So thank YOU especially, because she's who I decided to work with
She was incredibly helpful and knowledgeable, and fielded my enormous pile of questions.
Questions I didn't realize I needed to know:
- Do I prefer translucent or more transparent?
- On the surface do I want a high polish or a frosted polish?
- Rounded cab surface or a flat surface?
Originally I had been looking into amethysts, but I also mentioned liking blue/green stones.
There's a supply of types of stone she can source and others she couldn't. She showed me some blueish chalcedony, topaz, and brazilian amethyst.
The chalcedony was a lovely light periwinkle blue/lavender. However, a touch more transparent and not as strong in color (but quite sizeable). I decided that I wasn't as into the clearer stuff like the topaz and amethyst.
However, she also had a really beautiful chrysoprase of milky blue green. It was smaller in size (14 mm as opposed to the 18 mm chalcedony) but I absolutely fell in love with the color.
I wasn't sure if the design would translate well to the stone though, so she did a little sketching to show how it might read.
(if hard to tell, it's two individual kneeling across from one another with some vines around them and a pillar between them)
Anddddd, I'm pretty sold. It's a bit smaller in size than what I was originally looking for, but I think the color impact of the stone will carry a lot of weight. Also, at that size I can likely turn it into an EW ring.