springerspaniel
Brilliant_Rock
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GM girls! Happy terrific Thursday!
@mrs-b bucketloads of healing vibes continuing your way...we got ice cream yesterday in honor of you and your recuperation. Hoping each day is getting a bit better and you are seeing the light at the end of that proverbial tunnel my sweet friend
Good morning! This is a review for Austina!
@Austina I TRIED to take good photos of my new lab studs. I probably took dozens. I truly stink at it..I’m wearing an aqua pj top so all the diamonds including my ACA picked up the blue. I‘m also wearing a sweatshirt zip up on top so they also picked up gray. I added my ACA which is an F so you can see it’s not the true color of the photo..The lab studs are very white..no blue nuance..They are very sparkly. I’m so use to my 3.04ctw studs that their smallness was surprising..but that is what I really wanted. I have the same size Tiffany pendant which I love..I have a mind clean thing with lab diamonds for rings but not with studs..I truly wish I didn’t..If I had to do it all over again I wouldn’t have purchased my 3 carat mined studs. I would have been happy with lab for them. My mined ones are VVS2s G color so you can imagine the cost. For me..that’s a lot to spend on for something I can’t look down at like a ring..The lab studs are D color. I don’t see any difference between their color and my F ACA. They are very sparkly but the thought that came to mind was maybe it’s because the ACA is cut so well that it appears like a lab D? I have no idea but I don’t notice a difference in the color…Thank you @LLJsmom for making the suggestion to get the D color. So….My review is that they are gorgeous..I’m very happy with them. This will be my last lab diamond purchase but it was another good one!
One thing I wanted to mention..At the size I purchased..1.5 ctw..it’s a waste to get a custom crown setting. I paid $900 for David to make me custom settings. At their small size I can’t even tell they are crown settings when they are on my ear..I could have saved a bunch just getting a stock setting. One day I may reset my mined studs into a crown setting. I would be able to appreciate it more at that size.
Bottom line is…that they are beautiful…I‘m very happy I went with lab diamonds for these earrings.
Congratulations @MamaBee!! They look beautiful. Hope you get lots of use from it.
Hello lovelies
Thanks for the review @MamaBee, I’m glad you’re happy with them. I’d just go for stock martini settings, but I’m not in any rush, we’ve got too much going on ATM and money flying out left, right and centre!
We decided that we’d use the leftover crushed limestone on the front flower beds, so have wheel barrowed tons of stone today. We’re both aching everywhere and have just had a nice soak. Hopefully, we can finish it off tomorrow as they’re coming on Monday to lay the turf, and are replacing lots of it at the front where all the materials have been dumped.
The guys were here this morning, finishing the clearing of the drip field, and another this afternoon, finalising all the new irrigation.
I just made a chicken (pot) pie for dinner, and then I think we’ll collapse in to bed and watch a film.
Hope all the lovely NIRDIs are having a good weekend.