PB Cohen Creations

One of my sisters has asked me to create a ring for her daughter, to replace one lost while scooping up leaves. Julia has blond hair, blue eyes, lives in Southern California, and became taller than I am a couple of years ago. Technically speaking, because of that last item (really, just that last one), I don't have to speak to her anymore. But I've decided I can still make her a ring!

I made the mistake of sending Susan to a few web sites to try to find something close to the ring that was lost, and possibly get some new ideas. Several hours later she came back with "Geometric shape but not too squared off. With texture. Probably not too big and not too sticky-up." Plus about 20 pictures, none of which were "perfect," and only some of which even came close to resembling each other.

Obviously, if she had found the "perfect" ring she would have purchased it from somebody else; I'd never make an exact copy. But we narrowed it down to three (click on the picture for a larger version). I apologize to the original artists for not being able to name them.

The current plan is to take these three images and let them stew in my head, and try to come up with something interesting, in my own style, that Julia (and of course my sister) might like. On the list are: texture, sorta modern, maybe even a little cute. I'm not likely to do a stone right now, since I haven't done any in awhile and don't feel like practicing. But I think I can figure something out.

Here's the first try, which is on the "cute" end. Unless Susan loves it, these won't be the final product, but sometimes you just have to get the first try out of your system.

Stay posted.