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The Many Moods of Little Green

P: 7/22/2007 6:47:35 PM
Fly Girl Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,758 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 1/9/2007	I recently bought a chameleon diamond that I have had set into a simple gold ring for summer wear. My 1.50 ct F VS2 set in platinum is great, but is too much ring for the hot weather and many summer activities. I have had a plain gold band for about 20 years, ever since my hands enlarged during my first pregnancy. We thought it was going to be just temporary, but when my knuckles stayed large, it ended up being my only wedding band for many years. Lately, I have been dreaming of getting a simple solitaire to wear with it. I remember how wearable my original 0.21 ct e-ring was. Here are a couple of threads where I found (Link) and purchased (Link) this cute little green 0.50 ct SI2 Natural Fancy Intense Greenish Yellow "Chameleon" diamond. It has a modified pear shape and an IGI certificate. But it really is about the color changes. I have been taking pictures like crazy, trying to capture its many moods. I find this little gem incredibly fascinating, and am really enjoying getting to know it. Little Green is at his most yellow first thing in the morning. I wake him up, and he begins to turn green. Here is the best photo I have of him in the morning. I set him next to my 1.50 F VS2 ring, because it has graduated yellow diamond side stones for you to compare the color. **** Life is a Journey, not a Destination. ****
Posted: 7/22/2007 6:47:35 PM

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P: 7/22/2007 6:48:50 PM
Fly Girl Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,758 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 1/9/2007	In a few minutes Little Green is turning green. **** Life is a Journey, not a Destination. ****
Posted: 7/22/2007 6:48:50 PM

P: 7/22/2007 6:52:41 PM
Fly Girl Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,758 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 1/9/2007	Fully developed green color. I asked my jeweler to set Little Green in a matching gold ring, to keep the head low, and to allow me to wear it with my channel set anniversary ring as well. I think he did a great job. **** Life is a Journey, not a Destination. ****
Posted: 7/22/2007 6:52:41 PM

P: 7/22/2007 6:53:31 PM
Fly Girl Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,758 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 1/9/2007	Here is a side view of the setting. **** Life is a Journey, not a Destination. ****
Posted: 7/22/2007 6:53:31 PM

P: 7/22/2007 6:55:38 PM
rainydaze Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,498 Last Post: 5/19/2009 Member Since: 5/1/2007	how neat is that?!?! i've never seen a diamond like that, very pretty. green is one of my favorite colors, and your stone is a beautiful shade! What you feel only matters to you. It is what you do to the people you say you love that is what matters. - from The Last Kiss
Posted: 7/22/2007 6:55:38 PM

P: 7/22/2007 6:56:08 PM
Fly Girl Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,758 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 1/9/2007	I am discovering that Little Green is at his greenest in natural, but not direct, sunlight. He is also green under flourescent lights, so I get to enjoy him looking green while at the office. **** Life is a Journey, not a Destination. ****
Posted: 7/22/2007 6:56:08 PM

P: 7/22/2007 6:58:11 PM
Fly Girl Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,758 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 1/9/2007	In direct sunlight, like many diamonds, Little Green gets very dark. Here he is looking dark brown. **** Life is a Journey, not a Destination. ****
Posted: 7/22/2007 6:58:11 PM

P: 7/22/2007 6:59:38 PM
Fly Girl Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,758 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 1/9/2007	Little Green turns a medium yellow brown under incandescent lights. **** Life is a Journey, not a Destination. ****
Posted: 7/22/2007 6:59:38 PM

P: 7/22/2007 7:01:08 PM
Fly Girl Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,758 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 1/9/2007	Another sunny day hand shot. **** Life is a Journey, not a Destination. ****
Posted: 7/22/2007 7:01:08 PM

P: 7/22/2007 7:02:11 PM
Fly Girl Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,758 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 1/9/2007	From the side again, in the sun. **** Life is a Journey, not a Destination. ****
Posted: 7/22/2007 7:02:11 PM

P: 7/22/2007 7:03:31 PM
Fly Girl Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,758 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 1/9/2007	Some flower shots. Hanging out with the black-eyed Susans. **** Life is a Journey, not a Destination. ****
Posted: 7/22/2007 7:03:31 PM

P: 7/22/2007 7:04:20 PM
Fly Girl Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,758 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 1/9/2007	On an orange daylily. **** Life is a Journey, not a Destination. ****
Posted: 7/22/2007 7:04:20 PM

P: 7/22/2007 7:05:22 PM
Fly Girl Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,758 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 1/9/2007	Hiding in one of my "black-eyed Susan" daylilies. **** Life is a Journey, not a Destination. ****
Posted: 7/22/2007 7:05:22 PM

P: 7/22/2007 7:06:23 PM
Gothgrrl Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,203 Last Post: 6/7/2009 Member Since: 5/27/2006	What a sweet little guy. How cool is that? Changing colors with every mood. And I love that Little Green is a pear. Very nice and different! Little Green's too cool!! ...groovy... ..this is my boomstick.. ..gimme some sugar, baby..
Posted: 7/22/2007 7:06:23 PM

P: 7/22/2007 7:10:13 PM
Fly Girl Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,758 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 1/9/2007	I purchased a $10 UV light bulb at a local novelty shop a while back. Finally pulled it out to play with last night. The cert said that Little Green had slight flourescence. My jeweler said he had strong green flourescence. Judge for yourself. My 1.50 ct F VS2 has medium blue flourescence. My graduated yellow side stones come in many flourescent colors. **** Life is a Journey, not a Destination. ****
Posted: 7/22/2007 7:10:13 PM

P: 7/22/2007 7:17:00 PM
Fly Girl Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,758 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 1/9/2007	I accidently took at flash shot at the same time the UV blulb was glowing. So here is another look at the diamond's flourescence. By the way, the late RockDoc talks here (Link) about chameleons. He says they have a property called phosphorescence. Indeed, when I turned off the UV bulb, and looked very, very closely in a very dark room, I could see that Little Green was still glowing. So cool! So, I hope you all enjoyed sharing the many moods of Little Green with me. **** Life is a Journey, not a Destination. ****
Posted: 7/22/2007 7:17:00 PM

P: 7/22/2007 7:43:57 PM
Miranda Ideal Rock Total Posts: 4,042 Last Post: 9/24/2009 Member Since: 2/18/2006	Great pics! I LOVE little green!
Posted: 7/22/2007 7:43:57 PM

P: 7/22/2007 8:04:02 PM
Fly Girl Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,758 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 1/9/2007	Date: 7/22/2007 6:55:38 PM Author: rainydaze how neat is that?!?! i've never seen a diamond like that, very pretty. green is one of my favorite colors, and your stone is a beautiful shade! Thank you. Many of the chameleons I was looking at have grey modifiers in the color, or are more olive in color. I really liked that Little Green was a nice yellow green, without the grey. **** Life is a Journey, not a Destination. ****
Posted: 7/22/2007 8:04:02 PM

P: 7/22/2007 8:08:00 PM
Fly Girl Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,758 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 1/9/2007	Date: 7/22/2007 7:06:23 PM Author: Gothgrrl What a sweet little guy. How cool is that? Changing colors with every mood. And I love that Little Green is a pear. Very nice and different! Little Green's too cool!! Thanks, Gothgirl! Some of the chameleons I was looking at came as marquise shapes. I didn't want the pointy ends, because I didn't think that would be as wearable. Little Green is a very plump pear, almost an oval, and is turning out to be a very cute and wearable shape. **** Life is a Journey, not a Destination. ****
Posted: 7/22/2007 8:08:00 PM

P: 7/22/2007 8:12:21 PM
Fly Girl Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,758 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 1/9/2007	Date: 7/22/2007 7:43:57 PM Author: Miranda Great pics! I LOVE little green! Miranda - Thank you so much. I have several hundred more pictures. It was really hard to capture the colors I was seeing. I'd see yellow brown, and the picture would come out medium green. I never was able to capture the sparkle. Little Green does sparkle red, orange, yellow and green. I never see blue or purple. But I think my new camera is really good at removing the fire from the pictures. **** Life is a Journey, not a Destination. ****
Posted: 7/22/2007 8:12:21 PM

P: 7/22/2007 8:22:55 PM
ginseng_girl Rough Rock Total Posts: 59 Last Post: 6/9/2008 Member Since: 6/2/2007	wow!!!! i have never even heard of chameleon diamonds. that is a real treasure!
Posted: 7/22/2007 8:22:55 PM

P: 7/22/2007 8:44:03 PM
Fly Girl Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,758 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 1/9/2007	Date: 7/22/2007 8:22:55 PM Author: ginseng_girl wow!!!! i have never even heard of chameleon diamonds. that is a real treasure! Thank you, ginseng_girl. It is hard to find much information about chameleon diamonds. This link (Link) has a section on the page about chameleon diamonds that pretty much matches the characteristics that I see in my stone. You can see that they had problems capturing the unstable yellow color. **** Life is a Journey, not a Destination. ****
Posted: 7/22/2007 8:44:03 PM

P: 7/22/2007 11:01:22 PM
*DiamondDana** Ideal Rock Total Posts: 6,168 Last Post: 11/20/2009 Member Since: 7/21/2006	Little Green is very cool, I just love him! And the setting looks great! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you judge people, you have no time to love them ~Mother Teresa
Posted: 7/22/2007 11:01:22 PM

P: 7/22/2007 11:21:38 PM
Fly Girl Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,758 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 1/9/2007	Date: 7/22/2007 11:01:22 PM Author: DiamondDana Little Green is very cool, I just love him! And the setting looks great! Thanks, Diamond Dana! This stone is meant to be in yellow gold. But really, the setting is about as cheap as they come, with a narrow stock 14 k gold band and 1/2 ct stock pear fitting. But, so wearable!!! I love it, too! *** Life is a Journey, not a Destination. ****
Posted: 7/22/2007 11:21:38 PM

P: 7/22/2007 11:56:04 PM
sparklyfruit Rough Rock Total Posts: 27 Last Post: 10/13/2007 Member Since: 7/12/2007	Wow that is amazing! He looks great on his new band...I bet you never get tired of watching him change colours huh!? I love how you've named him Little Green - he has a little life of his own!
Posted: 7/22/2007 11:56:04 PM

P: 7/23/2007 12:21:52 AM
jstarfireb Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,141 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 3/24/2007	That is such a cool effect! I've never heard of a chameleon diamond, but I always thought green diamonds were very cool. Gorgeous! ************************** "In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song." -Muriel Barbary
Posted: 7/23/2007 12:21:52 AM

P: 7/23/2007 3:38:14 PM
jayrenay9 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 703 Last Post: 10/25/2009 Member Since: 8/3/2006	That is so cool!!! I've never seen anything like it! Beautiful! I bet you must get comments all the time.
Posted: 7/23/2007 3:38:14 PM

P: 7/23/2007 4:06:07 PM
Fly Girl Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,758 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 1/9/2007	Date: 7/22/2007 11:56:04 PM Author: sparklyfruit Wow that is amazing! He looks great on his new band...I bet you never get tired of watching him change colours huh!? I love how you've named him Little Green - he has a little life of his own! Yep. Each time I step into a different room, I look down and Little Green is a different color. I read that the late RockDoc said that people should name their pet rocks. His chameleon was named Camille. So, in honor of RockDoc, I wanted to be sure my pet chameleon had a name, too! **** Life is a Journey, not a Destination. ****
Posted: 7/23/2007 4:06:07 PM

P: 7/23/2007 4:28:28 PM
Fly Girl Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,758 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 1/9/2007	Thanks, jstarfireb and jayrenay9. I wear lots of reds, tans, yellows, and blues, and I think that Little Green goes well with everything. He really is very small. Most people don't notice the diamond. The comments I have gotten are from clerks in jewelry stores, and most of them have never seen a chameleon diamond either. **** Life is a Journey, not a Destination. ****
Posted: 7/23/2007 4:28:28 PM

P: 7/23/2007 4:32:40 PM
poshpepper Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,932 Last Post: 11/18/2009 Member Since: 6/22/2007	I love it! How perfect! I love the UV photo you took, very cool to seem them all light up, and the side stones in your bigger ring look crazy under that UV. Very cool! Congrats on a beautiful stone! __________________________________________________________ "You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly" ~ Sam Keen
Posted: 7/23/2007 4:32:40 PM

P: 7/23/2007 9:41:11 PM
Fly Girl Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,758 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 1/9/2007	Date: 7/23/2007 4:32:40 PM Author: poshpepper I love it! How perfect! I love the UV photo you took, very cool to seem them all light up, and the side stones in your bigger ring look crazy under that UV. Very cool! Congrats on a beautiful stone! Thanks, Poshpepper! Most of those side stones have strong or extremely strong green flour, because I can see it easily in the sunlight. I can understand how someone might not like the effect, because the pretty yellows are ruined then. But, I decided that it was a super cool effect, and I really think that diamonds that flouresce are something extra special to be enjoyed! I'm thinking that my new chameleon has strong yellow flour. Sure doesn't seem slight to me. Glad to hear that you like it as well! **** Life is a Journey, not a Destination. ****
Posted: 7/23/2007 9:41:11 PM

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