Tudor Ring
[sterling silver]
I’ve been watching The Tudors.
It’s a pretty good show and offers a fascinating look into history, a smattering of scandal and while I’ve been told I’m a rather naive person (blame it on the late blooming), it’s shocking to see that the dark portion of human nature is consistent over recorded history.
There have always been jealous people scrapping with virtuous people and foxy men and women fighting for power: good men and women, bad men and women, people selling sex for position and rank, heart breaking and mending and the handful who are able to think independently (even if it means martyrdom) taking stands for what is right and good. History repeats itself.
When is someone going to come up with something new!???
HA HA!
That said, my favorite thing about The Tudors is when I get a close up glimpse at a fabulous piece of jewelry strung around Anne Boleyn’s detestable little neck! Incredible!
Ornate.
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I was flipping through my jewelry box the other night and I found a vintage pearl and zircon brooch my mum gave me a couple of years ago. I was in the mood for something Tudor-ish out in the studio so I cast the face of the brooch in sterling and then made it into a ring. I’d hate to see it on a Boleyn finger, but it might look magnificent on you! It’s heavy and lightly burnished so it merrily shines.
Tudoriffic!
so ornate and perfect.
so proper and victorian.
[i'm still waiting for you to cast something from battlestar galactica….HAHha!]
xx
…perhaps a cylon finger???
GUFFAW!
no.
well, maybe.
if it were jewel'd and all sci-fi-ish….i'd wear it….
BRILLIANT! And beautiful!
What a fabulous idea. I hope this is the beginning of a new series!?! I need me some Tudor jewelry.
xo
Love this piece! Beautiful work.
It turned out beautifully!
oh Tudors… I found it on-demand months ago and a lonely weekend I watched it back-to-back.. Always been so fascinated by that era's jewelry and clothing.. Now I can't stop watching Games of Thrones.
Mash: 🙂 xxx
Brandi: Thanks chickadee!
Tess: I know! The clothing a jewelry is making me bonkers. Love it. A feast for the senses!!!
Had to look at it a few times…most certainly beautiful!
Gorgeously done!
Are your hands feeling better? They are looking quite fine…creative…
xo
MLJ: Thanks, lady!
Andrea: Thank you! And my hands are feeling better — literally and figuratively. I've been lathering them in aloe from my plant which is the very best (and natural) medicine for these hands…besides holding onto RW.
🙂
x
…I know…..I know……that last bit about my fellow is so sappy…but it's so true.
prefer the day that you prepared and seem like for you Dear Friends it look so great and wonderful as you say and No one can't refused it for kind of pretty place….