This one's kinda complicated.
So, while we aren't playing Ravenloft right this second, me & Roland talk a lot about what we want to do for Curse of Strahd. Most of our conversations come back to Lovinia and how I want to play her. I've been throwing around the idea of having her start with some kind of trinket or memento from her time as Tatyana to hopefully help her in tying her life back together, or just to make the mania of harbouring like, upwards of ten different versions of yourself within her very fractured mind a bit more justified. I already settled on her having her wedding ring from her marriage to Sergei, but somewhere I decided it wasn't enough, so I designed a music box as well. The brooch next to it is actually the winding key for it: a mechanism on the back fits into a slot in the center of the sunflower on the box's front, and the loop at the top is so it can be worn as a necklace.
Roland helped me a bit with the wedding ring. I based it loosely on the one she got from Strahd that I designed awhile back, and tried to make it, just, absolutely tasteless while still being sincere, hence the heart cut (Sergei seems like the type of guy to both me & Roland that would find the biggest, prettiest thing he could for his wife. The phrase we've been using is "golden retriever boyfriend"). I took that idea into the design of the music box too, and triedto use bright colors and happy themes, like sunflowers, to utterly juxtapose Sergei's general aesthetic with Strahds whole spooky-vampire-in-his-big-haunted-mansion vibe. We even decided what song it plays: It's a pleasant melody, one that has an almost heroic twinge to it despite the solemnity of wider Barovia.
It's the Wintergatan Marble Machine music. It just.. really fucks, alright? It's like, perfectly sad and hopeful at the same time, and what is this huge contraption if not a giant, really cool music box?
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STERLING SILVER AND SMOKY QUARTZ DISC RING - HELGE LARSEN AND DARANI LEWERS 1970S
Sterling silver & smoky quartz disc ring by Helge Larsen & Darani Lewers, 1970s
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Now listen, I know realistically they wouldn't have them, BUT, I still wanted to design a pair for them! (*¯︶¯*) I absolutely ADORE how these came out! The gems in Kouko's ring are Sapphires, while Inuyasha's are Rubies! Both are varieties of corundum, so they're two peas in a pod! I tried to make them suit eachother's color schemes, but I decided to give Kouko something a bit lighter than her primary dark gray and settled for a silver, which I definitely don't regret!
Kouko's ring is silver, with matching leaves, sapphire petals, and a layer of gold inside to resemble the inner parts of a hydrangea flower, with a little pearl in the middle! I think the coffin cut sapphires are my favorite detail on either, though!
Inuyasha's ring is gold, with a red inlay (I think it's called??) around it, and three rubies, all held in a white gold. I think the center ruby is my favorite part of that one. ⸜(*ˊᗜˋ*)⸝
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Thanks for sharing 
#repost _emilykb_13
Literally the most perfect ring, can't wait to marry my soulmate 🖤🖤🖤
'Lileve' coffin cut in garnet and black gold
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The Essential Guide to Owning the Perfect Pendant: A Professional's Advice
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