'til death jewelry in action!

The amazing wordsmith Ian Christie and his wife Dianna sealed the deal with 'til death wedding rings. Ian is the author of the history of heavy metal "SOTB" and biographies on Van Halen and Iron Maiden. He is also the host of Sirius radios Bloody Roots. Check out his website!

Congratulations Ian and Dianna!

Recession Prices! (actually the price of gold has fallen!)

There is good news in this economic downturn...

The price of gold has fallen.  Not an amazing amount, but enough to make a difference.

The last time we adjusted our prices, unfortunately we had to raise them because the cost of materials (Gold, Silver...) had gone through the roof!  The highest they had been in a very very long time.  

We have gone through our catalog and lowered all the prices to reflect the recent drop in gold prices.  It seems unfair and a bit scandalous to not lower our prices.  And could there be a better time to do it?!?  

Model Shoot!

We recently had a shoot with a model wearing the jewelry.

We were in need of pictures that show the size and scale of the jewelry (they will be on our website soon...)

It was a long day of shooting, but we ended up with some great shots.

I have put up a photo gallery on our website, www.donovansmithdesign.com/candid

A huge thanks for all the hard work from everyone!

Steve: photography

Catherine: model

and Patrick Eichler: makeup artist extraordinaire!

cheers, 

--d

Donovan Smith Design Studio in Lucky Breaks, October!

DSDS is so excited to be in LuckyBreaksOnline.com and Lucky Magazine this month!

We are offering a discount on the entire site in conjunction with Lucky Magazine through the beginning of November. Click the image to go to the Lucky Breaks page to get the discount code. You will have to create a login if you don't already have one...

"Doored" while riding to work...

Sorry to any emails or deliveries that were a few days late...

I ended up in the ER after colliding with a door that was flung open in front of me as I was riding my bike to the studio.  Pretty sore and I do not have full use of my right hand yet!

I was wearing my helmet, thankfully.

I will be back to the bench making more jewelry soon..

More Custom Work

Here is a pic of a custom job I am just finishing up.  

The amazing photographer that I have take my pictures, Steven Crawford, is unfortunately on vacation in South America at the moment...  so I am stuck taking a snapshot.

Here are some more pics!

They are matching damascus steel bracelets with inlaid 14k white gold plaques reading "bound by love 2008".  On the ends of the bracelets are set one 5mm ruby and one 5mm blue sapphire.  

The bracelets are housed in a wooden box with another plaque to match the bracelets.  

In what now feels like a past life, I used to make a lot of steel jewelry for another company.  So it was a strange coincidence that someone would approach me to do this custom order.  There were actually many strange coincidences with this project...  esoteric synchronicity abounds!

 

It was fun to work with steel again, and also a little painful...  I should post the pictures of my swollen, hammer struck finger or my lacerated fingers that were victims of aggressive filing.

It also reminded me how crazy an idea it is to have handmade steel jewelry in ones production line...  a word of warning to young designers.

--d

Check out this bling!

Check out this Ring!  This is a custom engagement ring I made for a client. 

The center stone is 1.41 Carat  g color  VVS2 Oval Diamond, with almost a 1/2 carat of diamond pave set in a custom platinum ring.

word.

-d