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!

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.

Needle felted Hubble Servicing Mission 4 EVA 4, by FlyingJenny

Part two of my NASA Etsy contest feature, this first image is a needle-felted rendition of Hubble Servicing Mission 4, EVA 4 by the highly talented FlyingJenny. Beautiful work!

This is a needle felted rendition of a scene from the Hubble Servicing Mission 4, which took place in May of 2009. Specifically this wool sculpture shows the fourth Extra Vehicular Activity, or spacewalk, of that mission. This spacewalk was conducted by astronauts Mike Massimino (the first astronaut to send a tweet from space, also known as @Astro_Mike) and Mike Good, whose nickname is Bueno. One of the memorable moments of this EVA was when one of Hubble’s handrails was in the way and they were unable to remove it. After much deliberation and testing on the ground, Mike Massimino was given the okay to forcibly break off the handrail- as people all over the world watched with great interest.

Next up, an unusual (but AWESOME) decoupage necklace:

The stars my destination..., by ergane

Wear your deep pride for the first walk on the moon (and Apollo space missions!) with this, “The stars my destination” decoupaged necklace…Postage and vintage dictionary paper were applied by me, and my fingers, onto vintage watch crystals, and a few watch parts (disguised as satellites) are also part of this delicious fest of aqua and pearls and moon beams…reach for the sky, cowboy!

Finally, slightly more subtle, a lovely starry side-table:

Northstar Table, by colleenwhiteley

What I love about this table is that, once you locate the North Star and press it, a secret drawer is revealed:

The circular brass inlay represents the stars in the night sky on the evening of the first moon landing, and identifying the “North Star” is the key to opening the hidden drawer.

Northstar Table, by colleenwhiteley

Don’t forget to vote today in the NASA Etsy contest!

I’ve had gemstones on the brain today (more so than normal, I mean), after reading about the $45.6M sale of this Fancy Intense Pink diamond at Sotheby’s on Tuesday (if you like sparkly things, watch the video. SPARK. LY. THINGS.) Annnnnyway, I keep going back to Etsy to visit this stunning planetary ring, so I might as well post it so I can continue to admire it long after it sells. Really, it merits going to the listing and looking through all the photos, as every angle has lovely and interesting detail.

This ring is the penultimate in the evolution of a ten year design process. In order to achieve a “Celestial” look, I must make this ring the hard way. Each dot or “star” is actually a small hole bored through the Ti ring itself and then riveted with Fine Silver. Silver, being the whitest of all metals, is a great stand-in for stars as well as the perfect contrast to the gunmetal gray of Titanium. The Yellow Diamond Sun and the White Diamond Moon are each set into metals of opposing colors to reflect the yin/yang nature of the universe as I see it. The planets are each represented by historically corresponding metals; 14K Pink Gold stands for the planets of Mercury and Mars; Fine Silver stands for Venus and Jupiter, and 18K yellow Gold represents Saturn. This ring is the best example, to date, of what I have been striving for, a subdued astronomical look of many small and even smaller dots punctuated by different metals as planets in a sea of stars.

Kudos to Patrick Burt for his stunning creation!

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: