I almost feel like you would need to wear a haz-mat suit to wear that thing.
I appreciate your very kind words! The main stone and the melee really do complement each other well and pack quite the punch! Were you tempted at all? 
Thank you so much. hahaha You might be right! I appreciate your comments! Is there such a thing though?! If so, I must find it!
Hey, only if I'm allowed to wear something of yours. Thank you!
Thank you so much, azstonie. I want to preface my story by saying that I'm never lucky; I'm never the person who is in the right place at the right time. Ever. So one day while I was browsing Etsy, I decided to check Yvonne Raley's store. Low and behold, what did I see? Paraiba melee! Wait, what?! I couldn't believe it because a) they were actually nice (unlike the one you saw...which I saw A TON of as well), and b) they were there, available to buy. I thought I was going to go through this long, difficult battle of having a vendor source some that in the end I probably wouldn't have been happy with anyway. But here they were! My main stone was at AGL so I was a little hesitant to buy them since the whole purpose was to see how well they'd match my stone. I contacted Yvonne and explained my situation. She was willing to hold them for me if I bought them. No question! So I bought 30. It was very nice of her to do that for me, so when I got my stone back from AGL she shipped out the melee. And I could not believe how well they matched, especially since my main stone is typically green-blue. But the finished ring blows me away every time I look at it because it all came together perfectly. I don't imagine I'll ever be this lucky again, but that's okay because I was once. 
ETA: I came to find out she picked them up in Tucson on the very last day (as the vendor didn't quite know what they were or how valuable they are), and she listed them shortly thereafter. So, note to self: that's a good time to check vendor listings! 
azstonie|1442535285|3929035 said:Get down with your bad, bad, PARAIBA self!!!
Freakin' amazing ring!!!!
Would you share with us the efforts you had to go to to get the paraiba melee?
I was at a jeweler in Scottsdale a few weekends ago. The counter dude whispers to me, "Take a look at THIS!" and unfolds diamond paper origamied into the little packet. He shakes out a pale blue stone, completely dead, and an odd cut. He looks expectantly at me! I'm thinking its the ugliest tourm or blue topaz EVER OMG what do I say and while my brain is working on this he triumphantaly shouts "Paraiba!" I say "Oh, yes, right, uh-huh, wow, will you look at that?"
Definitely not a paraiba. Paraibas are like the Supreme Court statement on ****: Know it when I see it.
So thanks for showing us your paraiba, and WE SURE AS HECK KNOW THAT'S A PARAIBA!!!
....picking myself up off the floor.... c'est magnifique. 
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