Cehrabehra
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... and I need to confess. There is no where else I can do it but here. You guys will understand.
So a good friend of mine told me yesterday about this magnificent necklace that her husband brought her from pakistan. Said it was very formal and unlike any jewelry she''d ever owned and even HE said that this one goes into the safe when she isn''t wearing it. She talked about all of the 22k gold and filigree and the diamonds and brown zircon beads cut like disco balls. Today at lunch she brought it to surprise me and show me this amazing thing. She whispered that it was in her car because she didn''t want to say it out loud because it was so valuable and it wasn''t insured yet.
So after lunch we go to her car and I don''t know what I was expecting but it wasn''t that. What I saw was well polished little brown beads that were dull inside strung on pearl string with little gold beadcap things that cupped some of them here and there with thin gold wire wrapped around the ends to hold the stock findings on (and they didn''t look 22k to me - the wire did but the clasp did not). At the center of this too-long string of beads was a pendant. A pendant that at first glance was the best part of it - had a nice 8x6 brown zircon with a halo of about 2 pointers (no rainbows in the sun). The bale on the pendant was also looking like 14k and totally did not go with the rest of it - it was too large and too... just a different style. On closer inspection I saw that the pendant setting was cheaply done with a little circle built into the setting holding it to the bale and the circle was not even fully clamped closed.
I had to tell her it was beautiful. But I insisted yes - she could wear it with jeans and didn''t need to save it for the one special event a year she planned to. ::sigh:: I feel guilty. I don''t know what he spent but I''m pretty sure that unless that center brown zircon is worth a thousand dollars he way over paid. I don''t know how much he paid but to suggest it get put into the safe? Really?
So a good friend of mine told me yesterday about this magnificent necklace that her husband brought her from pakistan. Said it was very formal and unlike any jewelry she''d ever owned and even HE said that this one goes into the safe when she isn''t wearing it. She talked about all of the 22k gold and filigree and the diamonds and brown zircon beads cut like disco balls. Today at lunch she brought it to surprise me and show me this amazing thing. She whispered that it was in her car because she didn''t want to say it out loud because it was so valuable and it wasn''t insured yet.
So after lunch we go to her car and I don''t know what I was expecting but it wasn''t that. What I saw was well polished little brown beads that were dull inside strung on pearl string with little gold beadcap things that cupped some of them here and there with thin gold wire wrapped around the ends to hold the stock findings on (and they didn''t look 22k to me - the wire did but the clasp did not). At the center of this too-long string of beads was a pendant. A pendant that at first glance was the best part of it - had a nice 8x6 brown zircon with a halo of about 2 pointers (no rainbows in the sun). The bale on the pendant was also looking like 14k and totally did not go with the rest of it - it was too large and too... just a different style. On closer inspection I saw that the pendant setting was cheaply done with a little circle built into the setting holding it to the bale and the circle was not even fully clamped closed.
I had to tell her it was beautiful. But I insisted yes - she could wear it with jeans and didn''t need to save it for the one special event a year she planned to. ::sigh:: I feel guilty. I don''t know what he spent but I''m pretty sure that unless that center brown zircon is worth a thousand dollars he way over paid. I don''t know how much he paid but to suggest it get put into the safe? Really?
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