Do you have diamond earrings?

[TrudyCampbell]

Maybe I'll try brainwashing my husband in his sleep with that ridiculous diamond commercial.

"Everything you have wouldn't even EXIST without her"

[lolaburns]

Dec 4, 2013 16:43:55 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

Dec 4, 2013 16:28:09 GMT -5 @lindy said:

I just googled 1 carat each and I almost fell over, like $5000!

I do think for someone smaller like you 1 carat each would look too big.

I'm not sure that there is a such thing as too big! My engagement ring has a 1.3 carat center stone and I can totally picture it on my ear, lol.

Go big or go home is my motto.

[fusion]

So want to hear something lame? My H printed out a picture of a set of diamond earrings he was going to get me for my mother's day present this year. 1/2 carat each, princess cut, platinum setting (I have metal sensitivities and don't want to chance it), gorgeous. Life happened (I injured myself, we decided to take a family vacation, etc.) I never got them I WILL be getting them sometime in the first part of next year though, or balls will roll. Not like I need them for procreating anymore.

[rubber pants]

Yes. I believe they are 1/4 each.

I wear them every day. Never take them off.

[eav2c]

Yes. They were my moms and I got them when my mom passed. I believe they are a carat each but now I'm wondering and thinking I'm wrong after reading this post. I had them appraised and am adamant to find the paperwork because that sounds big. They are supposedly engagement equality and each boy will get one for an engagement ring (my mom gifted us each a diamond for our rings too). This could change if I ever have a girl.

[Beener]

I got them for my 30th/first Mother's Day with the idea that DH will upgrade them occasionally for bigger on major holidays/events. They are .25 each I believe

[teamhayes]

Dec 4, 2013 17:16:40 GMT -5 eav2c said:

Yes. They were my moms and I got them when my mom passed. I believe they are a carat each but now I'm wondering and thinking I'm wrong after reading this post. I had them appraised and am adamant to find the paperwork because that sounds big. They are supposedly engagement equality and each boy will get one for an engagement ring (my mom gifted us each a diamond for our rings too). This could change if I ever have a girl.

I love the idea of giving on to each boy

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Dec 4, 2013 17:25:19 GMT -5 teamhayes said:

Dec 4, 2013 17:16:40 GMT -5 eav2c said:

Yes. They were my moms and I got them when my mom passed. I believe they are a carat each but now I'm wondering and thinking I'm wrong after reading this post. I had them appraised and am adamant to find the paperwork because that sounds big. They are supposedly engagement equality and each boy will get one for an engagement ring (my mom gifted us each a diamond for our rings too). This could change if I ever have a girl.

I love the idea of giving on to each boy

Me too. Very sweet idea!

[carawestt]

Dec 4, 2013 17:25:19 GMT -5 teamhayes said:

Dec 4, 2013 17:16:40 GMT -5 eav2c said:

Yes. They were my moms and I got them when my mom passed. I believe they are a carat each but now I'm wondering and thinking I'm wrong after reading this post. I had them appraised and am adamant to find the paperwork because that sounds big. They are supposedly engagement equality and each boy will get one for an engagement ring (my mom gifted us each a diamond for our rings too). This could change if I ever have a girl.

I love the idea of giving on to each boy

Me too! So sweet.

[eav2c]

Okay, I was wrong. Its just over a carat total. One diamond is .53 and the other is .51 This is a picture of them from the appraisal. Wore them on my wedding day. I had planned to gift them but I thought they were bigger, lol. I will try still. They are beautiful and I wish I had the guts to wear them.

[TrudyCampbell]

Dec 4, 2013 17:28:17 GMT -5 eav2c said:

Okay, I was wrong. Its just over a carat total. One diamond is .53 and the other is .51 This is a picture of them from the appraisal. Wore them on my wedding day. I had planned to gift them but I thought they were bigger, lol. I will try still. They are beautiful and I wish I had the guts to wear them.

OMG, wear them!! Wear them with sweatpants!

[musiclover]

I agree with charlielove about preferring more understated jewelery, and man some of those earrings sound HUGE!!! I would be too afraid to lose one.  I could for sure go up a size in mine, but I can't imagine some of those, haha


So when I stalked went up to teamhayes at the market, her HUGE diamond earrings were blinding me, and poor Nolan kept saying "too bright".

Loo, jk.

[carawestt]

Dec 4, 2013 17:28:17 GMT -5 eav2c said:

Okay, I was wrong. Its just over a carat total. One diamond is .53 and the other is .51 This is a picture of them from the appraisal. Wore them on my wedding day. I had planned to gift them but I thought they were bigger, lol. I will try still. They are beautiful and I wish I had the guts to wear them.

Those are perfect! They're the same size as mine. And they'll make perfect engagement ring stones for the boys; my stone is .54 carats.

[hass2001]

I got a pair from my dad for my High school graduation. I have no idea what size, I know they were small. But I lost one earing years ago

[oso]

I really want a pair, but at least 3/4 each and high quality. It's not going to happen any time soon and I want a full frame camera first.

[eav2c]

Dec 4, 2013 17:30:41 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

Dec 4, 2013 17:28:17 GMT -5 eav2c said:

Okay, I was wrong. Its just over a carat total. One diamond is .53 and the other is .51 This is a picture of them from the appraisal. Wore them on my wedding day. I had planned to gift them but I thought they were bigger, lol. I will try still. They are beautiful and I wish I had the guts to wear them.

OMG, wear them!! Wear them with sweatpants!

They have the screwbacks too so I should. I need to insure them first. I am a crappy jewelry owner especially since they were my mom's.

[Deleted]

Nope and it gives me the sads.

[imimahoney]

I have .5 total weight earrings so .25 each ear and they are round cut.

[thedahliharpa]

My dad bought me a real pair when I was 6 :-). Life in the 80s w/ young parents who went crazy with credit cards had its peeks. They were obviously tiny and who knows where they are now.

[silverjm]

I have a tiny pair that I wear in my second hole. I bought a nice faux pair that were 1 carat each and they were so huge I wasn't comfortable wearing them and returned them. I wear a pair of silver hoops everyday that I love, so I don't want diamonds now anyways, but if I did I'd buy faux.

My white gold rings start to turn yellow after about 6 months, I am very overdue to have them redipped. Someday I would like to replace my setting with platinum.

[ruby412]

Here is a pic of mine. I literally never take them off. It is a round stone in a 3-prong setting, resembling a martini glass hence the name martini set.

[laurack]

No! I would be horrified to receive such a gift. Luckily h knows and would never buy me diamond anything.

I don't wear any earrings at all, or any jewelry outside a plain gold wedding band.

I am a strange female, this is obvious to me reading this thread.

[devonpow]

I think mine are about .75 each? Princess cut studs (matches my e ring). DH got them for me for our 5th anniversary. He thought I would only wear them on special occasions? LOL I haven't taken them off except to clean them in 4 years. 

[Deleted]

I almost never take them out. Dh got them for me one Christmas to trick me thinking that he was going to propose to me. He ended up asking me in New Year's Eve.

[TrudyCampbell]

Dec 4, 2013 18:22:33 GMT -5 @huahualove said:

I almost never take them out. Dh got them for me one Christmas to trick me thinking that he was going to propose to me. He ended up asking me in New Year's Eve.

That's a good holiday season!

[fusion]

Dec 4, 2013 18:22:14 GMT -5 devonpow said:

I think mine are about .75 each? Princess cut studs (matches my e ring). DH got them for me for our 5th anniversary. He thought I would only wear them on special occasions? LOL I haven't taken them off except to clean them in 4 years. 

pic?

[devonpow]

Dec 4, 2013 18:24:01 GMT -5 fusion said:

Dec 4, 2013 18:22:14 GMT -5 devonpow said:

I think mine are about .75 each? Princess cut studs (matches my e ring). DH got them for me for our 5th anniversary. He thought I would only wear them on special occasions? LOL I haven't taken them off except to clean them in 4 years. 

pic?

I can't right now - I'm sitting in the bathroom floor while E takes a bath

[Deleted]

Dec 4, 2013 18:23:40 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

Dec 4, 2013 18:22:33 GMT -5 @huahualove said:

I almost never take them out. Dh got them for me one Christmas to trick me thinking that he was going to propose to me. He ended up asking me in New Year's Eve.

That's a good holiday season!

I'm always open to being tricked from someone buying me diamonds

[muppetinma]

I have a pair that DH gave me. 1/4 carat each. They're simple studs and I used to wear them all the time in my 2nd hole. I also have a pair of laughably large ones. They were a gift from my parents' BFFs for my wedding. She already owned them and wanted me to wear them. Then she just told me to keep them. I'm not even sure how big they are. 2 carats each? Bigger? I don't know. I'm such a bad judge of size. They're locked away in a safe deposit box currently. I'm not allowed to have nice things.

[AndyCohen]

Dec 4, 2013 17:12:49 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

Maybe I'll try brainwashing my husband in his sleep with that ridiculous diamond commercial.

"Everything you have wouldn't even EXIST without her"

I am so tempted to email this video to my H but I think he will get all defensive and butthurt instead of seeing the humor in it.