Sunday, July 23, 2006
One of the greatest things I have ever done...
Today was one of the most beautiful days of my life. One of the most beautiful days in our life as a couple for sure. I will be forever grateful to my boss for giving us the information about this wedding ring workshop, it was the best thing we have done so far for this wedding.
I don't think there could be anything more loving and romantic than making a wedding band for your future spouse, that he/she will wear every day for the rest of his/her life. Sure, I was worried about my performance as a novice goldsmith, seeing as I consider myself a rather clumsy person when it comes to crafty things, and I am most certainly a very impatient person when it comes to small and detailed work that needs some real and undivided attention for a long time. I was afraid I would give up before I got to any real results, and that The Fiancé would have to take over and finish his own ring, because I would be just about ready to throw my work out of the window with all my impatience and my need for immediate results that require no detailed labor.
The opposite was the case - I found myself diligently and carefully working on The Fiancé's ring, making sure it would be a piece of jewellery I could be proud of having crafted and he would be proud of wearing every day, and I asked him for help only a few times when I didn't have the necessary strength in my arthritic hands to bend the metal correctly, or to get a particularly deep scratch out.
The results of today are two beautiful raw and rough unfinished white gold rings, that only need an hour or so more of sanding, and then a good polishing before they will shine in all their beauty and glory, and can be sent off to have the black/white diamonds put in, and our personal engraving done on the inside.
It was one of the most wonderful and amazing things to see a square stick of metal slowly morph into a beautiful ring with sharp oval diameter under my hands... I admit that at times I was questioning myself and my ability to make this unshapely piece of metal with sharp edges and uneven curvature into something beautiful at some point, yet I did it, and the process was wonderful. Making those rings and having been so intimately involved in their creation has made them so much more special than they could ever have been, if we would have just walked into any jewelry store and picked out a pair that we may have liked. They will be gifts that come truly from our heart not only in meaning, but in their creation as well, and are absolutely unique. My energy and soul is in The Fiancé's ring, and his love and devotion went into mine when we were smithing them from a soulless piece of square metal.
Nobody will ever have appreciated the gift of a ring more than we will, come 9/9/06.
Let me share some of our day with you in pictures...
I don't think there could be anything more loving and romantic than making a wedding band for your future spouse, that he/she will wear every day for the rest of his/her life. Sure, I was worried about my performance as a novice goldsmith, seeing as I consider myself a rather clumsy person when it comes to crafty things, and I am most certainly a very impatient person when it comes to small and detailed work that needs some real and undivided attention for a long time. I was afraid I would give up before I got to any real results, and that The Fiancé would have to take over and finish his own ring, because I would be just about ready to throw my work out of the window with all my impatience and my need for immediate results that require no detailed labor.
The opposite was the case - I found myself diligently and carefully working on The Fiancé's ring, making sure it would be a piece of jewellery I could be proud of having crafted and he would be proud of wearing every day, and I asked him for help only a few times when I didn't have the necessary strength in my arthritic hands to bend the metal correctly, or to get a particularly deep scratch out.
The results of today are two beautiful raw and rough unfinished white gold rings, that only need an hour or so more of sanding, and then a good polishing before they will shine in all their beauty and glory, and can be sent off to have the black/white diamonds put in, and our personal engraving done on the inside.
It was one of the most wonderful and amazing things to see a square stick of metal slowly morph into a beautiful ring with sharp oval diameter under my hands... I admit that at times I was questioning myself and my ability to make this unshapely piece of metal with sharp edges and uneven curvature into something beautiful at some point, yet I did it, and the process was wonderful. Making those rings and having been so intimately involved in their creation has made them so much more special than they could ever have been, if we would have just walked into any jewelry store and picked out a pair that we may have liked. They will be gifts that come truly from our heart not only in meaning, but in their creation as well, and are absolutely unique. My energy and soul is in The Fiancé's ring, and his love and devotion went into mine when we were smithing them from a soulless piece of square metal.
Nobody will ever have appreciated the gift of a ring more than we will, come 9/9/06.
Let me share some of our day with you in pictures...
