Cordelia ,'Dirty Girls'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
My mom's engagement ring was a small, round opal set as the center of a silver flower. I inherited the ring, and wear it occasionally. One of the petals is broken, though; I need to get that fixed.
I'd rather have a garnet or amethyst ring that had been in someone's family for a while than a new, expensive ring. I like the stories around jewelry as much as the shiny. Of course, someone has to buy the ring around which the stories accumulate.
My birthstone is a diamond. And I like diamonds a lot, but I don't feel like they're very *me*, really. I can't see running to the grocery store in my jeans and sneakers and a big sparkly thing on my finger, when I generally wear silver and turquoise.
This conversation made me remember this Family Guy clip that may be one of the best encapsulations of the current jewelery-industrial complex I've seen. [link]
I love opals.
I like any black stone too--onyx, anthracite, jet.
Me too. I like all the sparklies - including fakes, but there is something about black stones that really draws me in.
Diamonds are sparkly and hard but pretty much not worth the cost.
They just issued a blizzard warning. Fuck.
And my windshield has a very long, horizontal crack in it. I watched it creep across my field of view while driving home this afternoon.
I like opals, too, and I coveted my mother's small aquamarine ring when I was a kid.
I also wanted a coral ring like Amy got in Little Women.
Diamonds are oooh shiny pretty and mesmerizing, but I like the color.
ita, I am also a garnet freak! I dunno why, rubies just don't ping the same way; just love that deep, deep red.
Hmm, lessee -- favorite gemstone-type rock things: emerald, garnet, amber, moonstones, watermelon tourmaline
smonster, I love, love, love the hammered look on that ring. I adore and admire (and would not toss out of the window if given!) the whole ArtDeco square-cut set in platinum vintage diamond stunners, but it would looked so comical on my hand! I love the organic, hand-crafted feel of that ring and the emerald I linked to earlier. I also like the look of raw gemstones.
Well, I'm hitting the road now--wish me luck for my five mile drive home! If all goes well, it'll probably take about 30-45 minutes.