away from the computer more than usual (which is probably a good thing I guess!) But it also shows in my lack of creativity in my rings! Ah well... at least they are done and I'm still trucking on...

#20 (I wear this one a lot actually! ha ha!)

#19

#18

#17

#16

Ring A Day - #15

another bandaid cover up - a bummer my photographing hand got injured, hopefully it'll heal up real soon!

Ring A Day - #14

Today my poor little hands and finger had a rough day, so I covered up the band aid with a fancy alligator skin ring! :)

Ring A Day - #13

I made a tree bark ring in tape! Using the exact same method and movements as I make the tree bark rings in wax, I used tape, a pencil, graphite stick and a pen to create a similar two dimensional look.

I think tomorrow I might layer different images through the tape.... maybe... So many ideas!!

Ring A Day - #11 and #12

Yay! all caught up to the proper day. I'll just be doing one a day again :)

#11 - ribbon and more saran wrap - who knew i would love it so much as a material!

#12 - usb cable - I think I have more usb cables than one should have....

Ring A Day - #8

Its simple and has probably been done a million times, but there is something really beautiful and elegant about this one to me!

Ring A Day - #5 and #6

Two for today as I get caught up!

The 'real' ring is one I have been meaning to finish for, well, months now! And today was a great day to get it finished and count it for one of my 'ring a day' entries.

The other fun ring I made was with the string and tab from a mug of tea this afternoon.

I finished 4 other rings today too, but they are all getting mailed out, so I won't count them....

Ring A Day - #4

Sticking w/ the leaf theme for today! I'm not sure what kind of leaf it is though.... and a hair band!

I've also decided that I'm going to go back and make up the first three days - it'll just be easier to figure out what number I'm on if it corresponds w/ the day...