My Family/Generational Ring is here!

CDNTech · Jan 9, 2009

I've been wearing a daughter's pride ring since I was 9 years old (haven't taken it off in 21 years tomorrow!), but I've been wanting to upgrade to a family ring to include dh and our boys in my ring... I didn't want to get rid of my parents stones though since they've been with me so long. I was looking at doing all six of the stones flush mount and scattered in a band and then did a little more thinking. I know as I add to my family over the years, I'll want to add more stones... so we decided to represent all the birth months in an eternity band as a family/generational band. That way no matter who we add to the family, they will be represented on the ring. If I include my immediate family (dh & the boys) and my immediate family growing up, then we have 11 of the 12 months covered already anyway. There was only room for 10 gemstones on the ring (the diamonds are April), so technically I'm missing one month... but June can traditionally be an Emerald, so June and May are sharing... because it works for me.

My ring came in tonight... we designed it back in November. It's gorgeous and I love it!

Alternating rounds and squares eternity band in 19kt white gold... thanks to Geckodani who posted the link/photo of the cast. The rounds are all 3pt brilliant cut diamonds. The squares are all 5pt step cut gemstones... I just told them carre/asscher/baguette, as long as it was a step cut. They weren't sure if they could do step cuts, so I also said a princess would be fine, but these look like step cuts to me.

The Gemstones are (in order) Red Garnet, Orange Sapphire, Peridot, Pink Sapphire, Amethyst, Blue Topaz, Ruby, Aquamarine, Emerald, and a Blue Sapphire.

Just some quick pics tonight as I don't have any nice lighting... hopefully tomorrow will be sunny out and I can get some good pictures.

CDNTech · Jan 9, 2009

Another pic...

CDNTech · Jan 9, 2009

One more... for now.

~*Alexis*~ · Jan 9, 2009

I like that ring! What vendor did you get it from?

Lets see the blue stone and the other side!!

CDNTech · Jan 9, 2009

The stones are really not showing up well in this lighting... I promise I''ll be back with more photos going around the entire ring once it''s light out.

I tried two vendors through here, but neither would do it for me because of some of the stones I wanted in it... so I ended up having it done locally by the same company that did my wedding re-set... People''s (aka Mappins/Zales). I took them a picture of the casting and told them what I wanted done.

mommy2iz · Jan 9, 2009

OMG - i puffy heart

your ring, and want one just like it! it''s so cool!!!! can''t wait to see more pics!!!!!!!!!

geckodani · Jan 9, 2009

Yay!!!! It looks great! And what a sweet sentiment behind it too! I can''t wait to see more pics - from the teasers it looks stupendous!

kittybean · Jan 9, 2009

Awesome ring! I can't wait for more pics. It looks gorgeous, and it will be such a wonderful heirloom.

ETA: What is a daughter's pride ring?

marcy · Jan 9, 2009

Very pretty ring. I really like it.

missjaxon · Jan 9, 2009

What a great idea.... very pretty!

Rhea · Jan 10, 2009

Very unique and pretty! We could use some more photos though

beechezz · Jan 10, 2009

Just awesome! So unique....I love, love, love it!

Tuckins1 · Jan 10, 2009

Oooohhh... I love it! Is it an eternity?

Buffy01 · Jan 10, 2009

Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!! , finally something different. What a beautiful ring, and a wonderful sentimental piece. Enjoy!!!

Amanda.Rx · Jan 10, 2009

What a special piece of jewelry! It''s lovely! We''d love to see more pics once you get the chance!

Catmom · Jan 10, 2009

What a cool idea!

ckrickett · Jan 10, 2009

I love it!

steph72276 · Jan 10, 2009

What a cool ring!

K9 · Jan 10, 2009

I read more than post these days, but I had to chime in to tell you how much I ADORE your ring! You must be absolutely delighted to have had it come out so lovely!!! It''s beautiful!

I too would like to know what a daughter''s pride ring is? I have never heard of it.

icekid · Jan 10, 2009

so pretty! What a lovely idea.

CDNTech · Jan 10, 2009

Thank you for the compliments everyone!

A daughter''s pride ring is a ring given by parents to their daughter. It has three stones... mom''s birthstone, daughter''s birthstone in the middle, and father''s birthstone.

Mine was a center heart with a garnet in it (my birthstone) and two hearts joined to the center heart with my parents birthstones (Sapphire and Diamond). It was set in yellow gold and I''ve been wearing it since I was 9 (21 years ago today!).

CDNTech · Jan 10, 2009

You asked for more pictures and I went a little crazy... hope you don''t get bored.

First up... all three of my new pretties together! I apologize, but for some reason I just can not a take a picture without having at least one piece of fuzz/hair attached to my center diamond.