InBlogNito

As promised, my second post for today.

Shai tagged me for this meme, which is great, because it gives me another day’s topic for a NaBloPoMo post!

Here’s the instructions in case you decide to do it (consider yourself tagged if you’re reading this and haven’t already done it!):

1. Find your 6th photo folder (hard drive or online)
2. Find the 6th photo in that folder.
3. Share the photo on your blog and give the details of the photo.
4. Tag 5 folks to do the same.

I went to both Flickr and my hard drive (so I could choose the best one!) and ended up going with my hard drive. As it happened, every photo in that folder was of the same thing, so I will admit to cheating and using a different (better) photo, but the story is still the same.

As much as I love my jewellry, I very rarely see something and think ‘wow! I love that!’ (my gold collection is actually pretty small!) but one day when I was out shopping with my BFF we came across a boutique jewellry shop and I saw a necklace in the window. It was a butterfly, and I have a thing for butterflies anyway, but it was a really unique design for butterfly jewellry. My friend ended up going in to find out how much it was, and found out it was WAY out of my reach. However the lady said they could do it make me one in a 9ct (the display was 18ct) version, with cubics (instead of diamonds) and it would be a lot more affordable. In the end I went with diamonds (so glad I did!) because it was the type of setting that made it expensive, not the stones being used, but just switching to 9ct gold bought the price down to almost half what it was. So I ordered it and paid it off over a couple of months. In the mean time I moved here (almost 3 years ago to the day) and once it was finished they shipped it to me. When I opened it up I was disappointed to find that they had substituted the finer double chain for a thicker single chain - apparently they couldn’t source a double chain. They put an extra diamond in to make up for it, but it really bugged me, I’d rather have had the double chain, because it really finished off the necklace - the lady in the shop had even used those exact words about it. I have intended ever since to have another jeweller make a new chain for it. I don’t see how they couldn’t source one, just find a finer chain, get a length of it and double it over! I could do it myself given the chain, a catch and some tools - I wouldn’t do a great job of course, but I don’t see how hard it could be. However, the money was never there for something that really wasn’t urgent, there is a perfectly good chain on it and I wear it a lot. I’ll be coming into some $$ soon as some pay issues have finally been straightened out at work - maybe now is the time to do it? Anyway, here is my beloved necklace, which I still think it gorgeous despite the chain issue:

If I decide to get a new chain for it, I’ll show it off again. And of course I’ll have to buy a new pendant so I can recycle the old chain .