I mentioned a special project just before I left on vacation. The results are in, and I have enormous giddiness to tell you all that I got engaged while I was away!
The special project was that I made the engagement ring! I have a very good friend who is a hobby jeweler. I asked him if he could make an engagement ring for me, and he countered by saying that I should make it! We started on November 13th of 2014, and finally finished* on January 25th, a mere 6 days before we left for Costa Rica.
(*we aren’t done…but it’s “done enough”)
In the end, I did about 90% of the work on this, with the remaining 10% being any incredibly fiddly work, or some points where the only job was changing a temperature every 4 hours. (He was good enough to take that one on, one Sunday since he lives above his workshop and I live 20 minutes away). But even with those numbers, this project would have been 0% successful if not for the support and patience of this friend.
I’m going to start this off with a photo of the end result, and on my regular schedule (every 3 days) we’ll walk through the entire process of starting from nothing, and ending with…
A silver ring.
(oh, also, GottaCon in Victoria is coming up, so this might be interspersed with photos of Kaeris, Ramos, Johanna and Arcane Effigy who need painting before I go…)
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