Rocket Ring, by potus31 on Etsy

It’s high time for some spacey jewelry here at Silver Rockets — spring is in the air, so why not spruce yourself up with some rocket goodies? (Note: most likely you’ve been experiencing spring for a while now, dear reader. Hey baby, it’s cold outside, here in the frozen wastes of far-northern California.)

Retro 3D Rocket Ship Flying Around the Moon Necklace, by SilverHorizonDesigns on Etsy

Rocket ships don’t seem to be the most popular subject for jewelry — I keep seeing the same designs over and over, some of which were featured here previously. I’m glad they’re still available! Anyway, here’s a few fun things I found. This last one entertains me, and would make a great gift, especially if you know a space-nerdy couple!

Just Married Rocket Ship Necklace, by Jody Lyle Jewelry on Etsy

Moon Dust watch shown in Steel Mood Grey, by Romain Jerome

A watch with embedded moon dust? YES, PLEASE.

Carbon fibre & steel bezel with parts of Apollo 11. Steel & black PVD-coated steel case. Grey dial in mineral structure containing Moon Dust. Black rubber or Hornback crocodile strap partly woven with carbon fibre & fibres from an ISS spacesuit.
LIMITED EDITION 1,969 pieces

While it’s unclear what “parts of Apollo 11″ have been used, it’s a Swiss-made space watch. How bad could it be?

Source: Freshness Magazine

Chanel Etoile Filante bracelet in white gold, with diamonds.

I stumbled upon the new Chanel Comète line of jewelry, and found myself with an interesting conundrum: should I post starry jewelry on the starry blog (you are here), or the jewelry blog? My answer? BOTH.

To see more celestial jewelry, and read more about the collection, head over to Many Faceted!

Moonlight of Saturn Necklace by Lisa Zamcho (BrightFireBeads @ Etsy)

Steampunk? Saturn? Why yes, I’ll have some of that!

A brass Saturn is surrounded by gears and red Swarovski Crystal Moonlets. An antique pocket watch movement and a hand tooled filigree serve as the base in this piece.

The spaceship ring, by EyvindsAlchemy @ Etsy

Here’s a couple of space-inspired rings for your Thursday! I guess I’m in a jewelry mood. Normally this would be my every-other-weekly crafting session, this morning, but we’re having a snow day.

Above, you can’t go wrong with lapis lazuli (the sky, the stars….) Below, a terrific wire-work spiral galaxy for the finger. (I have no desire to learn wire—more of a stringing person, myself—but it’s beautiful stuff!)

Spiral Galaxy Cocktail Sterling Silver Ring, by 3RexesJewelry @ Etsy

Retro-Rockets.com has some terrific rocket jewelry designs, lovingly crafted in Los Cruces, NM. The sentiments they express in their mission statement are, well, very near and dear to my heart. Check them out!

Our exclusive designs feature a nostalgic take on the Fantastic Future that was in the imaginations of artists, authors, scientists and futurists. Space was the goal, the ultimate destination for the aspirations of humanity – not as an escape, but as a blank slate for the bright tomorrow imagined as a time that was just around the corner.

Lunar Eclipse rings, by JesseDanger

Last week’s Mooncrafts post was such a rollicking good time (okay, for me I mean), that I decided to post another segment! First up, a set of rings, one featuring Mokume-gane (“wood-grain metal”) in a raindrop pattern, which does well as a lunar-crater pattern too (in my opinion.)

Next up, a lunar surface pendant:

Lunar Pendant, by littlerock

The listing itself is short on description, but it features “craters” in sterling silver, a small faceted sapphire, and a bumpy lunar “surface” of botryoidal azurite (the blue sibling of malachite.) I am giving you all these links because minerals and gemstones are important to me, and I would be remiss if I didn’t satisfy your curiosity with explanations of the terms, should you be curious. Besides, it’s not every day you run into a weird word like botryoidal!

Finally, one might call this last item a stretch, in terms of its “lunar-ness”, but it reminds me of funky sci-fi movie sets, and has the word “lunar” in the title, so I am letting it pass. That it is raku probably helped its chances, in my particular case:

Raku Lunar Vessel, by DavisVachon

In truth, I definitely think this should be an artifact from an ancient lunar civilization, or perhaps a future civilization that was somehow punted through a time distortion to land in the year 2010. Would have this in my office in a heartbeat.

High Texture Hand Embroidery of the Moon, by Rachel Hobson

More amazing space crafts are up for voting in the NASA Etsy craft contest — I’m featuring several over the next two days because there’s some amazing stuff to see! The first two photos are of an amazing high-texture embroidery of the Moon. It’s really worth looking at the rest of the images on the listing, to get a feel for the range of texture and stitches involved!

High Texture Hand Embroidery of the Moon, by Rachel Hobson

Next, a fantastic moon crater ring! I’ve tagged this “for men” because it’s a size 11.5. If you’re a woman and you can wear it, by all means! (And wow, you have bigger fingers than me… and I have big hands!)

Moon Ring Sterling Silver, by MarcusBerknerJewelry

Last but not least, two of my favorite things combine in a beautiful art piece, a raku-fired ceramic lunar crater:

Moon Crater, by EsterLipscomb

Vote today for these and many other amazing things, as part of the NASA Etsy contest!

Moon Bridal Hat by Bettmann, 1956. Image courtesy of Foxtongue @ Flickr.

Oh 1956, shame on you. With fashion options like that, I’d marry on Earth and honeymoon… on the Moon. If I were in 1956, I mean. Image courtesy of Foxtongue.

Found something a bit unusual today — it’s a seal ring, it’s a coin ring, IT’S BOTH.

I made this silver ring by the impression (in wax) of a Mongolian coin. The original coin was minted in 1981 (the 20 years anniversary of first human flight in space.) The coin depicts the Mongolian spaceman, Jugderdemidiyn Gurragchaa and his Soviet fellow, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dzhanibekov.

Not your average, every-day ring find! And for interest’s sake, here’s the coin itself: