My mother's tiny emerald has worked for more than 40 years!
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Jesse - Dec 08, 2009 9:56:32 am PST #23684 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
megan walker - Dec 08, 2009 10:00:43 am PST #23685 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
My mother's tiny emerald has worked for more than 40 years!
Not that they'll break! It's just that almost all of them have flaws and they should be protected more than other stones. I still covet my mom's gorgeous emerald (despite its huge flaw).
Strix - Dec 08, 2009 10:00:55 am PST #23686 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Yeah, and they're pricey, too. But they are the most beautiful to me...I wouldn't want a sticky-out ring.
And my mom has a ton of opals and those damn things are a PITA.
megan walker - Dec 08, 2009 10:01:34 am PST #23687 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Opals are super soft.
Jesse - Dec 08, 2009 10:02:23 am PST #23688 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Not that they'll break! It's just that almost all of them have flaws and they should be protected more than other stones. I still covet my mom's gorgeous emerald (despite its huge flaw).
Heh. Actually, it's so tiny it's flat into the setting, which is just above the band, so there's nothing to see but green.
...of course, part of the story is that they decided they couldn't afford a diamond ring, but my father couldn't resist this emerald, which cost as much as an equivalent diamond. Oops.
megan walker - Dec 08, 2009 10:06:44 am PST #23689 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Heh. Actually, it's so tiny it's flat into the setting, which is just above the band, so there's nothing to see but green.
Yeah, my mom's ring is that way. You have to really be looking at it to notice.
they couldn't afford a diamond ring, but my father couldn't resist this emerald, which cost as much as an equivalent diamond. Oops.
Once you reach a larger size, almost any emerald would be more expensive than a diamond. And rubies? Forget about it.
SuziQ - Dec 08, 2009 10:13:00 am PST #23690 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I'm looking into getting the diamond from my engagement ring reset along with the diamonds from a set of earring KCD had bought me. I don't think I would purchase diamonds now, but setting the ones I have so that I will wear them seems like a reasonable thing to do.
If I were purchasing something new, I'd probably lean toward sapphire.
Steph L. - Dec 08, 2009 10:13:18 am PST #23691 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
are engagement rings REALLY supposed to be three months salary?!
I thought it was 2 months. It's 3 now?
God bless the parasitical marriage industry. Long may it continue to fleece people in the name of tradition.
Strix - Dec 08, 2009 10:15:35 am PST #23692 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
The ring I wear now was my grandma's, and she willed it to me - only reason I wear a diamond.
The diamonds in it were in her original wedding ring, and my grandpa bought her a bigger one for their 25th and she had the diamonds from the first one set into this elaborate white gold 60's dinner ring. It's definitely unique!
smonster - Dec 08, 2009 10:16:21 am PST #23693 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I like sapphires, and it's my birth stone. I also loathe solitaire settings.
I remember having this conversation a few years ago... I think I ended up engaged to Plei b/c of a ring she linked.