Labradorite is always a stone that draws customers to my stand at markets, and I prize the blue flashes of the stones, and take this into consideration when setting the stones as this is what sells the pieces.

Although big statement rings are very popular, I do have a few customers who feel that they are not right for their fingers and hands, so with this in mind I decided to make a couple of smaller statement labradorite rings, whilst trying out my new artisan handcrafted stamps from America

Going throught my stash of blue flash labradorite cabochons, a rectangular stone really caught my eye, and my inner magpie thought how wonderful this would be as a ring?

When I make my rings, I do so intuitively, and the final design only happens when the piece is complete, that said I knew what I wanted the ring shank to be stamped, with stars.

The reason for this you may ask?

Labradorite is a transformation healing stone, a crystal of magic, so what is more magical than stars, and as I have 3 star stamps of different sizes I could make the band look like a galaxy.

Once I created the 2 ring settings, I really wanted to make this ring a contemporary piece of wearable art, but was thinking is a rectangular stone on a square ring shank too much???

In the words of Luther Vandross, Never Too Much, I threw caution to the wind and created the ring:

Handcrafted SS Rectangular Labradorite Star Stamped Square Ring

As too the question was the design too much?

Well this baby is now in it's forever home, as it sold the day after I made it at the Bishton Hall Spring Fair, to a love lady who loves contemporary rings!!!

For those who prefer the more tradition ring design I made this super cute teardrop labradorite ring, with the most amazing blue flash, it's truly mesmerising:
 

As much as I love the labradoressence of this fabulous healing crystal, I seem to be going through a rough healing crystal stage, and in the past I've looved the frosty effect tis type of stone gives, so when I was offered some druzy top labradorite I jumped at the chance to buy some!


With druzy labradorite cabochons there are 3 things to be aware of:

1. These are rough top or druzy so invariably the stone is not flat,
2. Rough top cabochons tend to be a little more fragile are they may not have been stablised, and
3. It can be harder to find the best labradoressence of the stone, as its not always apparent

But taking all these factors into considerating when creating the setting to hols the stone, and which was the best orientation of the stone in relations to the ring shank, I was able to create a contemporary ring.

As the stone is so dramatic, with is dark electric blue flash, I didn't want anything to detract from its natural beauty and textured the ring shank sympathetically:
 

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April 26, 2023

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