Let's play a game... rainbow gems.

[seaurchin]

Here's my 10mm lab sapphire from Finewater Gems. It's blue-green so I guess it counts for blue. Purple is up next!

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

Lisianthus my favourite flower that gary would never know

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

You have this in the States ?
its delicouse



One's mother would give it to one warm in the winter or if one was sick

Nowdays they say its bad for the teeth but ive always drink a tonn of fluoridated tap water so no problem here
Anyway love blackcurrent as a flavour

 

[Crimson]

Here's some orange, a detail of orange & orange/pink sapphires in matrix with pseudomorphs of limonite after pyrite from Luc Yen, Vietnam:


It matches the colours in @Daisys and Diamonds tulip quite well I think.

Fabulous, @Nick_G I can almost feel the textures.

That is so pretty
Bur I must be hungry
it looks like fruit cake
i love dried apricots

Like @Daisys and Diamonds, it made me think of food. it looked like granola to me!

 

[Crimson]

You have this in the States ?
its delicouse



One's mother would give it to one warm in the winter or if one was sick

Nowdays they say its bad for the teeth but ive always drink a tonn of fluoridated tap water so no problem here
Anyway love blackcurrent as a flavou

@Daisys and Diamonds I enjoyed Ribena both hot and cold, and later on, Ribena pastilles. I don’t remember having any Ribena when I lived in the US but it is popular in Singapore.
Do you remember this ruckus? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/mar/27/schoolsworldwide.foodanddrink?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

@Daisys and Diamonds I enjoyed Ribena both hot and cold, and later on, Ribena pastilles. I don’t remember having any Ribena when I lived in the US but it is popular in Singapore.
Do you remember this ruckus? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/mar/27/schoolsworldwide.foodanddrink?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Yes
that was huge news here
i don't like fizzy so as an adult i would often buy that one
i think the fizzy version is even worse
mum also used to make a home made one version boiling up blackcurrents and no doubt lots of sugar

But back then sugar wasn't added to everything we ate so it probably want so bad in context especially because kids all walked or rode their bikes to school back then

 

[voce]

Oh that is gorgouse
Do you have a hand shot ?

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

I just love it
with the colours its like an art deco building !

 

[oncrutchesrightnow]

Are we still on purple? Amethysts.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

Are we still on purple? Amethysts.

That is lovelly
what are the other stones ?
Would love a neck shot

 

[seaurchin]

Pink lab sapphire and diamonds. (Finewater Gems, David Klass). Red is up next!

 

[oncrutchesrightnow]

That is lovelly
what are the other stones ?
Would love a neck shot

One of my declutteresets.

The stones are inexpensive but sentimental. Amethysts are from a heart pendant my mom gave me. Rubies are from a heart pendant my grandma owned. Peridots are from a silver ring I got at a flea market. Sphene I bought myself. All set in 14k gold.

 

[Autumn in New England]

@Daisys and Diamonds I love that you live out loud, and selected all of those bright colors for your home. Mine is white antique brick, so I can't do much with it. Boring!

We do not have that black currant juice in the states, and what a shame! It looks delish. I love pomegranate juice, which also stains the teeth... but it's soooo yummers.

@voce I'm not sure we'd seen yellow beryl yet? But we're 33 pages in, so who knows at this point! In any event, your ring is awesome!! It looks like a piece of architecture. Are those emeralds and aquas in there too? You kept it in the family!!

How cute are those bee earrings, @AudreyC!! Man, you have the best collection of jadeite. It's like green jello.

That thing must light up a room, @seaurchin! The cut and color are TDF. It's a little piece of the Carribean on your hand.

@oncrutchesrightnow What a lovely (and meaningful) pendant! I am a committed lover of amethyst, and don't care what anyone else says. It may be quite common, but it's still one of the most beautiful, true purple gems (along with sapphire, IMO). I think it gets a bad rap because it's heated to create citrine and prasiolite. But most amethyst is untreated! And it's a reasonably durable gem with great clarity. As I said, still a fan! It used to be valued above all by royalty!! As I understand it, purple dye was very difficult and expensive to create back in the day, so amethyst was a natural way to "wear" purple.

And on that note, RED is up!

 

[Autumn in New England]

I just love it
with the colours its like an art deco building !

I thought the exact same thing!!

That is so pretty
Bur I must be hungry
it looks like fruit cake
i love dried apricots

OMG, yes! We must be long-lost foodie sisters.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

I thought the exact same thing!!



OMG, yes! We must be long-lost foodie sisters.

We have a couple of cities/ towns in NZ who really embrace art deco
the Hawkes bay got totalled in an earthquake in 193q and Naiper and Hastings were rebuilt in art deco and today they really celebrate that

Meanwhile over on the North island's west coast when we were hard out house hunting 5 years ago we found this art deco house on Pitt street - it was marketed as promise/ potential on Pitt or something similar- it still has the most beautiful art deco detailing of any art deco house ive seen in Wanganui - we have a really surprising amount of Art deco houses in anoungst the late Victorian villas & cute little English kitset railway cottages, the Edwardian Californian bungalows (and of course the mid century state houses like ours)
Anyway the real estate pictures (fish eye should be illegal) looked amazing
We went as far as ordering an art deco paint chart and we were planning a weekend in the Hawkes bay to get inspiration
unlike Naiper no one paints them here in all the beautiful art deco colours
Anyway finally drove up from Wellington for a viewing

What a dump
And it was small and poky
We still refer to it as heartbreak on Pitt

anyway that was our brief immersion in art deco
But it gave me an appreciation i didn't have previously of a whole era - i used to just look at those houses and think the roof probably leaks

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

@Daisys and Diamonds I love that you live out loud, and selected all of those bright colors for your home. Mine is white antique brick, so I can't do much with it. Boring!

We do not have that black currant juice in the states, and what a shame! It looks delish. I love pomegranate juice, which also stains the teeth... but it's soooo yummers.

@voce I'm not sure we'd seen yellow beryl yet? But we're 33 pages in, so who knows at this point! In any event, your ring is awesome!! It looks like a piece of architecture. Are those emeralds and aquas in there too? You kept it in the family!!

How cute are those bee earrings, @AudreyC!! Man, you have the best collection of jadeite. It's like green jello.

That thing must light up a room, @seaurchin! The cut and color are TDF. It's a little piece of the Carribean on your hand.

@oncrutchesrightnow What a lovely (and meaningful) pendant! I am a committed lover of amethyst, and don't care what anyone else says. It may be quite common, but it's still one of the most beautiful, true purple gems (along with sapphire, IMO). I think it gets a bad rap because it's heated to create citrine and prasiolite. But most amethyst is untreated! And it's a reasonably durable gem with great clarity. As I said, still a fan! It used to be valued above all by royalty!! As I understand it, purple dye was very difficult and expensive to create back in the day, so amethyst was a natural way to "wear" purple.

And on that note, RED is up!

I completly agree about amethysts
Before it got common when they discovered plentiful sources it was regarded as a precious stone
the Swedish royal family have the most beautiful pieces but unfortunately the BRF seem to regard it as mourning jewlery (Queen Victoria has a lot to answer for) and they actuallu sold off their amethyst tiara - evidently HM said "we have more than enough tiaras"

Here is Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden
I get so mad down the mall
Even by mall standards the amethysts get all the cr*ppy cheap looking unimaginative and often downright ugly as sin settings
It deserves better

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

Anyway red you say

 

[margauxmines]

Can I play? Here's my entry for red!
(ORANGE is next!)

Red spinel in a YG fleur de lys pendant... my dad's birthday gift to me for my 25th last year!

 

[Autumn in New England]

I completly agree about amethysts
Before it got common when they discovered plentiful sources it was regarded as a precious stone
the Swedish royal family have the most beautiful pieces but unfortunately the BRF seem to regard it as mourning jewlery (Queen Victoria has a lot to answer for) and they actuallu sold off their amethyst tiara - evidently HM said "we have more than enough tiaras"

Here is Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden
I get so mad down the mall
Even by mall standards the amethysts get all the cr*ppy cheap looking unimaginative and often downright ugly as sin settings
It deserves better

That tiara is one of the most beautiful I've seen, my friend!

 

[Autumn in New England]

Can I play? Here's my entry for red!
(ORANGE is next!)

Red spinel in a YG fleur de lys pendant... my dad's birthday gift to me for my 25th last year!

You're always welcome on our little "porch!" Especially when you bring us beauties like that pendant!!

 

[Soseattle]

Can I play? Here's my entry for red!
(ORANGE is next!)

Red spinel in a YG fleur de lys pendant... my dad's birthday gift to me for my 25th last year!

So beautiful! It looks like a royal gem.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

So next up is coral - i mean orange

we know someone with something rather spectacular to show us in this colour range ........

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

What have you got @Autumn in New England ?

 

[Autumn in New England]

hee hee These are such beautiful examples of coral, @Daisys and Diamonds! I figured my new spinel might be better suited to pink, but one of her parents is orange, so...

YELLOW is up again!

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

hee hee These are such beautiful examples of coral, @Daisys and Diamonds! I figured my new spinel might be better suited to pink, but one of her parents is orange, so...

YELLOW is up again!

She is truly lovelly
and i just knew we needed a new player on the orange team

 

[Zack_sg]

Sharing some warm yellows

 

[Atwater]

Green (Tsavorite):


Next: blue.

 

[Atwater]

Blue: it is a blue-green tourmaline, but showing more blue here:


Next: purple.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

Sharing some warm yellows

Those are all so yummy looking

 

[VividRed]

Am I the only one waiting for this thread to hit 1000 posts?