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Shiny_Rock
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- Jun 22, 2011
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Some of you are familiar with my long-time quest for the perfect pale lavender spinel, and I am so thrilled that we finally found THE stone! I had emailed Brad about a few of the colour change spinels that have come up in his drops lately, and he wrote me back out of the blue one day to let me know that one I had inquired about was available again. While the photos he sent suggested that the stone was darker than I wanted, he had included another stone to demonstrate contrast, and it just jumped out at me.
I asked about it, and lucky for me he hadn't shown it to anyone yet, and it was absolutely PERFECTLY my dream stone! I immediately sent a note to my boyfriend, and crossed my fingers.
Sure enough, months later, after waiting in agony (and hoping that things had gone my way since I never did see that stone show up in any of Brad's posts in the meantime), I was surprised with my stone set in a lovely white gold solitaire while we were home for the holidays. The setting is temporary for now, but we are going to take our time selecting it's forever home, and possibly wait until an anniversary to choose the right one.
It's a lovely pillowy cushion shape, portuguese cut, and just sparkles like crazy! The colour shifts in tone and saturation to show more pink or blue depending on the light source, but it's always bright, and even takes on this glowing character sometimes. My favourite is in diffuse sunlight - the saturation is low, and the most lovely lavender with no grey at all (that is nearly impossible to photograph). It gets mistaken for a purple diamond all the time.
Sorry for holding out for so long to share the news and post pics! It's so hard to photograph, as the camera shadow obscures how bright it is, so forgive the quality of the pics - many are with my iPhone. I'll start with a vendor photo:
more photos to come...
I asked about it, and lucky for me he hadn't shown it to anyone yet, and it was absolutely PERFECTLY my dream stone! I immediately sent a note to my boyfriend, and crossed my fingers.
Sure enough, months later, after waiting in agony (and hoping that things had gone my way since I never did see that stone show up in any of Brad's posts in the meantime), I was surprised with my stone set in a lovely white gold solitaire while we were home for the holidays. The setting is temporary for now, but we are going to take our time selecting it's forever home, and possibly wait until an anniversary to choose the right one.
It's a lovely pillowy cushion shape, portuguese cut, and just sparkles like crazy! The colour shifts in tone and saturation to show more pink or blue depending on the light source, but it's always bright, and even takes on this glowing character sometimes. My favourite is in diffuse sunlight - the saturation is low, and the most lovely lavender with no grey at all (that is nearly impossible to photograph). It gets mistaken for a purple diamond all the time.
Sorry for holding out for so long to share the news and post pics! It's so hard to photograph, as the camera shadow obscures how bright it is, so forgive the quality of the pics - many are with my iPhone. I'll start with a vendor photo:
more photos to come...
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