First I would like to thank the Academy...ha ha, kidding!

Details:

- 8mm OEC Moissanite (unenhanced)
- Setting & bands by Etsy vendor Silverwoods
- 18k yellow gold (brushed satin finish)
- Burnished champagne & cognac natural diamonds - ranging from quite light to dark but all of them are very sparkly!
- My finger size is about 5.5ish, but the bands are 6.5.

First thoughts are: love 'em!

Though the OEC is the same size as my sapphire, it seems so big right now (not helped my not having worn a stone for over a month!). I am already used to it after an hour though, ha ha. Definitely would not go bigger though, the bezel adds only a little but it is more than enough. This already pushes my preference for "understated" to the limit!

Indoors under lighting I get lots of bright rainbows, outdoors in sunlight more pastels (as seen in pics).

The faceting is great. I can see it so much easier in this size than in my pendant/earrings. I can see the little flowery look. I just love the crown height of this stone. It makes it so much more interesting for me (especially in a bezel when I cannot see the side).

I have not decided how to wear them yet. I like the three bands but it does add a lot of width. Some days I may just opt for one band either side, though I DO love lots of width.

Incredibly impressed with the craftmanship. Guido (of Silverwoods) is truly an artist. The bands themselves are beautiful, and interesting as they vary due to the differeing sizes of the diamonds and how he places them (in 1s, 2s, and 3s). I really wanted an organic and "artistic" look and I think that was well accomplished. I do feel like I am wearing something very special and unique (at least around where I live!).

Now on to the pics, I have many, but I tried to "narrow" it down! I was wearing a black shirt with a green scarf while taking most of these.



Bit of fun reflection of my green scarf in the sun:



Sort of full handshot in daylight (partial sun):



Angled profile:




Some red/pink fire:



Catch the Kozibe!



Inside in natural light:




Inside under potlighting:



Under other small potlights during day:







Okay, my husband's computer drives me nuts, so this is enough pictures, ha ha! If anyone has any questions or wants some more specific pictures, ask, as I may have some already taken.

Oh, one more as her siblings wanted their picture taken too:

I'm dying. DYING. They are AMAZING. Wow. I can't stop staring at them. I'm totally in love with your collection. Stunning. Full stop.

WOW! That is an absolutely stunning set! I love it! It really suits your hand too.

I loved your sapphire set too. I think we have similar tastes!

Oh my word!!! That last pic is divine. Just look at all that yg goodness!!!

You must be so thrilled with your new rings! That oec looks amazing too....hard to believe it is not enhanced

Congrats!!

OMG! They look A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!! I love the subtle matte finish of the rings and the fire of that the stones give off. Great contrast to make those stones POP!

+1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Your rings are more breathtaking than I could have ever imagined! You must be doing cartwheels

RaiKai!!! They are AWESOME!!!
I looooove the personality, uniqueness, and organic clean look.

They look gorgeous!! Very cool!!!

amazing set!!!!!!!!!

Whoooooooa

That set is out of this world amazing!!!!! So unique and beautiful! wow...

I love your set!!! the champagne & cognac diamonds go perfectly with the setting and especially the OEC-excellent taste!

RaiKai - I just about choked on my own saliva!!!
Fifth picture down - WOWZA!!! Absolutely beautiful, totally worth the wait (for me anyway LOL)

Those rings are just gorgeous, congrats

P.S. Awesome job on the stats Oh and LOL @ Thanking the academy....

That is a stunning set ~ absolutely gorgeous!!! Totally my style.......

Thanks all!

I am so, so thrilled with them. They are even better than I expected, and feel right at home on my finger right now

Ok, so these rings are perfection. They are amazeballs.

So happy for you RaiKai!

Amazeballs....I love that! Ha ha ha. I am going to co-opt that word.

Stunning!! What great style. You know I love that set as I shotgunned it.

<--------- speechless

Sorry I found my voice.

Love the whole set! Your OEC collection is amazing

Ha ha, I have your name down!

The set is awesome ... just beautiful. What I like best about your photos is I can see you!!! Well, almost.

WOW!! They turned out so well! Absoutely amazing!! I love the width of them all together, but in do way would say the set is understated, lol, especially in Lethbridge.

Ha ha, yes, a rather distorted and reflective me!

TOTAL KNOCKOUT!!!!!

Yeah, I would agree with you there. I might have pulled off the understated look if I had stayed closer to 1ct but....shucks, I didn't...

I wouldn't have either!! But now I am going to be on the lokout for you at the mall

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I am so in LOVE with this good looking family photo!!

moar hand shots plz! MOAR!!!

MissKK, your wish is my command. Apologies in advance - I am terrible with stable handshots!

I love them! Gorgeous!!!

Wow! That is an amazing ring (set of rings, actually!)

When I first showed my husband what I was getting, he was like "why do you need three bands?" I just looked at him like he had three heads and said "because they are just tiny thin little bands all on their own!". Ha ha,

The open culet causes the coolest patterning under my kitchen lights. At certain angles, it almost looks like there is a small honeycomb hiding in my stone. It is fascinating! I see the kozibe effect in natural light too, but it is so different under indoor lights.

Between the flower patterns, kozibe and honeycombs, I am going to get eye strain from looking at my stone so much!

That's what video cameras were made for

psh, whatever your hand shots are AMAZING!

LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow! I love this set.... So unique & beautiful!

I have come back to look again!! This is not my personal style really, but I love how it looks.

Absolutely lovely. This is "original" done right. Kudos for some fabulous rings! (I bet everyone you meet oozes jealousy!)

Yeah, I definitely know they are not everyone's style! Which is cool with me, but I am happy to hear you like how they look anyway!

My husband just came home from Calgary and has said he likes them much better than my old rings (he never quite liked them). He thinks they are sort of Lord of the Ring-ey, elven, spidery, zombieish (Um, I like zombies but still had to ask what he meant...apparently they remind him of bony zombies). He always has a peculiar way of describing things...but these are all positive descriptors, ha ha, though maybe not for jewelery forums where they may not seem as flattering. He thinks they are very "RaiKai".

I've come out of lurkdom to say I LOVE you set! Such organic buttery goodness!! Wear it in the best of health.

WOW!

AWESOMENESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AWESOMENESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AWESOMENESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AWESOMENESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AWESOMENESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AWESOMENESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh. My. Goodness. What everyone else said x 10,000,000,000! This is hands down my favorite set ever. What does it look like from underneath? Could you possibly post any photos showing the solitaire from that angle?

::running off to drool some more:: :-D

Absolutely amazing! This set took my breath away. You captured organic, elegance and a very unique one of a kind look.

Congrats!

So I got lucky in that this morning when I was leaving the gym, it as overcast and spitting rain and got to see my stone in that sort of weather. Thought you guys might like some pictures of it outside, and in the car.

This stone is just so fascinating in different lighting conditions.

I put my rings back on after my workout this morning and noticed how sparkly and amazing they looked in the change room, so tried to get some pics of that too!

I found that in the outside overcast, it just looked very "steely". Note that those yellow reflections are either from the bezel, or the sticker on my camera. Some of the blue, etc is from the car next to me. I noticed a few times the writing on my camera would show up reflected back at me too, but I could not capture it!

I noticed that in the car, it just reflected every colour around me. From my black jacket, to black interior, to the yellow bezel, and even my skin! It was incredibly hard to photograph though!


In the car:





Outside the car:

Video in my gym's change room - so sparkly! Sorry it is so fuzzy and out of focus, but it turned out better than the pictures:

http://s956.photobucket.com/albums/ae48/...nt=P4110055.mp4

I don't know how I missed this thread earlier. Your rings are wonderful. I love the bands, the matte finish and the different colored stones.

Congratulations on getting such a beautiful wedding set. Does everyone around you ohh and ahh?

a knockout from EVERY angle.

Just for fun - yum!:

I will try and take some later, my camera is out of juice! It is open on the bottom though.

The only one who has really seen them so far has been my husband! I have to rely on the flattery of internet strangers

and boy are we strange....

Ha ha, but strange in a GOOD way....right? Right? Hello?

Ah the video, words fail! Please add more, the color of green I'm turning is lovely. (;

I can't believe you could walk past the gym desk without someone commenting on those beauties, but maybe my perspective has been skewed, hehe.

Any idea how high that bezel raises off of your finger?

Ah, well, the desk at 4:00am is occupied by a guy who is cool, but I don't think much interested in jewelery, especially at 4:00am, and when I leave afterward the girl there can't really see it from her angle anyway!

I just measured...it is about 6mm off my finger, and the stone's table ends up at about another 1mm from that.

I'll try and take some more videos over next while in different conditions.

I love love love the kisses photos!!

<---- Me too!

Wow! This is not what I had in mind at all!

I was expecting a modern type ring, since you talked about the bezel. But this is incredibly organic feeling! LOVE IT!

Also, the stone is great! It reacts very well to the overcast conditions I think! Nothing at all like my old RB.

Thanks Kat! Yeah, I definitely was going for an organic feel. It is much more me than the more classic/traditional looks or the antique looks (which I totally admire and love looking at, but don't fit my personality and "me" quite as much!).

They are still modern in the sense of their sculpting and clean lines, but I did want something that at the same time looked somewhat rustic and nature-inspired-looking. I also like that they always look a bit different when I wear them. The bands fit against each other in all sorts of different ways. In some ways when I place them they fit very snugly, so there is almost no gap as they "tuck" into each other, but in other ways I get more spacing. And then of course, since the melee varies across them, I get all sorts of results. I like how free-flowing they can be that way - always a bit different!

Yeah, I have to admit I was quite loving it in the overcast. People were looking at me a little oddly standing by my car in a public parking lot (by my gym) at 7:30am and taking pictures of my hand...ha. I found the faceting rather intriguing under that sky though. There definitely was some body colour in there that I noticed as I was driving, but it was not a body colour that to me screamed "green apple" or "snotcast" as I have heard some describe. Whatever it was, it was very pleasing to me personally and another property I just love about this stone. I actually like it in that lighting more than the sparkly gym lighting that gives it that really rainbow-ey sparkle, but I can be a bit weird like that!

So glad you love the set

I just figured out what they remind me of! They look a bit like bamboo! So, very nice clean lines, but also very natural and intriguing.

OMG, I only made it to the first picture and I'm calling SHOTGUN!! I LOVE YOUR ENTIRE SET!! Okay, I'm going back to check out the rest of the thread now...

Yes, I can definitely see that!

I have to post again! The gorgeousness of this set can cause heart failure!! no kidding the look is so unique and stones so stunning, I swear my heart stopped the second go round of looking at this masterpiece!! Congrats again-you have great jewelery vision-simply speechless.

Ha ha, okay, I will put you second after MissGotRocks who had called shotgun before she ever even saw them. Though I certainly plan on these being with me forever and ever (these are the rings I should have had in the first place!), so it may be a long wait!

Thanks SB. I certainly do not want to stop anyone elses hearts, but I know mine certainly skipped a couple beats when I got them!

I have been waiting for this! Congrats! I love it and think its gorgeous! I have the rosegold with white sapphire saved on my computer and LOVE your incarnation of that!

I am IN LOVE with this set!! Everything about it is perfect!! I immediately went to Etsy and typed in the sellers name when I saw it!! I had already had rings marked as favorites from him so we have the same taste!! Your rings are just gorgeous!! Congrats on such a perfect forever set!!

Thanks for your comments missnina & wishing!

It is great to hear that you were both already familiar with the artist! If you ever get anything from him, I will be very excited to see it.

Missnina - the rose gold & white sapphire rings are so gorgeous too. The brushed rose gold looks so different!

I had to come back, too. I usually hate matte finishes on rings, but your set has changed my mind. Love. It.

Wowza, love the set.

More video! I wanted to show it in action in "less optimal" conditions - meaning inside my black-interior car when the weather was very overcast and very rainy.

http://s956.photobucket.com/albums/ae48/...=P4120015-1.mp4


Also, someone asked what the ring looked like underneath, as you can see it is a closed bezel, just with opening on bottom for cleaning:

Thanks Jay, I am still looking forward to seeing your ring!

Ha ha, thanks Bling. It is kind of a neat finish. I was not sure how I would feel about it either once upon a time, but it was coatimundi's ring on PS that had me willing to take the plunge :



Hers was originally polished (like her three stone), and I believe she essentially scrubbed it with a brillo/scratch pad!

I also figured I could always polish it if I did not like it! I love it though. Really brings out the colour of the gold since there is less light reflection and has an interesting texture. It also seems to enhance the "curves" in the rings. It will be neat to see how it wears, as I understand it can become shinier with wear from it getting polished with use through rubbing, scratching, etc.

Haven't been around for a few days, happy surprise to see a video. So love this set RaiKai! Lucky you!!!!

Ohhh this picture! What a collection. I´m totally in love with all of it. Nice, nice, nice!

I LOVE the culet on your stone btw! Had to come back to compare with mine! I think the general concensus is that lots of ppl like the itty bitty ones, but I am just such a sucker for the obvious one! (Not that I don't love mine, just appreciate yours A LOT too!)

lol Kat,..I used to only like the small culet,..until one of mine was the big culet...now that's my favorite!!

I used to think Dana was crazy and asked her "why" she liked the big culet. She said something funny like...
I could just stare into it and get lost into the hole...hahahaha
Crazy lady,..now I am one too!!

Thanks girls, you are too funny Kanga!

Yeah culets are certainly a personal taste thing. The first time I saw one I was like "uh, why is there a hole in that stone?" But I love them! I am a big fan of culet reflections...like a little secret of the stone! Mine is only fairly obvious when the stone is in conditions that just do not cause overwhelming sparkle but I can pretty much always find those cool reflections like kozibe and other patterning.

Not sure what it is about it, but I feel like large culets add this extra dimension to the stone! & I sooo agree with the comment that I could get lost in them! But for me, even with my itty bitty culet, I am just soooooo honored and happy to own an OEC! It was and is all I had dreamed of and so much more

that set is amaze balls.

Now that is what I am talking about! The OEC is amazing especially in the yellow gold. It doesn't get much better then this folks.

I just linked this thread for another poster and I don't think I've posted on it! I so love this color of 18k yellow...and especially those bands and scattered diamonds.

holy cow... a masterpiece!!

I had to come back and admire again, this set is just so pretty. I love the super well made yet organic look.

What gorgeous jewelry! The Settings are just exquisite!