More Help... maybe more than yellow?

[Siameseroo]

oh can't believe I missed this thread! Your zircon would look amazing in a 3 stone ring (I love mine so much!). Looking forward to seeing your finished piece(s)!

 

[arabella]

Oh wow, I am in love with the rings on this thread! I love them Yssie, I want a 3-stone just like yours one day! Can't wait to see pictures of it with your zircon!!

Also, I'd love an update on your peachy-stone search... that is something I have been searching for ever since I thought I got one from Gene's drop back in August (the tourmaline that Acinom posted earlier in the thread) but was a few seconds too slow in ordering

 

[Acinom]

Any news Yssie!

 

[yssie]

Not yet Acinom, but thank you for asking!

After going back and forth on the yellow zircon + RDG/Butterflies question for several weeks, and acquiring and for various reasons discarding a couple of other options (sunstone, darker pink tourmaline), I got my paws on a preloved peachy tourmaline cut by Gene some years ago. I've sent it and the yellow zircon back to Erika, who has the RDG, and requested her professional input on which stone would be a better fit both physically and aesthetically. I'll definitely be updating this thread requesting more CS opinions once I've heard back from her!!

 

[Acinom]

Exciting update Yssie! It's already clear you can add two 'new' (renewed) rings to your collection.

 

[packrat]

I'm so excited to see what you end up w/Yssie!

 

[yssie]

Some quick pics from Erika Winters

I originally wanted a yellow stone in this setting - the three metals are cream, pale yellow, and rich yellow, the side diamonds are (yellow) Js, and I liked the idea of sticking to one colour scheme... But the yellow zircon really is just too much. It's a beautiful stone but it's bright and bold and looks out of place in the very "soft", romantic, floral setting. The tourmaline, on the other hand... captures that feeling perfectly It's a ten-sided beauty that I recently bought pre-loved from another PSer and it transitions from very pink (like in this pic) to more peachy (under halogens), both of which will work well in this setting, I think.

And the JW yellow will go into my three-stone Butterflies setting with diamond sides after all

 

[yssie]

 

[Niel]

I'm going to post while just looking at the pics, having not read your opinion yet so I'm not swayed.

I think the pink is the right stone for that setting, and I think the yellow is the right one for your 3 stone, so with that in mind I think the choice is obvious. The colors of each setting just lend themselves to their perspective settings.

 

[Niel]

Some quick pics from Erika Winters

I originally wanted a yellow stone in this setting - the three metals are cream, pale yellow, and rich yellow, the side diamonds are (yellow) Js, and I liked the idea of sticking to one colour scheme... But the yellow zircon really is just too much. It's a beautiful stone but it's bright and bold and looks out of place in the very "soft", romantic, floral setting. The tourmaline, on the other hand... captures that feeling perfectly It's a ten-sided beauty that I recently bought pre-loved from another PSer and it transitions from very pink (like in this pic) to more peachy (under halogens), both of which will work well in this setting, I think.

And the JW yellow will go into my three-stone Butterflies setting with diamond sides after all

I had a feeling we had come to the same conclusions. Two beautiful rigs, now!

 

[Acinom]

Great decision Yssie. The pink looks stunning in the RDG ring.
You will have two fabulous rings. Yay!!!

The soft and dreamy RDG design matches so well with the softness of the pink.

 

[chrono]

You cannot go wrong with either one, really!

 

[yssie]

I'm going to post while just looking at the pics, having not read your opinion yet so I'm not swayed.

I think the pink is the right stone for that setting, and I think the yellow is the right one for your 3 stone, so with that in mind I think the choice is obvious. The colors of each setting just lend themselves to their perspective settings.

Thanks Niel. Part of me clung to the all-yellow idea because it was my first idea, so it must be the best, right..? But honestly, you're right - the settings and stones have paired themselves, and there's no point in mucking it up just for the sake of intervening

I'm super excited!! Erika said it'd have to wait until the Holiday rush is past, but I'm in no particular hurry - besides just wanting to see it

Great decision Yssie. The pink looks stunning in the RDG ring.
You will have two fabulous rings. Yay!!!

The soft and dreamy RDG design matches so well with the softness of the pink.

It really does I was disappointed to have missed the peachy tourmaline that you posted from one of Gene's drops in another thread (and disappointed that arabella missed it too!!) so when I found this one I jumped! I wasn't sure it would even fit, but Erika says they can make it work

You cannot go wrong with either one, really!

Not a bad place to be, all said and done I'd have been perfectly happy with the yellow in the RDG, had I had no alternatives. The downside of deciding to look for possible alternatives is... winding up with multiple coloured stones of exactly the same size and shape - I'm all about matching sets but this takes homogeneity to the extreme, even for me

And some very old responses that I'm embarrassed to have completely dropped the ball on :::::

Oh wow, I am in love with the rings on this thread! I love them Yssie, I want a 3-stone just like yours one day! Can't wait to see pictures of it with your zircon!!

Also, I'd love an update on your peachy-stone search... that is something I have been searching for ever since I thought I got one from Gene's drop back in August (the tourmaline that Acinom posted earlier in the thread) but was a few seconds too slow in ordering

Thank you!! I'm still thinking about sidestones - diamonds are easy, and obvious, but I rather want to try an all-CS ring

I was disapointed to learn that you hadn't got the peachy tourmaline in August!! But... just caught up on other threads and see that you got the pad sapphire from a more recent drop - and it is GORGEOUS!!! You got your peachy in the end I'm looking forward to seeing it set!

Welcome to the dark (colorful) side!

Thanks so much, Yssie! One of my "dream" rings is your 5-stone, but likely it is more realistic to focus on a 3-stone for now I just love the proportions!

lovedogs No worries at all - my sincere apologies for the ridiculously late reply
But I gotta say... you didn't need help, or the enabling jumping over to a fivestone your fivestone turned out beautifully!! I'm glad you went with the trellis wire arrangement modification from the original CAD - it's flowy, organic, and the combination of white metal and velvety blue is so classic yeah... she'll love that SD weather

Late to the thread, but you decided on what I was going to vote for-the three stone. I think it looked amazing when you had it loose in there.

Three-stone it is, finally final!! I had planned to have that done a looong time ago, then changed my mind, and now I've un-changed it again... (No, really. Finally final. Really.)

Please post photos when you get the three stone back! It looked GREAT sitting in the setting.

I definitely will!! It looked wonderful loose in the setting so I've got high hopes for both resets

oh can't believe I missed this thread! Your zircon would look amazing in a 3 stone ring (I love mine so much!). Looking forward to seeing your finished piece(s)!

I love your three-stone too - it's the perfect example of its style, I think Thank you!! I'm super excited to be definitively moving forward - one a definitive direction! - with both projects

 

[arabella]

Oh wow, I am in love with the rings on this thread! I love them Yssie, I want a 3-stone just like yours one day! Can't wait to see pictures of it with your zircon!!

Also, I'd love an update on your peachy-stone search... that is something I have been searching for ever since I thought I got one from Gene's drop back in August (the tourmaline that Acinom posted earlier in the thread) but was a few seconds too slow in ordering

Thank you!! I'm still thinking about sidestones - diamonds are easy, and obvious, but I rather want to try an all-CS ring

I was disapointed to learn that you hadn't got the peachy tourmaline in August!! But... just caught up on other threads and see that you got the pad sapphire from a more recent drop - and it is GORGEOUS!!! You got your peachy in the end I'm looking forward to seeing it set!

Aww thanks Yssie!! Yes, it is a totally beautiful peachy pink color outdoors but it shifts all over the place from orangey-red to orangey-pink in other lighting. I love your tourmaline find -- how perfect and meant to be! It looks beautiful in the RDG!!

 

[lovedogs]

Thanks so much, Yssie! One of my "dream" rings is your 5-stone, but likely it is more realistic to focus on a 3-stone for now I just love the proportions!

lovedogs No worries at all - my sincere apologies for the ridiculously late reply
But I gotta say... you didn't need help, or the enabling jumping over to a fivestone your fivestone turned out beautifully!! I'm glad you went with the trellis wire arrangement modification from the original CAD - it's flow, organic, and the combination of white metal and velvety blue is so classic yeah... she'll love that SD weather

Aww, thanks Yssie! That means a lot to me coming from you. And I LOVE these pieces and the colors you've chosen work perfectly. The tourmaline is dreamy in that setting