I have goodies!

[Brown.Eyed.Girl]

So I''ve gotten three new stones lately: a small blue-purple sapphire from Finewater, a blue-green tourmaline from Finewater and a huge white tourmaline from Barry. Here they are, plus some of my other stones making a guest appearance as I play with my new daylight lamp

Sapphire

 

[Brown.Eyed.Girl]

Oops. here we go

 

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This actually is pretty purple inside and turns this awesome bright blue outside

 

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My blue-green tourmaline. I asked Gary to cut this for me after seeing the blue-green pair on his members list last time around.

 

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With my other new gems

 

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Big white tourmaline cut by Barry.

 

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It''s a little darker indoors. I really need to take this outside because it was very sparkly and pretty white under my lamp - too bad it''s like hurricaning outside

 

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Terrible pic but just to give you an idea of size

The stone is 2.5 ct., 8.5 mm - finger size is 3.5

 

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My two blue-green tourmalines together, hanging out

 

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My new stones with my Dan Stair grossular garnet. The blue-green tourm and the garnet are going into a set of stackers soon

 

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My Barry Malaya and my Dan grossular. The Malaya does this cool weird color shift to peach by the window, but under my daylight lamp, it goes golden - so pretty!

 

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My Barry green tourmaline

 

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My Jeff White morganite. I think this was the second colored stone I ever bought!

 

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My Jeff White pink tourm

 

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My blue-green tourm, Malaya and grossular

 

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And finally, one more of my new stones. Stay tuned - I have one more incoming

 

[FrekeChild]

Yay! What beautiful stones you have my dear!!!! I''ve been WAITING FOREVER to see that sapphire. You''ve been holding out on me.

 

[FrekeChild]

And I think we need them all lined up. How many do you have now?

 

[Brown.Eyed.Girl]

Date: 3/8/2009 4:35:05 AM
Author: FrekeChild
Yay! What beautiful stones you have my dear!!!! I've been WAITING FOREVER to see that sapphire. You've been holding out on me.

Hehe. Sorry about the wait - I wanted to do a big photoshoot. I still have that last stone coming in but I couldn't wait

I have a bunch of them lined up but I didn't think they came out that well. I'll post one of the ones that came out the best. Except it doesn't have my white tourmaline in it - I took those pics last night and the tourm came today. I need to tell Barry I love my "torment" stone!

And thank you dear!!

 

[Brown.Eyed.Girl]

Date: 3/8/2009 4:45:27 AM
Author: SanDiegoLady
Oh wow.. your collection is fantastic!!!! I am so dying for a Jeff White sapphire.. someday.. someday!

Thank you SDLady! So am I! Cornflower blue in an asscher....sigh. Someday!

 

[Brown.Eyed.Girl]

Here they are, all lined up, minus the new tourmaline and the new stone incoming. So that makes 11 total loose? Plus 4 others that are already set.

 

[FrekeChild]

You are SO ahead of me girly. I have ONE stone set. Hopefully one other one will get set SOON!!!!

BTW, I love all of your stones.

 

[Brown.Eyed.Girl]

Date: 3/8/2009 5:48:36 AM
Author: FrekeChild
You are SO ahead of me girly. I have ONE stone set. Hopefully one other one will get set SOON!!!!

lol well you''re working on it! Stackers are a great way to set a bunch at once

 

[knitwit]

What a line up! I am swooning over that Morganite Asscher...

 

[Brown.Eyed.Girl]

Date: 3/8/2009 7:04:19 AM
Author: knitwit
What a line up! I am swooning over that Morganite Asscher...

Thank you! I love the ring in your avatar, btw!

 

[knitwit]

Thanks! I love my Aqua...Gene did it.

 

[bling addict]

you really have the most beautiful collection BEG!!!

GORGEOUS! All of them!

 

[Brown.Eyed.Girl]

Date: 3/8/2009 7:59:15 AM
Author: bling addict
you really have the most beautiful collection BEG!!!

GORGEOUS! All of them!

Thank you BA! You''re so sweet!