vintageinjune
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Pictures first, story after! 14k white gold drop earrings with 0.31cts of G/H color VS/SI melee diamonds with 4.36 cts of white topaz:
Well, two years ago I was shopping with a friend of mine for her bridal jewelry, and while we were hitting up various jewelers (mostly for fun, as we ultimately went with costume jewelry for her wedding) we stumbled on a pair of earrings that had haunted me until recently. She tried on a pair they had that was with rose gold and either a very light amethyst or morganite center which looked amazing on her and terrible on me due to my skin tone. They style captivated me however, and turns out, they had the same style in white gold and white topaz. At the time, I was not looking to purchase any luxury items and felt the earrings were a bit over priced for what they are.
So weeks go by and I can't really get them out of my mind. I searched online and to my delight, I found them carried by a seller on Etsy for about $800 less than at the local jeweler. An amazing deal by comparison, but still more than I was willing to ask my husband to let me drop on a pair of earrings at that time, so I figured I'd wait for my birthday the next year and just kept them in my online shopping cart. Sadly, before then, I lost one of my stud earrings which had me switching gears to replacing those instead (which were about 3x as expensive as my dangle earrings).
This next part is a little bit of a pity party - feel free to skip! Most people I know had a rough 2020, and a rough 2021 so far as well, and while we are very fortunate in so many ways (job security for my husband through the whole pandemic, I moved to a better postion after being laid off due to the pandemic, etc.), what should be happy occasions are getting harder and harder to separate from the sad. I lost my grandmother in 2019 on my niece's birthday (we still haven't told her her great-grandma died on her birthday, she can find out when she is an adult, if ever), on my birthday last year her sister, my great-aunt (who raised practically everyone on my mom's side of the family, and who let me live with her when I was in college), passed away on my birthday. My grandfather passed away the day before Christmas. We lost our beloved bird, Symba, who was our love and joy for 11 precious years, three months ago. When our anniversary came this year,the week before we had decided to do dinner on the weekend to celebrate, since it fell during the work week, but day of, aside from saying "Happy anniversary" when we woke up in the morning, there was no special acknowledgement or effort made to mark the day as different from any other.... turns out, that really bothered me. My husband does not care about any holidays/birthdays/anniversaries, but I do. We ended up forgoing dinner out that weekend, as I could not muster up any enthusiasm, and after some soul searching we had a talk about it being important to me for him to do something for these occasions - have dinner ready when I get home, do some house keeping, buy some flowers or a new plant to add to my collection, just, something! So, he asked me what he could do to make my upcoming birthday feel more special, and I let him know about the earrings I've been coveting, and with is blessing I went to order them so they could be delivered in time for my birthday (the Etsy store said 6-8 weeks for delivery as they needed to be made).
Alright, well, I went to buy the earrings from the Etsy seller (who had them a mere week before, because I somewhat obsessively kept moving them from my "save for later" list to my cart every few weeks for nearly two years) but..... they stopped carrying them! At first I was just willing to accept it was not meant to be, but went and searched the local jewelers website and sure enough, they still had them! Of course, still about $800 more than the online vendor. I was willing to try and find something less expensive but still nice, but my husband, who knows me too well in some cases, gently insisted it was alright to buy them from the local jeweler despite the increased expense (I felt like I'd inadvertently done a bait and switch by telling him how much they were, then going, oh, just kidding, turns out I'll have to spend a lot more to get them now).
He cheerfully went with me to the store to try them on, because I've also realized that I enjoy having him be a part of the journey, and his approval is also important to me. When we got there..... they didn't have the earrings in stock! Thankfully, they were able to order them in by the next week, so a week later we visited again, I was able to try on the earrings and verify I did indeed love them as much as I did two years ago, and I wore them out of the store. ^_^
I'm wearing them this weekend to confirm I haven't developed a nickel allergy, then we'll put them back in their box and I will get to open them for my birthday this year! They are not custom, nor are they the most expensive earrings ever, but I adore them - classy with just a little edge due to the enlongated pear cuts and less conventional orientation (seems most earrings have the pointed end up, not down).
While nothing is going to make the losses of this last year any less painful, it is nice to have something physical to see that symbolizes the joy that is still to be found in this world, and the acknowledgement that I am not any less good of a person for wanting to find and celebrate events I consider special. I'm blessed beyond measure to have found my partner in life, who is willing to make small changes for me to help me make the most of it while we can. <3
Well, two years ago I was shopping with a friend of mine for her bridal jewelry, and while we were hitting up various jewelers (mostly for fun, as we ultimately went with costume jewelry for her wedding) we stumbled on a pair of earrings that had haunted me until recently. She tried on a pair they had that was with rose gold and either a very light amethyst or morganite center which looked amazing on her and terrible on me due to my skin tone. They style captivated me however, and turns out, they had the same style in white gold and white topaz. At the time, I was not looking to purchase any luxury items and felt the earrings were a bit over priced for what they are.
So weeks go by and I can't really get them out of my mind. I searched online and to my delight, I found them carried by a seller on Etsy for about $800 less than at the local jeweler. An amazing deal by comparison, but still more than I was willing to ask my husband to let me drop on a pair of earrings at that time, so I figured I'd wait for my birthday the next year and just kept them in my online shopping cart. Sadly, before then, I lost one of my stud earrings which had me switching gears to replacing those instead (which were about 3x as expensive as my dangle earrings).
This next part is a little bit of a pity party - feel free to skip! Most people I know had a rough 2020, and a rough 2021 so far as well, and while we are very fortunate in so many ways (job security for my husband through the whole pandemic, I moved to a better postion after being laid off due to the pandemic, etc.), what should be happy occasions are getting harder and harder to separate from the sad. I lost my grandmother in 2019 on my niece's birthday (we still haven't told her her great-grandma died on her birthday, she can find out when she is an adult, if ever), on my birthday last year her sister, my great-aunt (who raised practically everyone on my mom's side of the family, and who let me live with her when I was in college), passed away on my birthday. My grandfather passed away the day before Christmas. We lost our beloved bird, Symba, who was our love and joy for 11 precious years, three months ago. When our anniversary came this year,the week before we had decided to do dinner on the weekend to celebrate, since it fell during the work week, but day of, aside from saying "Happy anniversary" when we woke up in the morning, there was no special acknowledgement or effort made to mark the day as different from any other.... turns out, that really bothered me. My husband does not care about any holidays/birthdays/anniversaries, but I do. We ended up forgoing dinner out that weekend, as I could not muster up any enthusiasm, and after some soul searching we had a talk about it being important to me for him to do something for these occasions - have dinner ready when I get home, do some house keeping, buy some flowers or a new plant to add to my collection, just, something! So, he asked me what he could do to make my upcoming birthday feel more special, and I let him know about the earrings I've been coveting, and with is blessing I went to order them so they could be delivered in time for my birthday (the Etsy store said 6-8 weeks for delivery as they needed to be made).
Alright, well, I went to buy the earrings from the Etsy seller (who had them a mere week before, because I somewhat obsessively kept moving them from my "save for later" list to my cart every few weeks for nearly two years) but..... they stopped carrying them! At first I was just willing to accept it was not meant to be, but went and searched the local jewelers website and sure enough, they still had them! Of course, still about $800 more than the online vendor. I was willing to try and find something less expensive but still nice, but my husband, who knows me too well in some cases, gently insisted it was alright to buy them from the local jeweler despite the increased expense (I felt like I'd inadvertently done a bait and switch by telling him how much they were, then going, oh, just kidding, turns out I'll have to spend a lot more to get them now).
He cheerfully went with me to the store to try them on, because I've also realized that I enjoy having him be a part of the journey, and his approval is also important to me. When we got there..... they didn't have the earrings in stock! Thankfully, they were able to order them in by the next week, so a week later we visited again, I was able to try on the earrings and verify I did indeed love them as much as I did two years ago, and I wore them out of the store. ^_^
I'm wearing them this weekend to confirm I haven't developed a nickel allergy, then we'll put them back in their box and I will get to open them for my birthday this year! They are not custom, nor are they the most expensive earrings ever, but I adore them - classy with just a little edge due to the enlongated pear cuts and less conventional orientation (seems most earrings have the pointed end up, not down).
While nothing is going to make the losses of this last year any less painful, it is nice to have something physical to see that symbolizes the joy that is still to be found in this world, and the acknowledgement that I am not any less good of a person for wanting to find and celebrate events I consider special. I'm blessed beyond measure to have found my partner in life, who is willing to make small changes for me to help me make the most of it while we can. <3
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