Jewelry

[kaplan206]

So there I was yesterday in the early evening, having woken from my nap and alone in the house temporarily. I suppose it was pushing 6:30pm and I already had night clothes on. The door bell rang and by the time I got up and to the door no one was there. But the brown truck was next door so I put on the light and bounding up the lawn was a new, to me, Ms. Brown with a package. Hmmmmm. I was required to sign for it. I knew what it was.

Since I am still healing from the abdominal surgery, coughing, laughing and the such can be very painful. I try to avoid such scenes right now. But there was no avoiding my screams of delight once the package was opened. It was the tanzie ring.

Such a glorious piece of violet slide onto my finger. It is gorgeous.

I have several tanzanite pieces of jewelry, most in rings, both YG and silver. There is no comparison to the quality of Tanzanite nor the workmanship of those pretenders to Miss judie's masterpiece.

The gem color is saturated but still has plenty of play to allow the blues and purples to fight it out as the tanzie catches the light. It is a considerable hunk of a solitaire. So this is what high quality gems looks like in Tanzanite. Hubba, hubba.

DMQ, which plays a very minor part in the whole scheme of things, is set on stems clustered together on either side of the gem, with teeny stones placed on the gallery of the ring as well. Holy cow! I've never seen stones placed like this before, on stems, and they add a special mystery to the overall look. The rest of the gallery and shank of the ring is drenched in estate-type carvings with, again, the tiniest DMQ stones placed at strategic spots in the carving. The weight of the ring is substantial.

It is ______________________; insert you own adjective as I cannot think of any to do it proper justice.

Costly? Yes. But premium gemstones garner a high price.

For me it is worth every penny.