Inner Solace

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A friend of mine and his wife are both photographers.  For their marriage they asked a friend skilled in jewelry making to create wedding rings based on the first Leica 50mm Summilux lens.  His band is the focusing ring while hers is the aperture ring. The jeweler included a hand made miniature Leica M3 body to complete the set. 

There are some incredibly creative ideas being used for bridal jewelry these days. Fantastic.

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I’m captivated by this Ouroboros design.  I don’t know if it’s something I’d wear, but it’s beautiful to look at.

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Moss Ring by cometman and kokeya | Spoon & Tamago

I’ve seen a few different designers try their hand at living jewelry and it always looks kinda neat.  But I wonder if anyone who buys them ends up accidentally killing the plant/ring/bracelet by bumping it against something or other, or forgetting to take it off before washing their hands.

Using Japanese swordmaking techniques to create metal with “wood grain” - Core77

Ask your fiancee if she’d like her wedding ring to be made using a Samurai swordmaking technique, and you’ll probably get a resounding “No;”

What? Woah there. Slow down. No?

… you might as well ask her if she’d like the ceremony to be performed by ninjas.

Wait wait wait. Hey. Stereotype much. Okay, perhaps the writer is thinking of a different demographic that is neither Japanophile, nor geek, nor familiar with the timeless debate of Pirates vs Ninjas.

But metalworker James Binnion has researched a rather unusual metalworking technique used by Japanese swordcrafters, and adapted it to make very unique jewelry.

The art of Japanese sword-craft is incredible. Click through to read more a brief description of how it works. To extend the method to crafting jewelry doesn’t seem quite right, but it creates such beautiful pieces.

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Tiffany & Co. have released an engagement ring finder for the iPhone.  Start with figuring out your ring size and then go from there.

design is mine : isn’t it lovely?: cut here…

Odd and yet… kinda cool… in an odd way.

Pac Man ring set (via IDEA*IDEA)

Max Fringe Necklace | Design Milk

There’s something about this necklace that I find quite neat.

Batucada necklaces. V. Pretty.