Ah young sweet love. When Jon and I were dating every occasion was celebrated from a 6 month anniversary to traditional Valentine’s day and sometimes a just because. The best part of celebrating was of course gift giving and during our relationship I have amassed quite a jewelry collection. Not an Elizabeth Taylor sort of collection, but I do have a couple special pieces that have meaning to me and I can’t part with. The problem now is that once I got my engagement ring and wedding band I pretty much stopped wearing every other ring Jon gave me. For years they have sat in my vanity collecting dusk.

Recently I was contacted by my friends at Gemvara and they let me know about a new service they are offering called Stone Reset by Gemvara. With stone reset you can mail them your old jewelry in an insured pre-paid mailer that they send you and once they receive it a jeweler will look over your goodies and tell you what jewelry from their collection you can use your stones with. If you like an option you can finish it designing it and pick out the type of gold you would like in the setting.

Since I loved my first experience with Gemvara I was excited to try out this new service they offer.

Off went this collection of old jewelry:

I sent them:

– 3 stone diamond promise ring, which I loved Jon for giving me, but I never loved the setting. The white gold setting pinched in on the sides of the diamonds and it always bothered me.

– 1 stone diamond ring, which again I loved and it had tons of meaning to me, but I never wore it once I had my engagement ring.

– Sapphire ring flanked with mini diamonds on the sides. I loved this ring and wore it for years and years, but again since my engagement ring was emerald cut diamonds and the same shape of the sapphire I just never wore it anymore.

– Smoky quartz necklace with diamonds. This necklace was never my style, but a friend gave it to me years ago so I always felt bad getting rid of it.

I packaged them off in an insured pre-paid mailer that I requested here and in a couple of days I had an email full of new jewelry options my old pieces could be used for.

It was fun to see all of the options and then play around with Gemvara’s program and change up the gold and accent stones and decide what my new pieces should look like.

The top image is the option they sent me. The bottom image is a new mock up I made with the help of their program.

I was able to get 3 new pieces with the jewelry I sent in. Once I picked what I wanted
I put in my order to the jeweler and now I need to wait just two short weeks for my new pieces!

Stay tuned for a follow up!

*This post is part of a collaboration with Gemvara. All opinions are my own. Gemvara is a company I truly love and use. Thanks for supporting the sponsors that make Effortless Style possible.