Kelly & Missy contacted me and asked me to design commitment rings for them.
They talked of their love of hunting for rocks and relics on creek beds and of paddling on the river Frio in Texas. They saw the river as an appropriate metaphor for how life's ebb and flow had brought them together.
I transposed the contour of their favourite section of the river Frio onto their rings and set them with rough diamond and sapphire cubes.

Karen inherited a beautiful emerald cut diamond from her mother and commissioned me to set it in a ring for her. She sent pictures of rings she'd seen which she quite liked, and patiently answered my numerous questions about her likes and dislikes.
The effervescent design she chose is shown above. Natural colored diamonds are set around the ring, their colour changes gradually from a deep orange-yellow at the base through golden yellow and pale yellow to her beautiful emerald cut white diamond.
Thank you very much for choosing me to set your family heirloom Karen.

Will asked me to make a ring for his wife Jodi to compliment a ring I had made for her a few years ago. He wanted the design to compliment her existing ring so that she could either wear them together or separately. Her pinstriped diamond and yellow sapphire ring is inscribed inside with a message from Will in his own handwriting.

Ben asked Helen to marry him at the Luminox festival in Oxford, England. The Luminox is a magical three days when Oxford's dreaming spires are transformed into a spectacular and beautiful environment with large-scale fire installations. So to remind her of that romantic night her firework ring incorporates flame colored sapphires together with her favourite colour green.

John asked Emily to marry him whilst at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert. Emily e-mailed me to tell me about the wonderfully romantic moment John proposed:

"John had preceded me in his arrival to the desert and had worked with our camp of about 60 friends to stage the moment that he would ask me and they would all be in attendance. We gathered under the auspices of a group photo shoot at sunset. After the photos were taken everyone circled around and John started to give a speech (not uncommon for him) about friendship and how great it was for everyone to be there. And then he, along with 50 of our friends, dropped to their knees. He asked "Will You Marry Me?!" And the rest of the crowd parroted, "Will You Marry Him?". My jaw hit the ground. Instead of a ring, he took a zip tie with a bead tied to it and zipped it to my finger. Unbeknownst to him, this was a dream ring come true. I'd always fantasized that the engagement ring I would wear would come from the heart, a gumball machine or an improvised form. I couldn't have been more thrilled".

A year after John proposed Emily still wore her bead ring (see photo above) and was rather reluctant to part with it. However she asked me to make a wedding ring for her using her zip tie bead ring as the basis for the design. The chosen design (shown above) incorporates a spinning yellow diamond studded gold bead to remind her of John's wonderfully inventive original engagement ring that meant so much to her.

Christopher commissioned me to design a ring for his wife Carolynn.
We discussed a theme for Carolynn's ring...Christopher wrote:

'Carolynn loves geology and science, especially picking through rocks and tidal pools. She likes finding all the little stuff that you don't see at first glance. I think the happiest thing in her whole life will be doing this with our children Walter and little Jack in tow.'

Together we designed Carolynn's rockpool ring to remind her of those happy afternoons spent at the ocean.

Alan commissioned me to make an engagement ring for Tina. He asked me to design a simple, elegant ring with a wave theme -
a reminder of their fondest first date spent at the beach.
Two 18k white gold waves hold in place an oval one carat diamond, with an inscription inside in Alan's own handwriting.

Thank you to you both. It was a pleasure to work with Alan on the design of this ring, I'm so pleased it was such a hit.

Jacob commissioned me to design a pendant for his wife Yunna. He wanted it to complement the engagement ring and earrings I had made for her, but take a different direction in design.

Here is Yunna’s pod pendant. The inside of the 18k white gold pod is lined with bezel set sapphires and diamonds.