My silversmithing class started last night. I love my teacher!! Her name is Honey and she's awesome. I will continue to take classes from her for as long as I live in NYC. She's helpful, very knowledgable, warm, and encourages outside-of-the-box thinking. I'm working on a ring similar to this one in it's simplicity. I'm using white topaz and am embarrassed to admit I didn't know white topaz even existed. It's beautiful and sparkly and wonderful...and it isn't something that involves human exploitation :)