My new stones from Dana

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Here are my new stones from Dana, my first (but won''t be my last!) order from him.

First, the Tanzanian color-shift garnet. It''s sleeting today; this shot was taken in the brightest daylight available right now. Fuchsia flashes.

 

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It usually is darker than that, more like this, with a very dark purple body with neon-bright flashes:

 

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This balance of dark and bright is typical of the stone:

 

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This shot is a little blurry, but it gives a good idea of how the color shifts. Here I was standing by the window with the incandescent light on overhead. The purple flashes are from daylight; the red flashes are from the lightbulb. Cool effect, no?

 

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My new-customer gift from Dana, a Nigerian spess. It''s a lovely red-orange, on the dark side. DH loves it. I think I will set it as a pendant and give it to our niece for her birthday--garnet is her birthstone and she has DH''s dark coloring and beautiful dark reddish-brown eyes. I think it will suit her.

 

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The gift pear in a redder mood.

 

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Loliondo spess pair, shown with my new Loliondo. Wow, these stones do NOT photograph well. They''re MUCH prettier in person. I may make the pair into earrings to wear with the cushion.

 

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The teeny, tiny tsavorite pair. Again, much prettier than this picture. Someday they''ll be side stones in a ring, probably.

 

[chrono]

Wow, I love the picture where you are able to catch both shift colours in the garnet. That spess has that amazing burning colour too. I wish you are able to take good pictures of the spess because I really want to "see" it. Oh well...I understand these Loliondos are camera shy though.

 

[Fly Girl]

Cool color-shift garnet. Great shot showing both colors at once.

So nice to see your stones. Love that pretty spess pear.

 

[Largosmom]

Wow, veeery nice. Love the color shift on the garnet, very cool, and interesting to see both warm and cooler color in the same stone (at least to my eyes). I would never have thought that possible. Love the Loliandos as well, I''m on the hunt for some too.

Laura

 

[LD]

Lucky you they all look gorgeous (especially the garnet). What are your plans?

 

[T L]

Glitterata,
Wow, you''ve been a busy shopper!! I''m so looking forward to the fabulous jewelry pieces you''ll be making out of those. How nice to get a free spessartite, the color change garnet is cool.

 

[Stone Hunter]

The color change Garnet is very very cool looking. I bet it''d be even cooler to wear it!! When the weather gets better see if it looks different outside in shade than outside in sun. I bet it does.

The pear Spess is great I like the color.

The smaller Spess are a good match for your new cushion. I''d go with earring charms!

The small Tsavs are really cool. I don''t remember seeing them on the site. Good purchase.

Congrats and TFS!!

 

[Cind11]

Very pretty stones. I like the color change garnet the best and the tsavorites are yummy too.

 

[glitterata]

Thanks for the kind words! Yes, I MUST stop buying stones.

The only one that's getting set any time soon is the gift spess, the red one, which I think will be a pendant for my niece's January birthday.

Before the color shifter got here I thought I would have Julia bezel it, but it clearly needs prongs--a bezel would cut off way too much light, and it's dark already. I envision it in a platinum ring set NS with diamond trillions or pears as side stones. But that would cost way more than I'd like to spend, so I'll probably keep it loose for a while and consider other options. Maybe I'll find a great empty vintage setting on ebay, like I did with my tsav and my .73 ct Infinity J I1. In fact, I just won a neat empty platinum deco/retro setting, but it's not big enough for that garnet.

The light spesses are crying out for high-carat gold settings. Earrings to match the cushion, I think, with the cushion in a ring. Earring charms are a great idea. But I'm going to wait for gold to go down in price, which might be a few years. Tradergirl, tell me--how long will I have to wait?

 

[mariedtiger]

Awesome pictures Glitterata! Nice stones too, I love how the loliondo spess go with your cushion

 

[Lovinggems]

Gorgeous colours, I'm getting some goodies from Dana as well and I can't wait to view them in real life.
I'm looking forward to see how you set your gems.

 

[chictomato]

BEAUTIFUL Color shift, I always love color changer!

 

[ma re]

Lovely stones, I especially like the oval garnet and a pear spess!

 

[marcy]

Pretty stones.

 

[brandy_z28]

Date: 12/5/2009 3:17:42 PM
Author: glitterata
This shot is a little blurry, but it gives a good idea of how the color shifts. Here I was standing by the window with the incandescent light on overhead. The purple flashes are from daylight; the red flashes are from the lightbulb. Cool effect, no?

That picture and effect is VERY cool! Nice stones!