Gold hoops with interchangeable charms

Ella’s hematite ring was metamorphosis 17! Since then, styles have changed and it was time to turn that ring into something else!

She mentioned she wanted some earrings and this idea immediately popped into my head. I used the small hematites from her ring and the silver to make the settings. I decided to add some moonstone charms as well so she could change them for a day/night look! As for the gold earrings, I traded her silver for what the gold earrings cost me. I don’t make this style hoop in small sizes as they are a lot of work and much cheaper to buy pre-made (because they’re usually machine-made).

As I mentioned in my earlier post, the point of Metamorphosis Redo is to show people that I don’t mind melting down things I’ve made in the past. Sometimes people are nervous to ask me to melt things that are outdated. Please don’t ever be nervous! Styles change and I am always happy to melt things down!

Charm Necklace

I really had no idea what I was going to make Cassie up until a week ago. I just couldn't figure it out. I asked her to send me some photos of jewellery she likes and had decided to make a bracelet based on one of the photos she sent me. Then I started overthinking the bracelet idea and decided to make a charm necklace. I think I took her jewellery out every day for two weeks and nothing came to me until finally one day I realized I could turn some of her rings into charms.

I made the honeycomb by hand. I melted gold, rolled it out, cut out some hexagons and filed down their edges. The yellow gold "C" charm and the diamond setting were from two different rings she had. I took the rings apart, re-engraved the faded "C", retipped the claws on the diamond setting, added some jump rings to both, and voila!

In case you're wondering about the honeycomb, Cassie's family owns the Honeybee Centre and she is basically my honey-dealer. And yes it would have made more sense for the honeycomb to be in yellow gold, but the "C" charm was yellow so I needed to create more balance. Plus, she mostly wears white metals.

This month's metamorphosis wasn't labour intensive but it sure did take awhile to come up with the idea. And sometimes less really is more: this month's metamorphosis really represents the project as a whole. The goal of metamorphosis is to try and repurpose what people have in the form it's already in. A lot of times I end up melting everything but it's cool when I can find ways to give something old, new life, without totally changing it.

This is the last metamorphosis of 2016! Next year I won't be doing monthly metamorphosis' but I will continue to do the project as people sign up for it. Stay-tuned! Interested? Details here.