It is 2:30 a.m. and I am drinking a glass of wine, eating raw cookie dough with a spoon, and sifting through my umpteen collected photos of ring settings. I can't decide if this is a sad portrait or if I'm the QUEEN.

In a few weeks it will be one year since I replaced my wedding ring Moissanite with an Amora-enhanced stone. My old stone remains loose, waiting for me to choose a setting so that I can have a second wedding ring (a BTD requirement, of course).

It's a 7.5mm round and is a really white one, so it's certainly worthy of a reset. But because it's unenhanced, it does show the snotcast when skies are gray, so the reset shouldn't be too elaborate or expensive (not to mention I can't afford elaborate and expensive). Beyond the 7.5mm round limitation, my only other limitation is that it must be yellow gold as my skin reacts to other metals.

I want a departure from my primary set, which is my avatar and which will remain my primary set. The reset is purely for fun and I'm thinking I'd like it to be more reflective of my personal style. What's my personal style? I can never figure that out. It's part cathedral, part barn, part antique, part Jeep. Go figure.

My almost-100 year old house reflects my style very well. We turned our original barn-style sliding garage doors into a headboard, mounted the rusty track on the wall and left the broken glass... then offset it with a chandelier and gold-leaf photo frames. I have *that* giant hammered copper farm sink with an apron and 10 years of patina... and it's offset by a fairly elegant stained glass window. My husband built a cabinet that I in turn destroyed with a chisel and trailer chain and paint/stain... and on the front I decoupaged a huge poster of a classy 1800s painting by Lord Frederic Leighton that we'd seen in Paris. We have a beautiful antique carved church pew as part of our dining room seating... along with wrought iron patio chairs. We work hard to maintain the original storybook ivy on the front of our English Tudor... but we store our ugly pop-up camper in the back driveway.

Do you have me all figured out now? Good, then tell me what you think of these ring ideas. I had to compress this a lot to get it to a post-able file size, so I apologize if the images aren't very crisp.

Organic leaf or antique flare gets my vote!

I love the last ring in the leaf pictures!

Cathy Waterman or first pic in antique flare

something different.

LOL @ " I can't decide if this is a sad portrait or if I'm the QUEEN"

I vote Cathy Waterman or any of the bezel settings.

p.s. your house sounds awesome

Well...your choice of cookie dough with wine (red or white?) goes along with your eclectic lifestyle which means you need something eclectic or you won't be satisfied. But, I do like the bottom right organic leaf design. Rose gold would be awesome. Maybe do a brown diamond or something. Might help trick the eye and mask your stone's attitude.Or maybe look at some Le Vian designs for inspiration.

Well.... if you´re drinking (red?) wine, maybe you should go with red side stones... also goes with the awesome barn motif.
I would either do a bezel or the angled marquise sides....

and now I´m getting my coffee. So if I made no sense, please excusez-moi, Queen Hadley.

I love the Waterman rings and the bottom left ring under "organic leaf. Maybe you could use the basic shape of the Waterman design but trade the pave leaves for carved leaves like those in the organic leaf design?

I like your style Hadley, and you are my lost 2nd cousin twice removed, or something like that.

I love all of the suggestions. I tend to thing since this will be a rhr?? Go for sidestone! great idea. I love cabochons.

Sorry, I'm not much help. *bows*

P.S. Can you please tell me where the pic above "dainty/girly end" under organic leaf came from? Thanks!

Yes, the idea of warm colored side stones makes me happy. Those who suggested this are on to me. The LeVian idea is also my style. I love their earth toned browns and such. Their pave is too much detail/setting costs for this project, but they serve as a good inspiration.

flashfrenzy: this will be a second wedding ring, not a right hand ring. I can't bring myself to wear two 7.5mm stones at the same time because I'd be far too bling self-conscious. I just gave half of these boards chest pains with that statement, didn't I???

Those who asked about the last setting in the "organic leaf" collection, here you go:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/98123974/14k...h_type=handmade

Does anyone know about the physics of antiquing? The black stuff is a surface enamel or something, isn't it? I've never heard of actual black gold (well, except for oil in the ground).

Keep the ideas coming! Thanks!

Yeah, it's just black rhodium usually.