topic Re: @Kachinea624 in Jewelry

@Kachinea624

SharkE — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 20:28:12 GMT

You buying any of American West items. When they mentioned Santa Fe market bought back memories.

I spent a fortune there when 'we' would go on vacation.

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Kachina624 — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 20:40:07 GMT

@SharkE No, I'll go shopping in my jewelry box. I've got pieces I've never even worn and they're so much nicer than what she's turning out now. That bumblebee was sure cute though.

Are you buying?

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KingstonMom — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 20:45:46 GMT

@Kachina624

I actually returned the blue and brown coil bracelets.

As you said, the quality just wasn't there, they seemed too 'flimsy'.

I was disappointed 'cause they sure were cute!

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San Antonio Gal — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 20:50:24 GMT

@Kachina624 @SharkE @KingstonMom - Sure love those reversible enhancers.

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Kachina624 — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 20:55:35 GMT

@San Antonio Gal Did you buy him? He's really cute.

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San Antonio Gal — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 20:58:39 GMT

@Kachina624 - I'm following you by shopping my own jewelry box!

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rockygems123 — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 21:03:13 GMT

@SharkE @Kachina624 I was surprised when Teri Conn said that there were many new items in the show.

Wasn't Carolyn Pollack retiring? I've seen some posts with notices of her discounting her jewelry too.

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Kachina624 — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 21:07:13 GMT

@rockygems123 They retired from manufacturing and she's very guiet about where it's made now. However, she's remaining as the spokesperson for the brand.

They say it's designed in Albuquerque .

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rockygems123 — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 21:12:37 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
@rockygems123 They retired from manufacturing and she's very guiet about where it's made now. However, she's remaining as the spokesperson for the brand.

They say it's designed in Albuquerque .

@Kachina624 Ah!! I was wondering when that was going to happen. As you say newer pieces aren't near the quality as years past and possibly may go even further downhill.

And then the post about Judith Ripka now on JTV? Thought she retired and a family member - daugher or DIL? - took over on QVC.

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Kachina624 — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 21:17:57 GMT

@rockygems123 I haven't seen any Ripka on QVC for several years. It's all JAI. No wonder they went elsewhere. Ripka was sold to someone when she retired. Maybe the same company that own Isaac?

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happilyretiredgirl — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 21:34:35 GMT

Love American West but I agree the older pieces are much better. I have a lot of her jewelry, really like everything I have purchased. On a different note, and I am not being disrespectful because I really like Carolyn, but something looks different about her in speciific her eyes looks different to me. I think her weight loss body wise looks great but something really aged her. I hope it is not something health wise.

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turtle52 — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 22:09:26 GMT

She looks so thin. Losing weight when you are older really ages you. I have lost some weight slowly over the past.few years and now at 71 and I feel that it has aged me.

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SharkE — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 22:14:20 GMT

@Kachina624 Yeah, I got

J425752 pink opal, size small. Her cuffs are the only ones I can wear that fit perfectly. No roll over, sliding, etc.

Wish she would do more rhodocrosite, but, then , I got a couple of that color. This pink opal looks kind of coral, not, a true pink. Everything was going out the door so fast even those 700-800.00 necklaces that I

thought --sis, if you want it or think U might later, best, go ahead and get it. Now, the pink in small is on waitlist.

I think I got in just in time, though.

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SharkE — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 22:16:04 GMT

This is the Rhodocrosite in 3 big stones. Today, that would cost a mint.

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SharkE — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 22:18:30 GMT

I just heard from CS and they assured me I got it in small. Yay ! I got in under the wire.

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SharkE — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 23:41:43 GMT

@Kachina624 I cancelled the order just doesn't look pink to me like the cuff I have. That's a true pink.

Pink opal, looks coral like. I remembered I bought her spiny oyster once in 'orange' and when it came it wasn't a true orange more paled out. I got to have vivid

sharp colors. Don't like that dull melted out color.

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Kachina624 — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 00:22:37 GMT

@SharkE The trouble with buying on TV is that the pick the very best samples to show on TV . Whar YOU actually get may be a horse of a different color.....so to speak.

HSN is the world's worse at doing this especially with Jay King's jewelry. What you receive is often a far cry from what was shown on TV. They have the advantage and you're at their mercy.

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SharkE — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 01:08:32 GMT

Yeah, I got a catalog from ShopNational like their loungewear. Beautiful 'rosewater' pink frills gown in the catalog, so , I go online and look at it and that blasted thing is coral, light orange, so, I call them up and say which color is the true color ? The 'rosewater' version in the catalog or the orangey one online ?

The gal put me on hold and went to actually see it and came back and said "It's pink ish". I just said "thanks" and hung up. Catalog color was beyond great, but, "pinkish" don't cut it. I'll still with Dillards or go look at some other catalog for 'rosewater'.

QVC cameras are half ***** too. I've gotten clothes that don't look anything with what I seen on TV.

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depglass — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 13:06:14 GMT

Years ago I bought a few pieces of turquoise from QVC. It all came in green, never mentioned on TV. So I sold that off after a few years and get my turquoise from local auctions, where I can see it first. Sorry, turquoise is supposed to be turquoise color.