Shiny!

[heleninwales]

Two things were cancelled today, or rather postponed. But I'm happy with that. Tomorrow is going to be very hot and though I want to see our daughter and granddaughter, leaving it another week should mean cooler weather for a long drive down to Mid-Wales. This also means that tomorrow I can attack the back garden, which is still not really under control.

Meanwhile today has been very successful. Although the gas engineer had finished by lunchtime yesterday, I didn't feel like driving to Barmouth to collect my rings. However, when I saw that it was raining and very dismal this morning, I decided to go and get them, rather than wait until next Thursday.



As I suspected, there was quite a lot of traffic leaving Barmouth shortly before 10 a.m. which is the usual checking out time for hotels, holiday apartment and chalets, but there was very little going in. Anyone planning a day at the seaside who had looked at the weather forecast would mostly likely have decided to leave it a little later until the rain stopped.

This was what it was like just after parking the car in the main car park.



I walked down the high street and bought a pad of A4 lined paper. I may need to resort to hand writing first draft of the current novel because it is totally new first draft. I then collected my wedding ring and engagement ring from the jewellers. On the way back to the car park, I also bought some table "mats" made out of slate. For some reason G has a strong aversion to place mats, but he finally decided that slate ones would be OK.

This was what it was like as I returned to the car park. Still raining!




And here are the rings, as good as new! Combining my mother's wedding ring with my own has worked really well. I must thank curiouswombat for the idea. I would never have thought of it myself. I've ended up with a slightly chunkier and much larger wedding ring that fits nicely and I don't have an old wedding ring hanging around in the jewellery box.

Comments

[flemmings]

That ring is really lovely. And solid too.

[heleninwales]

My wedding ring was rather scratched and the bevelled edge had worn away after 50 years. The remade ring is nicely chunky without being too thick. I am very pleased with it.

[sartorias]

Pretty rings!

One of the things we inherited were a cluster of wedding rings from spouse's grandmother's side of the family, from the English side. All these rings are very thin, very plain bands.

[anna_wing]

You could try having them all melted down and re-made into one.

[heleninwales]

If they're all the same type of gold, you could certainly get them melted down and made into one or two nice rings. My mother's ring was much narrower than mine and my ring was rather worn and probably a bit thinner than it was originally. That meant that the two melted together and remade into one ring worked well.

I don't know whether it's always been the case, but I've noticed recently that quite a few jewellers are offering to make new pieces out of old jewellery. I have a bunch of jewelled rings that were my mother-in-law's. They're not the type of ring I would wear, even if I had them enlarged to fit. They also have whatever is the opposite of sentimental value for me. I still haven't decided what to do with them, but remaking into a pendant and/or earrings for my daughter is one possibility.

[sartorias]

It's a good idea, but these rings are super thin, and I think most of them are silver plate and one is so dark I think it might be iron. Nothing is gold.

[heleninwales]

That makes it hard to know what to do with them. If they have no intrinsic value but you feel a sentimental attachment, it might be a case of taking photos and then letting them go.

[sartorias]

We saved them for daughter, but she says we really ought to pass them to my spouse's brother, who does a ton of genealogy stuff for fun.

[anna_wing]

Yes, it's very common, because of the cost of the materials, for jewellery to be reworked to suit current fashions.

[sartorias]

I this case, the materials aren't worth much.

[threeringedmoon]

The rings look beautiful together.

[heleninwales]

Thank you. Obviously I chose the engagement ring first and then picked the wedding ring to go with it. The remade ring is perhaps a tiny bit wider than it was originally, and a little thicker, but not significantly different.