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Thank you @diamondseeker2006 I knew you would appreciate it. I know. It is the weirdest thing. But it is sparkly white gold. It totally looks like rose gold in the pic.@LLJsmom Oh, I LOVE it!!!! So beautiful and how wonderful to find a good pre-loved one! The picture with it in the box looks like white gold (and you said it was wg), but then in the picture when you are wearing it, it looks rose gold!
I kind of have a dilemma. Alhambra is my favorite branded jewelry collection, but I am not sure I want all my jewelry to be the same. Sure, I'd like to have the complete collection! But not only would that be out of the question financially, but it would also be kind of repetitive. I saw a bracelet I liked today by a high end designer that is not one of the branded pieces we talk about here on this thread. I thought how pretty it was and it was in line with the cost of Alhambra. But one has to think that over time, Alhambra is going to win in terms of value. On the other hand, no one around me is going to recognize the brand of anything I wear. So beauty and enduring design almost always needs to be the deciding factor. I love collecting jewelry but try to be so careful what I buy. I think I am kind of at a standstill right now not knowing what to buy next, because I really need absolutely nothing!!! But it's my hobby, and I wish I had some clear direction of what to collect!
OKay, here's another good example of a conflict for me. Elizabeth Locke designs substantial high end 19k gold jewelry. Here's a pendant I love and the comparable Alhambra piece. The EL would actually be higher due to the pendant not including a chain, and her chains will be more than the pendant unless I could find a non-branded one. I feel over the long haul the VCA might be worth more, but I am not sure I want ALL my non-diamond jewelry to be Alhambra! Thoughts?
@Miki Moto Thank you! I actually would probably stick with VCA for onyx. The stones that VCA no longer offers that I love (turquoise and lapis), I may buy elsewhere. I actually ordered a pair of Elizabeth Locke 19k gold and turquoise earrings yesterday, since they don't make Alhambra in turquoise anymore. Plus there is a shortage of it, so I figured I should buy while I can. VCA second hand turquoise is sky high, higher than the new pieces in other stones. I am not a fan of Bulgari because much of their line is very modern. I am pretty much into classic pieces and some antique style. EL is kind of Etruscan-Greek-Roman and I like that for something different and kind of neo-classical but still relatively traditional. Her jewelry is all 19k gold which is very rich in color and contrasts with the stone colors. But I wouldn't collect much; maybe just one other piece to wear with the turquoise earrings if decide to keep them. I like Mikimoto, too! I'd love to see your pieces but I think you'd have to post in the Pearl part of the forum.
To me platinum and diamonds are a neutral, so it works if I just want to wear earrings and a bracelet in yg.
I’m very glad you said this, ds! I’ve been debating a pendant in yellow gold but my daily wear rings and studs are platinum. I combed the mixed metal threads on here, but they all seemed to be focused on pictures mixing metals in a ring stack, not on having rings in one colour with, say, a pendant in a different colour metal. I (think) I’ve come to the conclusion that I could always add a stacking band in yellow gold to try and tie everything together if the difference bothered me. But it’s good to hear that others view platinum as a neutral mix too!
I love the Queen Bee pendant you posted too!
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Hi! If you love long strands also, I think pearls are great for the summer. They are the “white” to a fresh summer look.
I like to wear my diamond stud earrings and a long strand that swings with white jeans. It’s so summer chic to me. I keep thinking I will get the VCA MOP WG 20 motif, but everytime I am ready to do that, I find I like the look of a long pearl strand more. Which is why I have so many dang strands. Sigh. But I wear them all.
Just a thought... maybe check out some Mikimoto strands for the summer!
@diamondseeker2006 did you end up getting anything new and scrumptious?
@diamondseeker2006 Ugh!! Fabulous! I LOVE the turquoise. I have also hoarded some sleeping beauty that I haven’t set yet! Sleeping beauty turquoise is stunning! Congratulations. That is a beautiful set. Will you post some ear shots? Are they heavy and are you used to them?
I did! These are Elizabeth Locke 19k yellow gold earrings with turquoise with blue zircon accents. They have the same clip backs as VCA. The posts are not fixed, they fold down, and assuming I keep them, I'll have to have the posts fixed outward because it's a little hard to get them on as they are now. But they are gorgeous and the turquoise is Sleeping Beauty and high quality. Sorry my picture doesn't do them justice! They are large similar to Magic Alhambra size earrings.
As I was walking away from brunch I saw a woman wearing a carnelian single motif vintage pendant. Weird!! I seldom ever see them and today two within an hour. If you add mine, that is three is the same restaurant.I just saw a single motif YG MOP vintage pendant. I was wearing my diamond pendant. Forget waiting.
I went to an awkward group lunch once where the girl that sat next to me, whom I met for the first time, wore the same carnelian single motif pendant as me. Neither of us made a comment about it.As I was walking away from brunch I saw a woman wearing a carnelian single motif vintage pendant. Weird!! I seldom ever see them and today two within an hour. If you add mine, that is three is the same restaurant.
Just heard news about the 50th anniversary pieces. Gray MOP will be included and a new stone, rock crystal is being introduced. .