I know. Two holidays, two days in a row, but yesterday’s Hitchcock day was something I could get behind—but so is Jewel Day! It’s a day to celebrate all that sparkles!
I love jewels. Actually, my love of jewels is based on my lifelong love of rocks/geology. When I was a kid, I kept notebooks of little “book reports” I wrote about things like plate tectonics, volcanoes, geysers, earthquakes, and how rocks were formed naturally. This was when I was in grade school. I collected shoeboxes of rocks: agates, crystals, Apache tears, round river rocks, raw topaz, raw turquoise, fossils, and so many more. I once had a rock tumbler, but I didn’t like seeing my babies ground into smaller bits, so I continued leaving them in their rough, raw form.
When I got old enough, and had enough money to do so, I stared buying jewelry with gemstones I love. My first piece was a pretty Aquamarine ring with the stones forming a flower. Now, I have several rings with lovely topaz, sapphire, garnet, ruby, ametrine, amethyst, etc. I’ve gifted my daughter and the 20-year-old with some of my pieces because, as you know, I can’t take it with me.
Anyway, all this to say, I love sparklies. I also love stones that aren’t as precious—jade, aventurine, pretty agates, amber and the like. Rocks are endlessly fascinating to me. It’s why I love making jewelry, using semi-precious beads.
My favorite jewel is a red ruby. My mother, after she passed, left me a gorgeous, gaudy, huge ruby ring, along with a couple of diamond rings I treasure. I also love pearls, which aren’t exactly stones but are somehow considered jewels. It’s my birthstone, being a June baby.
So, my question to you is, for a chance to win a $5 Amazon gift card is, what’s your favorite jewel or your birthstone? Do you have a piece you treasure?
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I’m kinda partial to peridot because it’s my birthstone and I love the shade of green, I don’t wear much jewelry, I wear my class ring, and a necklace that has 3 different dolphin charms and baby birthstone rings for my kids and grandkids, I have 2 more to get now that I found someone that sells them
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no fav
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Sapphire is my birth stone.
Thank you for the opportunity!
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My favorite stone is amethyst. I have been a fan of purple for a very long time. Otherwise, bling isn’t really my thing. Most of the jewelry I have had as been past on to someone who would actually wear it. I don’t. I do still have a few pieces I treasure – The locket my dad gave my mom with his unit insignia when he was in the service for one. But it has no stones. Just very young pictures of my parents. And yes, it is my most treasured piece these days.
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I have a topaz ring that I love because it’s a piece my husband gave me when we decided to get married. We were poor college students so it took us months to pay it off. Every time I wear it I think about how happy we were the day we paid it off finally.
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Amethyst is my birth stone and also my favorite jewel. I have a pair of Amethyst earrings that’s my favorite jewelry.
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I’m partial to Opal, emerald, sapphire and amethyst. Opal is my birthstone, green, purple and blues are favorite colors. I also love finding rocks, and making things.
Malachite, lapis lazuli is also fun. Puddingstone, Petoskey stone etc.
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My birth stone is peridot. I love a Green Sphene (also called Christmas stone, has more light dispersion than a diamond with red and green flashes, garnet, various colored sapphire as well.
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My birthstone is ruby. I bought a ruby star sapphire ring when I was stationed in Turkey unfortunately the setting was not as good as those in the states and I lost the stone. When I got my engagement ring I didn’t want a diamond as I had my mom’s rings so I have a blue sapphire So guess my favorite is Sapphire.