InToTheMystic
Shiny_Rock
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- Jan 18, 2013
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Hi all,
After a visit to a gem show on the weekend, I received a lovely birthday present from my fiance of two sweet little Tsavorites that I'd like to have made in to earrings. (I also picked up a charming emerald cluster ring, but I'll save that one for a different post).
They aren't big, being approximately 7mm x 5mm, with a 3.5mm depth - I don't have the exact carat weight, but I'm guessing around 0.8 to 0.9 each? Happy to stand corrected on that one. They have a moderately large tilt window which you can certainly see in the pic below, but from front on it is barely noticeable in person (except in close-up photos, for some irritating reason). They never lose the green colour even when held up to the light, but the difference in colour gradation is slightly noticeable. Their small size will mean that you can't really tell they're windowed unless you have your face pressed up against my earlobe, which would be a whole other awkward conversation entirely.
The colour is a rich medium-dark kelly green, but with no meaningful blue in it as far as I can tell. They don't have those incredible Aurora Borealis-style flashes of green lightning that you see in some tsavs, but they are very green, and very sparkly, and I think they are just lovely and that I need to stop constantly pulling them out of the safe and twinkling them in the sunlight. I am also more than happy to overlook their faults considering we paid waaaaay under market price - this gives me a bit more play room for the settings.
So...on to the earring planning!
I have quite small earlobes that are quite close to my head, and would like to avoid post style earrings as they have a tendency to scratch the wiggins out of the patch of skin behind my ear.
I don't want to make these incredibly fancy diamond encrusted masterpieces, because then I will simply never get to wear them. I would also like them reasonably close to the ear rather than an elongated drop. I already have a jade and emerald drop set, and a beautiful marquisite and garnet briolette long dangle set, that I regrettably barely wear as they are just too fancy.
I also have dark hair at the moment so they will probably need 'something' around them, to make them stand out a bit. I am willing to entertain the introduction of other stones, as long as it stays subtle and elegant. I can't do yellow gold (it makes me look jaundiced), so I'm realistically looking at either white gold or argentium silver.
I quite like this style below, but I am concerned that it would make the window issues more pronounced.
I would love the opinions of the experts here on how to show off these little green darlings to best effect. Any ideas?
After a visit to a gem show on the weekend, I received a lovely birthday present from my fiance of two sweet little Tsavorites that I'd like to have made in to earrings. (I also picked up a charming emerald cluster ring, but I'll save that one for a different post).
They aren't big, being approximately 7mm x 5mm, with a 3.5mm depth - I don't have the exact carat weight, but I'm guessing around 0.8 to 0.9 each? Happy to stand corrected on that one. They have a moderately large tilt window which you can certainly see in the pic below, but from front on it is barely noticeable in person (except in close-up photos, for some irritating reason). They never lose the green colour even when held up to the light, but the difference in colour gradation is slightly noticeable. Their small size will mean that you can't really tell they're windowed unless you have your face pressed up against my earlobe, which would be a whole other awkward conversation entirely.
The colour is a rich medium-dark kelly green, but with no meaningful blue in it as far as I can tell. They don't have those incredible Aurora Borealis-style flashes of green lightning that you see in some tsavs, but they are very green, and very sparkly, and I think they are just lovely and that I need to stop constantly pulling them out of the safe and twinkling them in the sunlight. I am also more than happy to overlook their faults considering we paid waaaaay under market price - this gives me a bit more play room for the settings.
So...on to the earring planning!
I have quite small earlobes that are quite close to my head, and would like to avoid post style earrings as they have a tendency to scratch the wiggins out of the patch of skin behind my ear.
I don't want to make these incredibly fancy diamond encrusted masterpieces, because then I will simply never get to wear them. I would also like them reasonably close to the ear rather than an elongated drop. I already have a jade and emerald drop set, and a beautiful marquisite and garnet briolette long dangle set, that I regrettably barely wear as they are just too fancy.
I also have dark hair at the moment so they will probably need 'something' around them, to make them stand out a bit. I am willing to entertain the introduction of other stones, as long as it stays subtle and elegant. I can't do yellow gold (it makes me look jaundiced), so I'm realistically looking at either white gold or argentium silver.
I quite like this style below, but I am concerned that it would make the window issues more pronounced.
I would love the opinions of the experts here on how to show off these little green darlings to best effect. Any ideas?
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