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So I've had this pink mahenge spinel sitting around for two years. Since I first saw them I've adored Chrono's pear spinel halo and BrightIce's pear spinel halo - they've been my favorite rings other than my engagement ring for years now. This ring was going to be my version. But when I went to try on similar halos... I didn't like how they looked on my hand. They just weren't me. I like chunkier rings, that's just all there is to it. Skinny bands, skinny halos, they look great but aren't my thing. Which left me stumped. I had a folder full of inspiration ideas and none of them really spoke to me. (Also, try finding pear settings with fancy galleries. It's nearly impossible. Most of them are either empty or look like the prow of a cruise ship, and I do not mean that as a compliment.)
Eventually my 30th birthday was coming up and I really wanted to set this stone, but kind of decided that maybe I should do something else instead. At any rate I was gripped by indecision. BUT THEN I saw NKOTB's cuprian tourmaline in this scalloped/spiky halo and it was love at first sight. I waited less than a full day before contacting Elle at The Gemstone Project to get started with an Intrepide halo of my own. I'd say this is much less deliberating than usual, but I suppose I'd really been deliberating for two years! I also ordered one of her Accolade bands to go with it.
I received it yesterday and it is perfect. Exactly like what I imagined when I first saw NKOTB's and started thinking about it for my stone. Elle was beyond patient with my many emails and with what I felt were my numerous nitpicky changes, and I felt like she really understood the changes I wanted and why I wanted them and was effectively able to communicate them to David for the CADs. Feeling like I was working with someone on the same wavelength really made the process so much easier. I first contacted Elle on June 30, I approved the final CAD on July 29, and I received the rings on August 23, so about eight weeks start to finish, which is the quickest I've ever had a custom project completed.
Here are the pictures from David Klass:
And my first Olloclip shot:
Eventually my 30th birthday was coming up and I really wanted to set this stone, but kind of decided that maybe I should do something else instead. At any rate I was gripped by indecision. BUT THEN I saw NKOTB's cuprian tourmaline in this scalloped/spiky halo and it was love at first sight. I waited less than a full day before contacting Elle at The Gemstone Project to get started with an Intrepide halo of my own. I'd say this is much less deliberating than usual, but I suppose I'd really been deliberating for two years! I also ordered one of her Accolade bands to go with it.
I received it yesterday and it is perfect. Exactly like what I imagined when I first saw NKOTB's and started thinking about it for my stone. Elle was beyond patient with my many emails and with what I felt were my numerous nitpicky changes, and I felt like she really understood the changes I wanted and why I wanted them and was effectively able to communicate them to David for the CADs. Feeling like I was working with someone on the same wavelength really made the process so much easier. I first contacted Elle on June 30, I approved the final CAD on July 29, and I received the rings on August 23, so about eight weeks start to finish, which is the quickest I've ever had a custom project completed.
Here are the pictures from David Klass:
And my first Olloclip shot:
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