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Too many to count, I started collecting back in 1988. I have loads of boxes of lose gems in every shape and color
EVERYBODY is struggling now, @MMtwo. Every single person. My husband currently has a blocked, runny nose. It looks for all the world like a cold. But to err on the side of caution - we're now living on different levels of our house. I haven't seen him in 2 days.
DO NOT feel badly for feeling badly! This situation is extraordinary and sucks the big one.
Hugs to you, my friend!
Also let me just say something; I have no excuse to NOT set something. I have 7 settings. Yes, 7. I have enough stones to fit those but....
*shame* I have way too many. I’m like a magpie - can’t resist shiny things.
- a baby pink tourmaline that I want to make into a pendant
- two bluish green sapphires which are too dark and I’m not keen on
- a box of mixed size demantoid melee which I want made into a brooch (frog or lizard!)
- a pair of ruby cabochons which I keep meaning to set into earrings but can’t decide on a design
- a lot of brown and orange spess garnet cabs which I want to set with citrine into earrings and ring (or maybe bracelet... see I just can’t make up my mind on anything!) and some spess melee
- a set of three Mexican fire opals, which are a butter yellow
- a few tiny greenish blue tourmaline asschers
- a bunch of leftover emerald cabs from my bracelet project (at the bench) for matching earrings / ring
- a couple of larger but poorer quality emerald cabs which I want to make into a stick pin brooch with some old fashioned / Art Deco style diamond setting
- a box of 26 unheated multicolour Ceylon sapphires between 3 and 1ct each for my sapphire bracelet project
- two more sapphires in the post from Sri Lanka (a 2ct pink pear and a 3.5ct violet oval) which might join my bracelet box or which might be destined for other things depending on how I feel when I get them.
- a box of bixbite melee which I want to set with another rare stone - but unclear what yet.
I think I have some sort of problem... or I might need to open a jewellery shop.
Lack of interest, @Arcadian? The Covid blahs?
I wish I could blame covid...lol I've had the settings for literally years. Sometimes I forget they even exist, then I go into the safe for something and they're in front of me.
Part of it is that I wear so little now that I kinda don't feel the itch or need especially when I have so much. I could just sell them but frankly I hated selling stuff. I'd do it if I HAD to, but I don't and, even though I don't wear them as much as I once did I loved all my pieces.
I think I'm waiting to get my groove back, seeing what the next year brings.
I can completely relate to this. Since being unwell, I just don't care much about acquiring sparklies, y'know? And with Covid...well...who's going anywhere anyway? Unlike you, tho, beautiful tho I think they are, I will probably continue to de-stash. Possibly quite a bit. We'll see.