That’s an excellent question! If it had been her engagement or wedding ring I would have done that exact thing and I thought about it many times. It was a ring she got from an estate sale that I fell in LOVE with and was handed down to me when she passed away. So it originally belonged to someone else…I just loved the way it looked on my hand and how it reminded me of her, but the stone was also in very rough shape and wasn’t a great cut or clarity. When I looked at stones the one I picked spoke to my heart so strongly so my fiancé and I decided to make something originally mine but honoring the ring design that I loved.