a polyp ring

I made a new ring by accident. Well, I made up the design as I went along... the murrina (the little glass cabochon) was the starting point, and at first I wanted to include it in a new pendant design, but halfway into the process I decided it would make a pretty ring. And while the result is not bad, it's not quite perfect...



You can't really see it on the first two pictures, but the ring isn't round -it's a little lopsided. On the back, the oval base and the ring don't fit perfectly (although they're soldered and strongly connected) and there are some unaesthetic gaps. So I guess this one will have to stay in my own collection... ;-) And next time I work on rings of a similar design, I know how to fix it.



When I'm working on a piece of jewelry, it's the first realization of a design that I'm most attached to.  They're the freaks, the poor little monsters and misfits, all cracked and gapped and limping, but they mean a lot to me! With the following realizations of the design, I correct the mistakes so they're technically and aesthetically better and ready to go out into the big world and I love them too, but they don't have the same appeal to me as their first-born siblings...

I wonder what would Mr Freud have to say about that, eh? :-p