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mizufae · 1 year

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abelia for the ask game!

Abelia - do you have a particular piece of jewelry you always wear or can’t part with?

First of all, I didn’t know what abelia was and it turns out they are those evergreen bushes in designed landscapes that get little star shaped flowers and I’m always like “what are those???” And now I know so hey, that’s something I’ve currently learned!

Anyway. I have a bunch of jewelry I would be really upset to lose, but nothing I always wear. I did go through phases where I wore the same pendant necklaces all the time even in the shower for a few years, only swapping them seasonally or for special occasions. I used to be a watch wearing person but once I succumbed to the ubiquity of cell phones and my old watch died I haven’t gotten a new one. When I think of my jewelry collection and try to pick the pieces I would be devastated not having anymore, there are only maybe a dozen, and most of them are heirlooms. My family is partially Jewish old money so we have been passing some things down since our mothers sewed gems into the lining of their fur coats on the boats to America before WWII. I don’t have any of those because my mom still has them but I have some things from my great grandma that I never wear and would never sell but if I lost them my ancestors would rise from the grave and harass me like I’m in Fiddler on the Roof.

I have a too-long string of beautiful Hawaiian black pearls that my aunt got when she lived in Kauai and were given to me after she died way too young. There’s the tiny gold heart shaped locket with a diamond chip on the front that my grandma gave me when I was only about three and I could put it on a chain that fits me but I don’t want to. There’s the elegant string of graduated petite pearls that my evil grandmother got me when I turned 30 and is probably the only time she gave me a gift that wasn’t snide in some way. I have a whole little pile of earrings from my older cousin who I was obsessed with as a little kid, they are all eighties-tacular, with colorful metal hearts and stars and moons with more smaller ones dangling from the larger ones, which I often wear to cons and parties and always get compliments on. My (non evil) grandma also left me her collection of cloisonné enamel pins, I have two gorgeous butterflies, a frog, a fish, a ship and an elephant in shades of green and cerulean and gold plate. I have her mother of pearl carved pendant that has delicate scenes of Chinese landscapes on each side. I have the pink Venetian glass circle my grandfather brought back from Italy for me, and Grandma’s jade bracelet made of cream, evergreen, and peach colored beads. There is the rainbow glass and silver bracelet my childhood best friend gave me as a birthday present after we moved away from each other that goes with literally every outfit I assemble. I think that’s all but two of the ones I would be devastated to lose.

The other two are the ones I thought of immediately when I read the question.

When I turned 21 my parents gave me a present. They knew I was going through a lot of complicated stuff and struggling and they know I’ve always hated diamonds and always had mixed feelings about gender, but in my family 21 is the age that typically girls are given a gift that is something that can become an heirloom. Like a really nice diamond necklace or a big fuck off cocktail ring or something to like, wear to a cotillion or whatever the fuck old timey people did, you know? My parents knew I was not about that life. They also knew that despite my coloring pointing to silver looking the “best” on me I’ve always preferred gold and copper and brass. So if they didn’t know me at all they would have given me like, a silver diamond tennis bracelet, and I was dreading it.

But my parents came to visit me at college and I was in their hotel room and my mom pulled out a jewelry case, and she said “I remembered how much you always liked my fire opal ring, and you’re really an adult now, and we trust you to take care of nice things, and you don’t wear rings, so we found this for you. If you don’t like it we can return it and get something else, okay? Or just money.” And in that box was a nice gold chain with an opal pendant. It’s simple, oval, about two inches tall and an inch across, with an incredible rainbow flash with fire orange at the top and a beautiful spectrum of blues and greens inside a creamy flecked stone. The setting is simple and modern, and it’s gold, and I’ve worn it to almost every wedding and formal special occasion ever since. It doesn’t catch on my clothes or hair, it’s just the right length, it feels so nice to hold. The clasp of the pendant clips open and closed so I can put it on different chains really easily or convert it to another piece of jewelry like a pin or earring very simply.

The thing about opals is that although I love them, they are fragile. You can’t get them wet or greasy, they are hard to clean, they can shatter and chip. My parents trusted me with something that was an embodiment of my personal and atypical taste, worth a truly significant amount of money, and something fragile, that I’ll have to care for in a particular way for the rest of my life. And they also gave it to me with no expectation of me accepting or even liking it, but trying their best. So it means a lot and if I ever have to board a boat for another country with valuables sewn into my clothing, it’s the first thing I’m sewing in.

The second one is a blue moonstone pendant in a silver setting I bought from a jewelry booth at my town’s summer festival when I was fifteen for like ten bucks. It’s what I would often wear for months at a time. It’s the birthstone of the boy I was in love with for years, but I loved him in the wrong way. It became kind of a talisman for me about, like, anhedonia. Anhedonia is the inability to feel pleasure and I’ve struggled with depression since I was eleven years old. I think that I bought the necklace not to express my obsession with the boy so much as to be able to hold on to something physical to remind myself that I’m capable of happy feelings. Because just being around him when he was happy, being able to share the things he liked or bring him something new he enjoyed, that made me so joyful. Like yes I also wanted to kiss his face off and live happily ever after but in retrospect what I really wanted was to always feel about life how I felt about life when I was around him. He couldn’t ever love me back the way I thought I wanted him to. If only we’d been able to see what was happening from a distance. We were best friends for a few years but too many of those were tainted by my unrequited feelings and his conflict between wanting to make me happy, hating himself, and being afraid of expressing what was wrong for fear of hurting everyone. So I still wear my simple blue stone necklace all the time because it’s like blue jeans and goes with all my clothes, but even at almost forty I will sometimes hold it, and think, we were two people going through almost the same thing, but I had someone who broke through my anhedonia, and he didn’t. We could have been such better friends. We could have helped each other so much more. I could have let go of my obsession and still loved his presence in my life, and he would have been free of the burden I unduly laid on his teenaged back. And maybe he would still be in my life. Maybe I would have been someone he could have reached out to. Never, ever, ever, give the key to your happiness to anyone but yourself. I bought that necklace because it was a pretty color with a little flash, and it reminded me of feeling happiness when I was surrounded by funnel cakes and fireworks and felt almost nothing. When I piled all those other symbols onto it, I heaped them onto someone who didn’t ask for them, without even talking about it, who could never have carried those symbols the way I wanted. It’s just a cheap stone on a simple chain, and I can love it, but I can’t expect anything more from it.

Anyway that got long. Here’s a picture of the cloisonné frog and butterflies!

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musashi · 5 years

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whaddya think spinel would be like in the pokeworld? what job and pokemon etc

god thank you

spinel’s a performer of some sort–if not a coordinator, then some kind of entertainer to the higher class. i’m honestly picturing pink diamond as kalosian royalty for the purpose of this, and possessing a diancie as an heirloom. her court all get carbink, that just seems logical.

spinel’s starter pokemon was a mime jr that she raised up & evolved. they are obviously spitting images of each other. she keeps her out of ball, nicknamed her ‘Toots,’ and the two of them regularly move in perfect sync even outside of the performance halls. it’s adorable.

inkay she gets a little later, and the two of them revel in playing pranks with one another & pink. i don’t really have an idea in my head of HOW pink leaves and how to translate that to the pokemon world, just that she does, likely to do something far lower like be a regular trainer taking the gym challenge. and maybe spinel sees her winning the league halfway across the globe, after years have gone by and the kingdom’s fallen to nothing and spinel’s the only one who’s believed pink would ever come back.

inkay’s representative of her actual gem, obv. maybe it sees the one who abandoned it and its trainer on tv and flips upside down to attack the box and evolves into malamar right then and there.

shuppet she finds when she tears away from the palace, intent to cross paths with pink again and destroy her in battle. a group of them swarm to her, and one of them is just too cute to let go. cubone she finds on the way, and resents for a long time because all it does is cry and cry and cry. those two are a slow burn, i think–marowak comes much later, the two of them really have to grow together.

idk about poipole. i have no ideas for poipole. it just seems right. i dont know at what point that ultra wormhole opens but they seem like a good fit.

i pick pokemon like how the anime does–not based on aesthetics usually, but based on the pokemon i think a character will encounter depending on their story. for spinel i also considered swoobat, luvdisc, & the hardest one of all to cut was flabebe–who find one flower they really like, and become devoted to holding onto it for life.

#wendy rambles #pokemon teams #patheticnyas #wendy answers #she starts out with a preference for fairies #but really likes poison types later on

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patriciarpeterson · 5 years

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Royal Engagement Rings Through the Ages

Nothing captures the hearts of the general public like a Royal Wedding. Despite the wavering popularity of the monarchy in this country we always, as a nation seem to enjoy the pomp and ceremony that these state occasions demand. The Engagement Ring is always at the centre of the media focus throughout the proceedings so we thought it would be interesting to see how styles have changed over the decades.

Duke and Duchess of Sussex – 2018. Diamond, Trilogy, 18ct Yellow Gold, Cleave and Company

Given to the Duchess by HRH Prince Harry, this stunning piece designed and created by Cleave and Company, comprises of three trilogy diamond stones, with a simple 18ct yellow gold band. A simple yet equally as stunning engagement ring, there is no surprise as to why this particular design has become a favourite of many.

Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Princess of Wales. 2011/1981

Today our modern day royal brides tend to opt for classic halo design engagement rings, often with an oval central semi-precious stone. Princess Diana’s (now belonging to the Duchess of Cambridge) sapphire/diamond engagement ring has been so well documented that few can forget the enormous 12 carat oval Ceylon sapphire which adorns the centre which was in some respects more fitting for a Hollywood film star.

Most royal engagement rings tend to be large but a little more understated than this. However you may be surprised to learn that this stone was in fact tiny compared to the Emerald famously given to Wallace Simpson by King Edward VIII in 1936. Presented just before the king abdicated, having reigned for only 11 months, the Emerald weighing a huge 19.22 carats was set in yellow gold and surrounded by diamonds and is one of the most lavish royal engagement rings to date.

Princess Eugenie of York. 2018

As you would expect, semi-precious stone choices are very traditional featuring, almost without exception, diamonds, rubies, sapphires or emeralds. A recent anomaly came in the form of a Padparadscha Sapphire which was chosen for Princess Eugenie of York this year by Jack Brooksbank, her husband to be. This rare pink/orange sapphire named after the Lotus Blossom, has unique colour changing properties and is one of the rarest gems on the planet particular when over 2 carats, which Princess Eugenie’s example most certainly is.

Duke and Duchess of Cornwall. 2005

With its unique art deco design, this engagement ring belonging to the Duchess of Cornwall is a unique, standout piece. A uniquely designed diamond complete with a platinum band, this beautiful piece can be traced back to the late Queen Mother, another exquisite family heirloom.

Queen Elizabeth II. 1947

One of the most beautiful examples belongs to Queen Elizabeth II and contains a stunning old cut, round diamond estimated to weigh around 3 carats. Not ostentatious for a Queen by today’s standards but classically elegant and timeless. The engagement ring was designed by Prince Philip with the help of jeweller Philip Antrobus and was one of the few royal engagement rings to be made from platinum.

Interestingly the Queen wears her engagement ring alongside her yellow, welsh gold wedding ring, following royal tradition and clearly has no qualms about mixing metals. Most modern brides want their wedding and engagement rings made from the same metal but royal protocol comes first.

Duke and Duchess of York. 1986

Presented to the Duschess of York on her engagement, this Burmese ruby is surrounded by diamonds in a traditional halo design and follows a familiar pattern by being set on an 18k yellow gold band.

Queen Mother 1923.

One other interesting variance from the norm belonged to the late Queen Mother, formerly Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon who gave up wearing her original sapphire/diamond engagement ring in her later years and instead opted for a huge pearl surrounded by diamonds. It is not clear why she did this, but it was a truly magnificent pearl ring which many speculated would be given it to Meghan Markle by Prince Harry…but that was not to be as we now know.

Queen Victoria. 1840

As you can see, Royal Engagement rings have varied enormously over the years with some of the oldest rings being the most unique. Take the engagement ring of Queen Victoria for example; it would be a strange choice today however a serpent at that time represented wisdom, loyalty and commitment which were very fitting for the occasion. The central stone was an Emerald which was Queen Victoria’s birthstone which was again quite common practice during Victorian times.

A fascinating jewellery journey through history I think you will agree, but which one is your favourite engagement ring?

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jewelryexchangedallas · 5 years

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Royal Engagement Rings Through the Ages

Duke and Duchess of Sussex – 2018. Diamond, Trilogy, 18ct Yellow Gold, Cleave and Company

Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Princess of Wales. 2011/1981

Princess Eugenie of York. 2018

Duke and Duchess of Cornwall. 2005

Queen Elizabeth II. 1947

Duke and Duchess of York. 1986

Presented to the Duschess of York on her engagement, this Burmese ruby is surrounded by diamonds in a traditional halo design and follows a familiar pattern by being set on an 18k yellow gold band.

Queen Mother 1923.

Queen Victoria. 1840

A fascinating jewellery journey through history I think you will agree, but which one is your favourite engagement ring?

Images – Source: Unknown

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ladyonly01-blog · 6 years

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Pearl Passionista: Dressed Up And Dressed [email protected]

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