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Snake Shish Kebab

Enufstuff — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:01:34 GMT

@Goodie2shoes@occasionalrain@Venezia@SportyShorty07

This picture is posted in reference to yesterday's discussion

of snake jewelry. These are my snake rings stacked up on my

pinky finger. They no longer fit my ring finger, due to arthritis enlarged knuckle. The lighting was not the best, so the channel

set rubies appear to be darker than their actual bright red color.

The blue sapphires on the other ring look darker in this picture also.

Years ago, Zsa Zsa Gabor was a guest on the Johnny Carson show and spoke of her many marriages. With all her diamond rings, she said that she had a "Diamond Shish Kebab".

So, I thought of taking a picture and posting my "Snake Shish Kebab".

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Kachina624 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:24:01 GMT

@Enufstuff. Very nice. I like snake rings as the snake is such a graceful creature. It's also a very old, historic motif for jewelry.

I prefer the middle one.

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shoesnbags — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:39:17 GMT

@Enufstuff

When I see snake jewelry, I always think of Cleopatra!

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SportyShorty07 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 03:00:55 GMT

@Enufstuff Your Snake Shish Kebab made my day 🤗💯🐍! Thank you so much for the photo of your gorgeous collection of snake rings! These are absolutely stunning- love the weight and shine of the gold. Beautiful inset rubies, diamonds and sapphires- and the ruby eyes! Fabulous textured scales and I love the curves of the snakes. Yes indeed- this is a stunning trio of fancy gold and gemstone snakes! Zsa Zsa Gabor would've loved your snake shish kebab! Where did you get these beautiful rings, Enuffstuff? Cute little pinky finger by the way 💗.

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Venezia — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:52:18 GMT

@Enufstuff - I love the one on the left of the photo, with the sapphires! All three are beautiful, but that would be my favorite.

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Enufstuff — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:22:30 GMT

@shoesnbags I love all things Egyptian and Cleopatra. I have three of the old Cleopatra movies on video and a few books

about Cleopatra. Her headress had the Royal Cobra.

My living room has a lot of Egyptian decor.

I have art and jewelry with the image of Cleopatra and I dressed as her for a couple of Halloween parties, years ago.

Sadly, she died from the bite of an asp.

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Enufstuff — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:24:10 GMT

@Venezia I love the two LeVian rings with the gemstones and diamonds. The one with the sapphires is my favorite also.

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rockygems123 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:31:57 GMT

@Enufstuff

Fabulous!

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Kachina624 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:45:36 GMT

@Enufstuff. Have you seen pictures of the new Egyptian museum? It might be the most fabulous museum in the world, just unbelievable exhibits.

I'd give anything to visit in person but that ship has sailed for me.

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Enufstuff — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 03:09:46 GMT

@SportyShorty07 The two LeVian rings I purchased back in the early 90's at Filene's which was a lovely department store near where I live. Filene's also had a store in Boston.

They are a size five and fit my ring finger when I got them, before arthritis enlarged my knuckles. I've had my wedding ring sized up twice.

Filene's had the best of everything. My youngest daughter got her wedding gown at the Boston store. Filene's and Lord & Taylor were my favorite stores, both gone now.

I don't really remember where I bought the plain gold ring. I've bought so many rings over the years, many from QVC and local jewelers. I've given many away to my girls and still have a ring box full, probably about fifty rings left. Maybe I'll give them each another ring for this Mother's Day.

Sometimes I'll take several rings from the box and let them each choose the one they want. There are four girls, my three daughters and daughter in law. I've given a few to my two grand daughters and three great grand daughters.

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Enufstuff — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:00:10 GMT

@Kachina624 I have seen pictures of the new museum outside, but not inside.

Several times I have visited the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and their Egyptian exhibits. I have also gone to lectures

by Egyptologists at the museum. My sister in law and I were planning to go to a wonderful King Tut exhibit there, but covid came and that was cancelled.

The Museum of Science in Boston had a wonderful Ramses exhibit in the 90's and their gift shop has always been my go to for a lot of my Egyptian jewelry and decor. I've bought beautiful silk scarves and jewelry with Egyptian designs from the Museum of Fine Arts also.

I love watching documentaries about Egypt especially

with Ramy Romany and George Tsoukalos. I used to watch the ones with Zahi Hawass but he got very arrogant and I saw how rude he was to a female archeaologist. He seemed very misogynistic.

I will have to look online to find something on the new museum. For many years, my dream was to visit Egypt one day. I had a Fodors book about traveling to Egypt and was learning some basic Arabic. Before I married my second husband in 1992, I had a couple of Egyptian boyfriends and

was part of a community of Middle Eastern dancers in the Boston area. We had workshops with instructors from Egypt and Lebanon and I studied with several instructors for seven years. They were planning a group trip to Egypt and I would have loved to have gone with the other dancers.

By that time I had met my second husband and was planning

our wedding.

The way things have happened over the past years, I would not travel the Middle East. I'm too old for a trip like that now, but I like watching documentaries of people traveling there.

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Jk9 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:38:58 GMT

I think your rings are quite stunning. I don't mind snakes in jewelry and have a couple of pieces, I have the same problem with my fingers and knuckles enlarging over the years even though my weight is about the same. I remember Barbara Bixby talking about the symbolism of snakes in a positive way.

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cindyNC — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:19:53 GMT

I purchased these snake earrings from an Etsy vendor back in 2022 and they are one of my favorite pair of earrings

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Enufstuff — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:37:43 GMT

@cindyNC

Those are pretty earrings and a different kind of style. I like the pearl drops on them.

My Kenneth Jay Lane snake earrings are just in a large hoop shape. My other pair are smaller and in a figure eight shape and

have turquoise colored enamel over silver.

I just remembered, I have a Native American pair in silver. These are small and not three dimensional. They are flat with etched details and tiny turquoise eyes.

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Sooner — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:21:13 GMT

Snake Shish Kebabs are available and also fried snake at many of the annual rattlesnake festivals going on in Oklahoma and Texas at this time of the year.

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beckyb1012 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:35:25 GMT

I would have a hard time choosing a favorite.

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SamBrown — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:50:09 GMT

Beautiful rings.

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SportyShorty07 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:52:59 GMT

@Enufstuff Love your snake shish kebab! Filene's and Lord & Taylor were such great stores! Such great selections of jewelry, fashion, handbags and more- its a shame that they went out of business. I bet your youngest daughter's wedding gown is so gorgeous! I bet she got a great deal on it too from Filene's.

I'm sure your jewelry box is filled with so many beautiful jewelry pieces! Your daughters, daughter in law and granddaughters must love your collection too! That is so kind of you to gift them all pieces from your jewelry box- I bet they treasure their gifts from you! 💗

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Enufstuff — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:02:37 GMT

@Sooner Oh no! I like snake jewelry, but I'm not that adventurous. I don't think that I would be tempted to try eating

any snakes or other unusual meats.

Have you ever eaten that?

To me "snake shish kebab" was just a play on the words of

Zsa Zsa Gabor, describing her collection of rings.

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Sooner — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:45:22 GMT

@Enufstuff wrote:
@Sooner Oh no! I like snake jewelry, but I'm not that adventurous. I don't think that I would be tempted to try eating
any snakes or other unusual meats.

Have you ever eaten that?

To me "snake shish kebab" was just a play on the words of
Zsa Zsa Gabor, describing her collection of rings.

@Enufstuff No but I have known people who participate in the hunts. Never been to a festival, hunted snakes or eaten them. I have done away with snakes!