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Warning: gargantuanly long post. sorry!
So two of these are ones I've been meaning to post for almost all year - my mom's antique wedding ring that we got repaired by Sergio's Jewelry in Dallas after a BILLION Dallas jewelers refused to do it, an antique ring I bought on the ebays months ago that looked awfully awkward when I got it but which Sergio's restored to awesomeness (I know I sound like an advertisement), and then a half-carat OEC solitaire that I bought from Ruby Lane...that is currently at Sergio's for resizing. (And we are having them make a custom ring for my mother soon, so we will see how that goes. I will be posting the results, don't worry, with many pictures.)
My mom's ring:
It was my great-grandmother's wedding ring before it was my mother's. It has itty bitty OECs, and because they've been worn since 1910 pretty much daily (the setting is newer though), they are chipped all to heck. It was really, really hard for me to get any pictures that captured the OEC faceting and I still only kind of managed it. I haven't yet mastered the art of photographing diamonds way up close (I also am doing the "hold the loupe up to your iphone" photography so that could be a large part of it).
In this next picture, you can see on the left side some of where the end prong was totally melted into a blob by the original jeweler who was trying to re-tip the prongs (or whatever he was trying to do). It could have been fixed but it would have had to be cut out and replaced (obviously) and my mom wanted to keep as much of the original setting intact as she could. The YG part below it was completely gone when we wrested it away from the original jeweler and was replaced - you can see that it's thicker than the other parts in these pictures but it's not at all noticeable in person.
My little five-stone:
I bought this on ebay for a good price. I didn't save the pictures from the listing, but it was one of those where I was somewhat skeptical, but had seen a lot of these rings going for higher prices and really wanted one, so I bought it. I had to have almost all the prongs redone, but even with that and resizing it was still a totally reasonable price. I LOOOOVE the little circley bits on the side. These stones are also OECs and they really do sparkle differently than the RB melee in my engagement ring!
My new solitaire:
This is a 5mm OEC (the seller said 5.1-5.2, but I'm getting right around 5mm on my calipers but I know they are sometimes less accurate) in a 14k yg solitaire. Obviously. I was looking for a ring that wasn't quite so in your face as my engagement ring that I could wear when I needed to be more subtle, and also that didn't have pave so I could put sunscreen over it when I go outside places (baseball games!) without making it more of a pain than it's worth to clean (cleaning my e-ring if it is sunscreened over = a nightmare). It was sold to me as E-F color, my jeweler said just judging in the setting he thought it was G-H and should, in his opinion, really be in a white metal head because the yellow is making it look more yellow than it actually is. I thought it might have been I-J color when I was looking at the seller's pictures so whatever, you know. It's white enough and wasn't overpriced. I like the yellow gold though and will be keeping it that way for at least a while. My pictures all make it look darker and dingier than it appears in person, so I'm going to make my fiance get out his forreals camera and try to photograph it once I get it back from resizing.
Getting this ring was kind of a trial as shipping labels had been accidentally swapped between my package and someone else's, and so when I excitedly went to open my package... the ring inside was not what I had ordered at all. So it has taken its sweet little time getting to me but it is here now! I am glad it is here though as I needed a bling pick-me up because my car was totaled and I was sad about it. I wasn't hurt at all, my car was just so old that basically any damage would have totaled it, and some guy who doesn't know about lanes sideswiped it and jacked up the whole passenger side. It was my first car and I've driven it for a decade so it's a bummer, even though I was planning on getting a new one at the end of this year anyway. Anyway, bling.
Is it totally weird that whenever I look at this on my finger I go, "Wow, it's SO BIG!"?
I like the squatty setting!
Either I don't know how to take good pictures of diamond faceting or this diamond is too small. I tried, guys. It's tough because when I jam my iphone in its face it gets dark in the middle. I need something with an actual close-up optical zoom so I could be like six or so inches away and take a good pic, because it wasn't going dark from that distance.
And you know I have to take pictures of all my jewelry with my engagement ring.
If you scrolled through all that, you get Pirate Rabbit as a reward:
So two of these are ones I've been meaning to post for almost all year - my mom's antique wedding ring that we got repaired by Sergio's Jewelry in Dallas after a BILLION Dallas jewelers refused to do it, an antique ring I bought on the ebays months ago that looked awfully awkward when I got it but which Sergio's restored to awesomeness (I know I sound like an advertisement), and then a half-carat OEC solitaire that I bought from Ruby Lane...that is currently at Sergio's for resizing. (And we are having them make a custom ring for my mother soon, so we will see how that goes. I will be posting the results, don't worry, with many pictures.)
My mom's ring:
It was my great-grandmother's wedding ring before it was my mother's. It has itty bitty OECs, and because they've been worn since 1910 pretty much daily (the setting is newer though), they are chipped all to heck. It was really, really hard for me to get any pictures that captured the OEC faceting and I still only kind of managed it. I haven't yet mastered the art of photographing diamonds way up close (I also am doing the "hold the loupe up to your iphone" photography so that could be a large part of it).
In this next picture, you can see on the left side some of where the end prong was totally melted into a blob by the original jeweler who was trying to re-tip the prongs (or whatever he was trying to do). It could have been fixed but it would have had to be cut out and replaced (obviously) and my mom wanted to keep as much of the original setting intact as she could. The YG part below it was completely gone when we wrested it away from the original jeweler and was replaced - you can see that it's thicker than the other parts in these pictures but it's not at all noticeable in person.
My little five-stone:
I bought this on ebay for a good price. I didn't save the pictures from the listing, but it was one of those where I was somewhat skeptical, but had seen a lot of these rings going for higher prices and really wanted one, so I bought it. I had to have almost all the prongs redone, but even with that and resizing it was still a totally reasonable price. I LOOOOVE the little circley bits on the side. These stones are also OECs and they really do sparkle differently than the RB melee in my engagement ring!
My new solitaire:
This is a 5mm OEC (the seller said 5.1-5.2, but I'm getting right around 5mm on my calipers but I know they are sometimes less accurate) in a 14k yg solitaire. Obviously. I was looking for a ring that wasn't quite so in your face as my engagement ring that I could wear when I needed to be more subtle, and also that didn't have pave so I could put sunscreen over it when I go outside places (baseball games!) without making it more of a pain than it's worth to clean (cleaning my e-ring if it is sunscreened over = a nightmare). It was sold to me as E-F color, my jeweler said just judging in the setting he thought it was G-H and should, in his opinion, really be in a white metal head because the yellow is making it look more yellow than it actually is. I thought it might have been I-J color when I was looking at the seller's pictures so whatever, you know. It's white enough and wasn't overpriced. I like the yellow gold though and will be keeping it that way for at least a while. My pictures all make it look darker and dingier than it appears in person, so I'm going to make my fiance get out his forreals camera and try to photograph it once I get it back from resizing.
Getting this ring was kind of a trial as shipping labels had been accidentally swapped between my package and someone else's, and so when I excitedly went to open my package... the ring inside was not what I had ordered at all. So it has taken its sweet little time getting to me but it is here now! I am glad it is here though as I needed a bling pick-me up because my car was totaled and I was sad about it. I wasn't hurt at all, my car was just so old that basically any damage would have totaled it, and some guy who doesn't know about lanes sideswiped it and jacked up the whole passenger side. It was my first car and I've driven it for a decade so it's a bummer, even though I was planning on getting a new one at the end of this year anyway. Anyway, bling.
Is it totally weird that whenever I look at this on my finger I go, "Wow, it's SO BIG!"?
I like the squatty setting!
Either I don't know how to take good pictures of diamond faceting or this diamond is too small. I tried, guys. It's tough because when I jam my iphone in its face it gets dark in the middle. I need something with an actual close-up optical zoom so I could be like six or so inches away and take a good pic, because it wasn't going dark from that distance.
And you know I have to take pictures of all my jewelry with my engagement ring.
If you scrolled through all that, you get Pirate Rabbit as a reward:
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