After two years of not wearing my beloved wedding band and engagement ring, I decided to break down and re-size them. As with most things, I approached this rationally. I know that the body prepares for labor by supplying progesterone and prolactin to relax things… so stuff is wider post-baby. Accordingly, my shoe size went from a regular\/narrow 7-7 1\/2 to an 8 wide. There are some shirts I’ll never be able to button again. So I felt it reasonable that my ring size would go up as well and felt that it was time.<\/p>\n
Good heavens. I went from a 4 3\/4 ring size to 6 3\/4 !!! Wow.<\/p>\n
After asking around, I brought my rings to the place everyone thinks of as “the best” jeweler in town, Adler’s<\/a>. Not a great experience. I should have known I wasn’t going to feel good about the experience when they didn’t fall over themselves gushing about the set: the engagement ring was Paul’s grandmother’s and is a one-of-a-kind, self-styled piece that is totally stunning. I told the staff all about the ring, how important it was to not only me by to our family, and how I brought it to them because I thought it would get the best care and attention. The results? Disappointing! I ended up bringing back my engagement ring to complain (the splice of gold they added was visible and rough in the shaft!) Also, the delicate edging made by Faith Capone<\/a> of Capone’s Jewelry in Blacksburg, VA when she sized them down for me was rubbed off (I wish I could have brought them to Faith, she was incredible). And finally, the rings are a bit too big (turns out I’m more of a 6 1\/2.)<\/p>\n All that aside, I picked them up today. I’m still not completely pleased with the results, but will wait before doing anything else to them. The bottom line is that they are beautiful and I can’t stop glancing at them flashing on my finger! It is cool to have rings again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After two years of not wearing my beloved wedding band and engagement ring, I decided to break down and re-size them. As with most things, I approached this rationally. I know that the body prepares for labor by supplying progesterone and prolactin to relax things… so stuff is wider post-baby. Accordingly, my shoe size went […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}