What would you buy?

[Jax172]

With $1,500 to spend?

 

[strmrdr]

plane ticket to go see the love of my life :}

 

[valeria101]

Interesting Q! Did you see my "Diamond for Christmas" post?

 

[Mara]

Hmmm because I am in 'house mode'...probably furniture for our new house.

 

[MichelleCarmen]

Well, funny enough this is EXACTLY how much money I'm working to stash away for myself for my next birthday. My goal is .8 carat total weight diamond earrings (.4 each ear). When the money is finally saved up, who knows if I'll go through and buy my dream h&A earrings or if I'll just keep saving my money up instead.

What would you buy Jaxie?

Michelle

 

[Jax172]

All fabulous ideas.

But since my love is here and am not desiring any furniture....any ideas in the jewelry category?

 

[Jax172]

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On 12/25/2003 10:52:54 PM MichelleCarmen wrote:

Well, funny enough this is EXACTLY how much money I'm working to stash away for myself for my next birthday. My goal is .8 carat total weight diamond earrings (.4 each ear). When the money is finally saved up, who knows if I'll go through and buy my dream h&A earrings or if I'll just keep saving my money up instead.

What would you buy Jaxie?

Michelle----------------

Well I suppose that is what I am trying to figure out. So suggestions are helpful!

I have earrings already, but they are smaller 0.50ctw. Hmmm....maybe bigger earrings.

Keep those ideas rolling!

 

[Mara]

Okay since we are talking jewelry....

I already have 1ctw diamond studs and my e-ring...if I didn't have my pendant, that would be my first priority. I was already planning on getting one next year--something like a .45c ACA in a thin bezel. But since I have my Regent pendant, my top priority right now is saving for a 10 stone 1ctw ring for my right hand...I tried one on recently and fell in love. So sparkly and low profile, really classy with the small stones. I would have it built with ACA melee. But since it would probably be more like $2k rather than $1500...maybe I'd have to settle for a 7 stone

Barring that...a diamond bracelet would be fun, since my current was just a maul purchase and I could have some fun building a link diamond (e.g. a bar of metal then a diamond, bar of metal, then diamond) bracelet with something like ACA melee stones (.05 each, 20 of them?). Doing something like this would probably be around $1500 to build...depending on metal, and assuming there is a pre-existing non-custom bracelet setting.




Those are my ideas

 

[valeria101]

What is you favorite color, Jax?

 

[MichelleCarmen]

Jax - my current earrings are also .5 total weight and if you're not wanting to upgrade earrings, I'd go for a pendant. I just put a .38 diamond into a pendant and it and my earrings make an elegant and fun everyday set. For 1500, you could easily get a great H&A diamond that compliments your earrings.

Michelle

 

[Griffin]

Hoping I don't start a major commotion, but;

For a $1500 budget you can wind up with a fairly generic mounting and small or mediocre stones, OR invest in an exceptional or even custom mounting and a really nice Charles and Colvard synthetic or Chatham Emerald. Even a nice natural colored stone fits in that budget.
Sorry Diamond people....

 

[phoenixgirl]

I'd get these set as studs.