Resonance.Of.Life
Brilliant_Rock
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- Nov 8, 2008
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I've been holding out on my HFG (holy freaking grail) cushion that Grace (Jewels by Grace) and Anup (Jogani BH) obtained for me earlier this year. It's been quite the journey but strongly feel that this journey has come to an end. After 9 months of looking (and 4 years of figuring out what I really wanted in an antique cushion), they found my HFG cushion and it's the first diamond that actually made me gasp when I opened up the diamond paper. She is absolutely stunning and has that flowery faceting pattern that I've been craving in an antique cushion in a higher color. If your "unicorn" or "holy grail" diamond exists, I am sure that Grace or Anup can find it... and if they can't, it doesn't exist ! They actually came in under my original budget for my cushion and I would have loved to have found a GIA H (that's what my budget would have allowed), but alas, that wasn't in the cards for me.
I've been waffling on setting her as I NEED to get this setting right, for both my sanity and my husband's. But the setting will have to come later, we spent quite a bit of our "play money" on trying to save Tori, my first rescue dog and a senior at that when we adopted her 5 years ago. I still am grieving her loss and it's only been 2 weeks since she passed. But I'd give anything to have her back in a heartbeat, if that were at all possible.
Here is Isla in all her glory!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNnZDMTBYlc
Stats: 3.02 carats GIA I, Si1 (eye-clean)
9.45 mm X 8.83 mm
No fluor (would've loved medium to strong, but hey, the faceting is spot on).
She is incredibly hard to photograph, hard to capture the way the facets are arranged to my eyes. Tried my best !
I've been waffling on setting her as I NEED to get this setting right, for both my sanity and my husband's. But the setting will have to come later, we spent quite a bit of our "play money" on trying to save Tori, my first rescue dog and a senior at that when we adopted her 5 years ago. I still am grieving her loss and it's only been 2 weeks since she passed. But I'd give anything to have her back in a heartbeat, if that were at all possible.
Here is Isla in all her glory!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNnZDMTBYlc
Stats: 3.02 carats GIA I, Si1 (eye-clean)
9.45 mm X 8.83 mm
No fluor (would've loved medium to strong, but hey, the faceting is spot on).
She is incredibly hard to photograph, hard to capture the way the facets are arranged to my eyes. Tried my best !
This is definitely my idea of a *perfect* antique cushion, as well! 
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