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If any of you have loose prongs on your gems, please please please, have them checked out by a jeweler. I went to the grocery store to pick up just a few items after work, and I was wearing my 6.16 carat Lolliondo spessartite trillion from Gene. It was shaking a little in the setting, but I thought it was secure enough. Well, on the drive from my way home from the store, I went to look down at my setting and the stone was gone. I was devastated the past couple of days. I thought it was lost forever and down the trash, and no one would ever find it. My best hope was that someone would find it intact and use it in a piece of jewelry since it's a stone that should be loved and adored.
I noticed my 2.8 carat Tanzanian violet blue spinel was shaking in the setting, so I took it to my jeweler the next day because I didn't want to lose another gem. That stone is one of my very favorite gems.
Fortunately, I found my Loliondo (happy ending). I bought cookies from the store and they were in a paper bag. I ate a cookie on the way home from the store in the car. Once home, I emptied the paper bag into a ziplock bag. I just dumped the whole bag of cookies in the ziplock, and didn't realize the stone had fallen in there when I was emptying it. Had I emptied the paper bag of cookies one by one, it would have been lost forever in the trash. That would have been horrific, and that stone cannot be easily replaced for it's size, color and quality. I thought I had looked everywhere for that gem, my purse, the car, the grocery bag, pockets and I didn't think to check the cookie bag. Although it's a large gem, 6 carats, these rocks are SMALL. They can get lost so easily. That ziplock bag had the gem in there for two days before I found it.
When I saw it in the ziplock this morning, it looked like a piece of orange candy. It was the best piece of candy I had ever seen. I jumped for joy. I'm so happy and relieved to have my spessartite back, but it taught me a lesson. If any of your gems are shaking around in a setting, please have them checked out by a jeweler, and please make sure the prongs are secure. I know too many people that have lost diamonds that way, and I don't want this to happen to any one of my PS colored stoner friends.
My loliondo has rounded edges, and the prongs were more sharp, so it did get a bit loose. It was not the jeweler's fault, but I do need to rethink how I'm going to set it now since it is such a fancy shape.
I noticed my 2.8 carat Tanzanian violet blue spinel was shaking in the setting, so I took it to my jeweler the next day because I didn't want to lose another gem. That stone is one of my very favorite gems.
Fortunately, I found my Loliondo (happy ending). I bought cookies from the store and they were in a paper bag. I ate a cookie on the way home from the store in the car. Once home, I emptied the paper bag into a ziplock bag. I just dumped the whole bag of cookies in the ziplock, and didn't realize the stone had fallen in there when I was emptying it. Had I emptied the paper bag of cookies one by one, it would have been lost forever in the trash. That would have been horrific, and that stone cannot be easily replaced for it's size, color and quality. I thought I had looked everywhere for that gem, my purse, the car, the grocery bag, pockets and I didn't think to check the cookie bag. Although it's a large gem, 6 carats, these rocks are SMALL. They can get lost so easily. That ziplock bag had the gem in there for two days before I found it.
When I saw it in the ziplock this morning, it looked like a piece of orange candy. It was the best piece of candy I had ever seen. I jumped for joy. I'm so happy and relieved to have my spessartite back, but it taught me a lesson. If any of your gems are shaking around in a setting, please have them checked out by a jeweler, and please make sure the prongs are secure. I know too many people that have lost diamonds that way, and I don't want this to happen to any one of my PS colored stoner friends.
My loliondo has rounded edges, and the prongs were more sharp, so it did get a bit loose. It was not the jeweler's fault, but I do need to rethink how I'm going to set it now since it is such a fancy shape.
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