I have a new station bracelet from Yvonne! I'd had some leftover tsavorite melee and opted on having it set in one of her small four-petal flower settings. The chain is a mix of WG and RG and the flower is RG. It was a nice economical birthday treat
Beautiful! You have a good eye, and good taste! @TheGarnetGirl !Leslie your post reminded me that I had some small treasure to share; the little sleeping beauty turquoise dangles that I made last night for my 18k flower hooks!
Cost me $20 to make the turquoise dangles which I switch out with other handmade gemstone dangles on those hooks.
They are timeless looking, I agree. I already have two other station bracelets from CRD, one in WG with a blue sapphire and one in RG with a paraiba tourmaline. I'm 63, so I fit your description of the older woman with the pricier gems, lol! Will post a picture with all of them when I get my new bracelet next week.
Leslie your post reminded me that I had some small treasure to share; the little sleeping beauty turquoise dangles that I made last night for my 18k flower hooks!
Cost me $20 to make the turquoise dangles which I switch out with other handmade gemstone dangles on those hooks.
Received the drops, 18k flower ear hooks and wire today and made these bad boys!
Im in love with them!
I swear this year is year of the solid gold DIY gemstone dangle earring! I just cant stop making them because they're pretty affordable, fun to make, and in the end I get a beautiful pair of dangle earrings that are high quality.
These ear hooks were about 5x the amount I usually spend on solid gold hooks but they're a nice gauge, 18k, and have beautiful little flowers on them so I couldn't resist!
they are gorgouseAm I allowed to join the thread at around $200usd?
My Apple Jade earrings. Haha actually apples!
i don't know why sometimes thr smiles work and sometimes don't
Am I allowed to join the thread at around $200usd?
My Apple Jade earrings. Haha actually apples!
Nice finds! It does give me a heart attack storing so many in one box, but you may be OK there with most of them as cabs. I buy mostly faceted gems, and they are pointy on the bottom, so that when I put a larger gem in, the smaller gems will always fall toward the larger gem if they're not far enough apart, and knock against the larger gem so that I fear they will chip one another.I actually like that 6mm cab.
Meaning I might have bought it- would that make me a damn sucker? (:
I just love the salmon color that is displayed in all of its waxy-glowy lustrous glory!
Speaking of rhodochrosite, I put my drops that I made on a pair of small generic 14k yellow gold hoops that have lighter pinky-purple amethysts (which I picked up at a pawn shop for $10) and I'm in love with the color combination and the juxtaposition of the sparkle of the amethysts with the waxy glow of my micro-faceted chubby rhodos.
Also just for fun, here's a box of small purchases full of green and blue gemstones.
It has: a green tourmaline (suspected), a cat eye alexandrite cabochon, my peridot cushion cab, a lonely lighter emerald cab, and my paraiba lookalike gem silica.
I'm sure I'll give someone a heart attack storing so many in one box but I promise they're snug and immobile.
Mama bought this lovely and HUMONGOUS Malachite cabochon for $10 including shipping off of Etsy. It was a pretty blind buy from an Indian shop that sells lots of labradorites and moonstone but I think this malachite is especially lovely.
(I'm using that phrase because with many large wholesale Indian sellers whom all resemble eachothers stores in some way and are very discount, you never know what youre going to get; either youre lucky and its as lovely or more so than their photos or most of the time its the opposite and you realize why they were priced as such.)
Along with Lapis, Malachite was my first love and an "in" if you will when I took the leap in interest from display crystals/palm stones to gemstones 7/8 years ago. So malachite still holds a very dear place in my heart.
I will be sending this large boy off to my lovely silversmith who will make one huge and sturdy ring out of it! I love stamping little sayings that resemble the "energy" of each stone on the inside band of my large silver rings so if anyone has one word or a small saying that reminds them of malachite and what the stone represents, do tell!
(For example for my large chubby heart/pear cabochon that is a mix of sunstone and moonstone from Madagascar with rainbow schiller and adularescence, on the inside of its band its stamped with "Those beautiful synchronicities".)
It’s a pretty piece!
Suum cuique I say; To each their own! Although I'm glad you find this malachite lovely girly!
I'm quite sensitive to weight on my fingers, which I attribute to having played piano for some years. I'm at the keyboard a lot both at work and off work (video games). Anything that slows down my 100 WPM typing (in a discernible way to me) would be too heavy for me.
Mama bought this lovely and HUMONGOUS Malachite cabochon for $10 including shipping off of Etsy. It was a pretty blind buy from an Indian shop that sells lots of labradorites and moonstone but I think this malachite is especially lovely.
(I'm using that phrase because with many large wholesale Indian sellers whom all resemble eachothers stores in some way and are very discount, you never know what youre going to get; either youre lucky and its as lovely or more so than their photos or most of the time its the opposite and you realize why they were priced as such.)
Along with Lapis, Malachite was my first love and an "in" if you will when I took the leap in interest from display crystals/palm stones to gemstones 7/8 years ago. So malachite still holds a very dear place in my heart.
I will be sending this large boy off to my lovely silversmith who will make one huge and sturdy ring out of it! I love stamping little sayings that resemble the "energy" of each stone on the inside band of my large silver rings so if anyone has one word or a small saying that reminds them of malachite and what the stone represents, do tell!
(For example for my large chubby heart/pear cabochon that is a mix of sunstone and moonstone from Madagascar with rainbow schiller and adularescence, on the inside of its band its stamped with "Those beautiful synchronicities".)
Topaz and Garnet half bands in Sterling silver.
Randomly placed on index finger, will probably wear them on the right hand.
I found this little 5.5mm garnet in a random crystal shop on my birthday a few days ago and had to purchase it as it was only $9.95.
I got home & realized that it looks superb with these 3mm brown/gold/champagne-y diamonds that Ive had for so long and have always wanted to use.
They are all begging for rose gold!
I put them next to 3 different metals and there was none as beautiful in comparison.
So this will become a sweet lil' three stone ring sometime soon in 14k rose gold.
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