Making an honest woman of me
Aug. 15th, 2007 09:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cthulhiaIt's less than a month to my 8th wedding anniversary, and I only now have gotten around to buying myself spouse a ring.
While dropping off my bean's broken chain for repair, I had to see what aquamarines they had on display. It's my favorite stone. It's increasingly rare to find them instead of Blue Topaz, which are evil and wrong. (Topaz rarely occurs in blue, they treat it to get that color, and, now that the darker blue is more popular, they often treat aquamarines... and make them too dark. Tiffany's apparently has a policy about only using the naturally colored stone. In any case, the one I got was light enough that I believe it.)
This style, only with an aquamarine. Apparently they expect you to wear multiples of these on one finger. (You're welcome to buy me the peridot one, of course. if you can find it in my size. 7.5 fits ring and middle finger, mostly. The new ring fits all 4, but my college ring is allegedly the same size and will not fit my right middle finger.) I can't find the aqua version anywhere online. Was totally expecting to find it for half the price in 50 places simply because it was an impulse buy. (And wow, there's some atrocious jewelry design out there that makes me respect Tiffany's all the more). So that was a relief.
No, I didn't spend 2 months income on a ring, or whatever the math is. If I really loved me, I would've bought me this. Although, for that kinda "love", I could buy a Steve Hollinger sculpture made to order (something that combines the jellyfish and kwajalein) and the snake necklace (and maybe get it set with an aqua rather than that dumb ol' ruby.)
I also found the milky-quartz-like aqua beads my sister got me. Although she strung them with gold-tone findings, which make them look awful, so I need to add restringing them with silver (probably something like the necklace shown here) to my post-art show todo list. Although, I gave away my jewerly pliers and such-like years ago. Maybe I can find a 1-day class or something.
While dropping off my bean's broken chain for repair, I had to see what aquamarines they had on display. It's my favorite stone. It's increasingly rare to find them instead of Blue Topaz, which are evil and wrong. (Topaz rarely occurs in blue, they treat it to get that color, and, now that the darker blue is more popular, they often treat aquamarines... and make them too dark. Tiffany's apparently has a policy about only using the naturally colored stone. In any case, the one I got was light enough that I believe it.)
This style, only with an aquamarine. Apparently they expect you to wear multiples of these on one finger. (You're welcome to buy me the peridot one, of course. if you can find it in my size. 7.5 fits ring and middle finger, mostly. The new ring fits all 4, but my college ring is allegedly the same size and will not fit my right middle finger.) I can't find the aqua version anywhere online. Was totally expecting to find it for half the price in 50 places simply because it was an impulse buy. (And wow, there's some atrocious jewelry design out there that makes me respect Tiffany's all the more). So that was a relief.
No, I didn't spend 2 months income on a ring, or whatever the math is. If I really loved me, I would've bought me this. Although, for that kinda "love", I could buy a Steve Hollinger sculpture made to order (something that combines the jellyfish and kwajalein) and the snake necklace (and maybe get it set with an aqua rather than that dumb ol' ruby.)
I also found the milky-quartz-like aqua beads my sister got me. Although she strung them with gold-tone findings, which make them look awful, so I need to add restringing them with silver (probably something like the necklace shown here) to my post-art show todo list. Although, I gave away my jewerly pliers and such-like years ago. Maybe I can find a 1-day class or something.
