{"id":183,"date":"2012-08-09T19:01:19","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T19:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/?p=183"},"modified":"2014-07-20T17:11:08","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T17:11:08","slug":"love-is-like-being-on-your-own-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/09\/love-is-like-being-on-your-own-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Love is Like Being on Your Own Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/glasssmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-212\" title=\"glasssmall\" src=\"http:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/glasssmall-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is my new wedding band. My very beautiful oval and white gold set no longer fits me after a huge weight loss last year. I&#8217;ve worn a variety of rings in the past year while I worked on this design.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to incorporate a few specific elements, but the celestial theme did not emerge until later. Some of my pieces are this way, instead of starting out with a fully formed idea, I can only partially visualize what I want to accomplish. Other pieces start in a much more precise fashion. Although ring design certainly requires strict attention to some details both in the technical (micro) and abstract (macro) senses, the concept of a ring blank leaves the artist with a relatively open canvas.<\/p>\n<p>In my design research I came across a reprint of an old book that contained many drawings and descriptions of posey rings from the middle ages. These were usually fairly simple bands engraved with a motto of love. Many were in Latin, some in English, and one had the charming inscription, &#8220;Lel ami avet.&#8221; Translated from Old French it means, &#8220;You have a loyal friend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I knew I wanted this somewhere on the ring that symbolizes the beautiful marriage that I have enjoyed with my best friend and love of my life for 19 years. I also wanted our names on there, or rather the truncated concatenation of our names as suggested by our friends many years ago, &#8216;Seannln&#8217;. The motto is inscribed on the inside of the ring, our names on the outside.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/planetsmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-207\" title=\"planetsmall\" src=\"http:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/planetsmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also knew that I wanted the ends of the ring to wrap around itself and taper to tendrils like a banner. At some point I decided on stars, but before I got to that point, I thought it looked a little plain. I went through my scrap pile with my punches and chasing tools, but I couldn&#8217;t really find the look I wanted. Then I decided to try a tool that I had made. It was designed for closing jump rings, but the lip around the convex center made it very useful as a chasing tool.<\/p>\n<p>I pierced the stars and sawed out six of them total. I ascribed symbolism to all of them, which I feel is an important facet handmade jewelry in general and of wedding rings in particular.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/starssmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-208\" title=\"starssmall\" src=\"http:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/starssmall-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once completed it looked to me like outer space. The way the end of the ring wraps around the outside reminds me of the rings of a planet as it might be seen from the surface and being in love is kind of like being on your own planet, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my new wedding band. My very beautiful oval and white gold set no longer fits me after a huge weight loss last year. I&#8217;ve worn a variety of rings in the past year while I worked on this design. I wanted to incorporate a few specific elements, but the celestial theme did not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}