Are You Ready to Become a Magical Girl?

Your Contract is complete, you are now a Magical Girl! 

WOW! This has been such a journey! Have you ever felt like you were battling, searching, scared and lost and didn't know if you could go on!? Me too! 

I'm so excited this first stage of this epic adventure is coming to an end and I would do it again in a heartbeat! The connections I've made to this amazing Madoka Community are like none other! 

PMMM fans are the sweetest, most caring, understanding and heartfelt people I've ever had the pleasure of working with! 

A huge thank you to the Madoka community on Reditt for helping me on the path to my inner light and highest path. 

My most treasured element of these is learning about client's personal battles and struggles and how the show Puella Magi Madoka Magica helped them work through some big demons in their lives. 

I'm discovering it may be my true calling to be a healer in this lifetime, and healing through jewelry and treasured objects suits me just fine! ❤

Ok now for the nitty gritties of this journey! 

I want to touch on how I came to know of PMMM. About 5 years ago a client asked me for a custom Madoka Runes Ring. I'd never heard of the show, and I gladly made the ring for them, made a friend, and sent them their ring. 

Then about a year later another client asked me for the same ring, with their own name in runes and their own gem color. I made it again and formed another lovely relationship. Well I finally caught on after the 3rd fan asked for the same ring. I posted that one in my shop and the orders started pouring in! 

Fun fact I was inspired by the design on the gun for the frame on the cards. 😍

Once I discovered the show I was fascinated with the premise, which the fans were more than eager to share with me! It's about Magical Girls who become as such by signing a contract with a white rabbit names Kyubey. In exchange for becoming a Magical Girl Kyubey grants them one wish. Hence the phrase 'what is the wish that will make your soul gem shine?' They then battle witches in what seems like an alternate universe, but I think it's 'our world' but not everyone can see the witches. But if someone is sick, that might be a witch. The Magic Girls souls are housed in the all important Soul gems! 

The rings are 'travel' versions of the soul gem. The necklaces I make are smaller versions of the larger soul gems so fans can wear their souls round their neck!

I set out on the daunting journey of designing and making a 3D accurate soul gem with natural gemstones and a silver 'cage' to house them in. There would be many challenges to come!

First to decide what size to make it. What size eggs are available? What colors could we get? Did fans want briolette (faceted) or smooth? Natural gemstones, or resin? The Madoka community was invaluable answering these questions!

Once the details were solidified I got started with a new CAD designer because she was eager to take on such a challenging piece. At first she sent me lots of updates and I was excited. But then slowly months and months passed where she wouldn't respond, or would say soon...and I kept waiting...

Now it was 2021 at the time. SO MANY of us were struggling and still are from the last few years. So I was understanding. However as I'm learning, if someone doesn't do what their asked right away, it's not my job to wait, fix, or expect them to change. It's time to move on! SO finally after many months, I said thanks for your time, I'm hiring someone else! 

So the next CAD designer is an old friend of mine and I was thrilled to work with her again! She delivered designs quite quickly and we got our first model made! But then...my polisher sent me this image. Gulp, some of the eggs I ordered weren't the sizes advertised. We are actually still working out how to jump over this hurtle! It seems the mold has made the multiples shrink, which I was aware of, but the eggs are also too big. The new eggs I ordered solved one of these, but I'm still waiting to hear back from him if we need to cut a gem down, or make new 'cages' as he calls them. 

We ran into some issues where the metal couldn't get through the 'bottle neck' at the top. You can see where I've drawn a larger 'neck' under the star, to ensure the piece is strong and durable at it's 'weak spot' there under the star. 

Once we had the smaller design done, we moved onto the larger one! We were simply going to enlarge the first design, but realized the thickness wouldn't work out, so we started from scratch...again...lol 

The necklace is also available in my shop! 

I studied the show, looked at existing replicas and talked to fans to get the size of the replica just right! I also sourced gem eggs to make the replica as accurate as possible!

I also looked at what size gem eggs are available in the most colors to ensure I can make them in fan's preffered color!

CAD designs are looking good!

After some more months of working, finally! It magically came to fruition! 

Aside from the fact that according to the show I'm a real life version of Kyubey an evil rabbit that tricks girls, boys and souls into becoming magical girls, housing their souls in gems and hiring them out to fight witches...I couldn't be happier! and I know my client Lydia is going to treasure this piece for years to come! She said 'I am so excited to display this on my shelf. I have a whole base and glass cloche ready for it.This replica has been more than worth the wait. I'm so proud to be the first to receive a gem and I'm so happy you u/Ricksonjewelry have been able to grant the wish to make my soul gem shine.'

And now it is my great honor to share these Magic Girl Life Size Replica's to you and the world in my shop! Live for the first time today! 

So...are you ready to become a magical girl? What is the wish that will make YOUR soul gem shine? 😜

Rickson (Aka a real life nice Kyubey. ;)