Yes. Got a little inheritance from my mother, finally. My mother died in 2010, there was a piece of property that had a number of issues, and finally somebody decided to buy it. That closed the estate.
What I purchased, a little longer story. I lost my husband in 2019. And I had our wedding rings. My husband had rheumatoid arthritis and he was no longer wearing his, and I lost a bunch of weight and I was no longer wearing mine. Many years back, our house was broken into and my original wedding band had been stolen. Seven years later, we found it at a pawnshop, on our wedding anniversary, and we bought it back. So I had three rings.
They were not plain bands, they were about 8 mm wide, and an intricate pattern of berries and leaves and sticks. I wanted to wear them, somehow, and spent a great deal of time trying to figure out what to do. I hit upon the idea of making a cuff bracelet. I did some research, and it sounded as if it was as easy as finding the proper place to cut them, flatten them, put them together and then make a cuff out of it.
I took the rings to my jeweler, and his son was working that day, and he wasn’t sure if this was possible and then he overheard his father in the back yell — yes it is we’ve done it before! It was $850, and I wear that bracelet frequently. I call it my power bracelet. It’s gorgeous.
