My last 2 handcrafted recycled sterling silver Labradorite rings sold at Makers Central, such a popular stones, especially with their deep jewel coloured flashes made them so irresistable, so I needed to create a new collection in tie for The Pop up in the Palmhouse Spring Market

So my small labradorite rings was a big hit, and it was on my to do list to make some more, but as with most things time wasn't un my side as there were other things I wanted to make for Makers Central, especially as I still had one ring left.

Until that sweet Cinderella moment, when it sold, so I needed to create a new collection in time for Pop up in the Palmhouse.

Raiding my stash of small labradorite stones, I was immediately drawn to the geometrical squares and rectangular shapes which I knew I wanted to make rings with.

From my previous blog post, Labradorite what's not to like???  you will know that I love to use my new star stamps when working with Labradorite stones as it 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 pieces look like a galaxy.

This square labradorite stone, caught the inner magpie in me, and the only problem I had was deciding which way to set it, as a square or as a diamond, as the flashes of this stone are so immense in both orientations, and I kept going back and forth with it until finally deciding to go with the diamond with a stamped square ring shank, making it truly contemporary:
 

Handcrafted SS Diamond Labradorite Star Stamped Square Ring

Whilst checking out the Labradorite stash I had put aside 3 teardrop stones, not my favourite shape to work with and create jewellery with, but each had such amazing Labradoressence for different reasons, one became a ring, but I used a different stamp on the ring shank to shake things up a bit:

Handcrafted SS Teardrop Labradorite Stamped Ring

This has to be my favourite Labradorite stone I used within this collection, I mean what's not to love when looking at this jewel green flash?

And as I was working on the pendant setting I decided to change things up a little by adding an small embellishment and a stamped pattern.

Again I had to decide which way was up with piece depending on how much of the dramatic and moody flash would be revealed:
 

Handcrafted SS Teardrop Labradorite Star Stamped Pendant

Labradorite comes in all diffrent colours and shades of colours including blue, purple and orange, so naurally I would be drawn to this light green grey stripy stone, which I orginally wanted to make into a ring, but found it a bit to big and chunky.

I added a small embellishment of fine silver ball, as the first setting I created wasn't up to muster, so I melted down the bezel to use in the new setting:
 

Handcrafted SS Teardrop Labradorite Pendant

What do you think?

Which is your favourite design?

I would love to hear your comments below

Joolz xxx

May 22, 2023