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Hi PS'ers,
So I'm having the 3 stones shipped to Leon this week. Wheee....I can't wait to see the finished ring....soooo exciting....but the 6-8 weeks wait is agonising!!
Some of you may remember I bought a 2.656ct H Si2 (eye-clean of course
) signature H&A stone from BGD in comtemplation of using it in my 3-stone ring. Well, I didn't, obviously, lol!
. I didn't want to return it to them since I got such a good price for it (prior to the recent price hike craze). I thought that maybe I wanted to get a match for it and return/ sell my 4.649ctw J VS2 studs (ie. upgrade them); but then I looked at currrent prices and realised I'd effectively be making a "loss" since prices have shot through the roof since I bought them, so decided not to return the J VS's. Also, there's not much of a visual difference between 2.3ct and 2.6ct - so no point having two similar pairs of studs, right?!
I may still upgrade the J's eventually to 3ct each (ie. when I hit the jackpot in the lottery, ha ha
), but this means that I still have this 2.66ct H stone.
I'm thinking now perhaps to reset it to a pendant with an inexpensive setting (but I don't wear pendants, though am lusting after a rivieva (sp?) necklace and would like one at some point in the future - perhaps when I hit my second jackpot, lol!! Seriously though, I may be able to swing it for my 50th b'day or our 20th wedding anniversary - so I could save this stone to use as the largest centre stone in said comtemplated necklace).
Alternatively, since I've been lusting after a halo ring (and I do *not* want to send my 3.02ct F VS2 half way round the world for this purpose - at the risk of having it stolen/ losing it), I thought I may use this opportunity to set this 2.66ct into a halo ring. There are several halo'es that I love.
PS'ers, pls help me once again to decide what I should do with this stone. This would be my final project for the next several years (long several years they will be
) - until DH decides to buy me that monstrous 5ct or until I get my riviera necklace.
Thanks very much once again.
So choices:
1) Inexpensive Pendant - like the BGD Barbara pendant or one in a simple martini setting
2) Halo'ed ring with milgrain border, like risingsun's
3) Micro pave halo ring, like lvnut's
4) Fun modern ring, similar to Asscherhalo_lover's, but with pink and white (instead of yellow) melee diamonds and milgrain border
5) Bite the bullet and ask Leon to make it!!
So I'm having the 3 stones shipped to Leon this week. Wheee....I can't wait to see the finished ring....soooo exciting....but the 6-8 weeks wait is agonising!!

Some of you may remember I bought a 2.656ct H Si2 (eye-clean of course


I'm thinking now perhaps to reset it to a pendant with an inexpensive setting (but I don't wear pendants, though am lusting after a rivieva (sp?) necklace and would like one at some point in the future - perhaps when I hit my second jackpot, lol!! Seriously though, I may be able to swing it for my 50th b'day or our 20th wedding anniversary - so I could save this stone to use as the largest centre stone in said comtemplated necklace).
Alternatively, since I've been lusting after a halo ring (and I do *not* want to send my 3.02ct F VS2 half way round the world for this purpose - at the risk of having it stolen/ losing it), I thought I may use this opportunity to set this 2.66ct into a halo ring. There are several halo'es that I love.
PS'ers, pls help me once again to decide what I should do with this stone. This would be my final project for the next several years (long several years they will be
Thanks very much once again.
So choices:
1) Inexpensive Pendant - like the BGD Barbara pendant or one in a simple martini setting
2) Halo'ed ring with milgrain border, like risingsun's
3) Micro pave halo ring, like lvnut's
4) Fun modern ring, similar to Asscherhalo_lover's, but with pink and white (instead of yellow) melee diamonds and milgrain border
5) Bite the bullet and ask Leon to make it!!