I’ve been thinking a lot about Alchemy. Not the old school ‘metal into gold’ stuff, but the act of alchemy, the verb. What it means to alchemize your life. How we as people can turn something seemingly commonplace….into something rare and valuable. And why that's so important.
For better or worse, isn’t that why we’re here?
To make. To synthesize. To blend.
To heal and hope and hold as best we can.
To move forward. Same feet. Different step.
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I have milled my own ring stock and sheet, a practice in alchemy of sorts, for the first time and for good reason this year. Silver has doubled in price in the last few months of 2025 and I find it abhorrent to buy what I technically already own. SO. I have been deep in the practice of milling my own materials (or...read: scrappy mistakes!) by melting them all down to liquid, back to solid in a different form, and rolled into infinity. Alchemic as hell, I'd say!
These rings are the direct product of some milling square stock from an ingot, which is basically just a big chunk of silver melted into a mold, and then gets rolled smaller and smaller and smaller into a thinner square wire. I'm slow. It's slow. But really. Not all Alchemy is fast. So we go deep, and back. Into the foundation of slow craft we swim.
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Labradorite round measures 8mm diameter and is a size 5 on a band much like my 'fatty stack' style. Great for stacking up or wearing as one. OOAK.