This is, as always, good advice. Thank you! I’ll have to stop being lazy and go to Tiffany. I’ve been lazy about it because the ring is very pretty so I do still wear it so it keeps being pushed down my to do list
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This is, as always, good advice. Thank you! I’ll have to stop being lazy and go to Tiffany. I’ve been lazy about it because the ring is very pretty so I do still wear it so it keeps being pushed down my to do list
@BigAkoya Haha goes on to show that it’s not just the wives that are getting savvy at training their hubbies but it’s the other way around too.Here's a tip... next time you take him jewelry shopping, show him high jewelry.
Anything he sees after that is a bargain!
When I first got into bags years ago, he was like "that much for a bag?" Now he's like "what other colors are you getting?"
He has trained me too, but his technique is different than mine. He tells me a story of how rare/beautiful/one-of-a-kind the item he wants is. Then says, "but no, it's too much." Then he brings it up again a few days later with a puppy dog eyes and says "it is so nice, I would love to have it." Then I say "did you get it yet?" He has trained me too.
Hubby is into growing live corals and his beautiful salt water tank has several one of a kind and rare corals. Their beauty leave me breathless but their price has me gasping for air too. So, hubby realized right off the bat when I got into bags and bling that we both have expensive passions where the insane prices defy rationality. He gets my love for bags and bling but poor thing still asks me once in a while if I am ‘done’ or if I ever will and I ask him if he will ever be done with growing corals. He shuts up fast after that
On the training bit, he has trained me so well that now when we go for reef events where the reef aficionados gather multiple times a year to buy, sell and swap coral frags (think dime or penny sized corals), and he buys there, he makes it seem like it was my idea to get him the rare corals. And strangely, it is actually me encouraging him to get them because of his puppy eyes look and talking about how amazing the new addition will look in his tank. It seems our hubbies are extremely clever
@BigAkoya Haha goes on to show that it’s not just the wives that are getting savvy at training their hubbies but it’s the other way around too.
Hubby is into growing live corals and his beautiful salt water tank has several one of a kind and rare corals. Their beauty leave me breathless but their price has me gasping for air too. So, hubby realized right off the bat when I got into bags and bling that we both have expensive passions where the insane prices defy rationality. He gets my love for bags and bling but poor thing still asks me once in a while if I am ‘done’ or if I ever will and I ask him if he will ever be done with growing corals. He shuts up fast after that
On the training bit, he has trained me so well that now when we go for reef events where the reef aficionados gather multiple times a year to buy, sell and swap coral frags (think dime or penny sized corals), and he buys there, he makes it seem like it was my idea to get him the rare corals. And strangely, it is actually me encouraging him to get them because of his puppy eyes look and talking about how amazing the new addition will look in his tank. It seems our hubbies are extremely clever
Omg this is too funny!!! My fiancé is into saltwater tanks and growing corals too!!! And let me tell you, sometimes the price of our jewelry doesn’t come close to some of the rare corals! But I can’t lie it is a great hobby and I love it too but dang why do we both have to have such expensive taste/hobbies?! Lol!!!
Right? You can totally relate! I look at some of the peanut-sized corals and mentally calculate in my head ‘darn, there goes my pave xyz item’
And that’s a question we both ask ourselves and each other - did we both have to have such expensive passions?
what a lovely couple and great story! thanks for sharing.@BigAkoya Haha goes on to show that it’s not just the wives that are getting savvy at training their hubbies but it’s the other way around too.
Hubby is into growing live corals and his beautiful salt water tank has several one of a kind and rare corals. Their beauty leave me breathless but their price has me gasping for air too. So, hubby realized right off the bat when I got into bags and bling that we both have expensive passions where the insane prices defy rationality. He gets my love for bags and bling but poor thing still asks me once in a while if I am ‘done’ or if I ever will and I ask him if he will ever be done with growing corals. He shuts up fast after that
On the training bit, he has trained me so well that now when we go for reef events where the reef aficionados gather multiple times a year to buy, sell and swap coral frags (think dime or penny sized corals), and he buys there, he makes it seem like it was my idea to get him the rare corals. And strangely, it is actually me encouraging him to get them because of his puppy eyes look and talking about how amazing the new addition will look in his tank. It seems our hubbies are extremely clever
Any reviews on alhambra necklace in guilloche gold? Is it easy to maintain? Does it get scratches easily?
I have the bracelet, it is so stunning. Whilst i am OCD, the shininess makes me look past the minor hairline scratches. Honestly, it is really not obvious unless u stare at it from 30cm , like real close but even so, its hard to tell because of how dimensional this piece is.. the light dances around the guilloche areas.. i find any hairline scratches more bearable compared to Love cartier or hermes bangles because those smooth mirrored surfaces show scratches in very obvious manner. But thats just me
I know it would drive me crazy these hairline scratches that I see on some of my mirror surface watches. So for bracelets which I intend to wear daily, i would prefer it to be less obvious …. Do you layer them with other bracelets ?
thanks for ur inputs!
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I have tried every version except the yellow sapphire…that is the final version I need to see before I make my decision. It’s near impossible to try on certain items.
eporting back from the wilds on NYC…..There was absolutely no stock at Flagship store for me to try on from my wishlist. SA said they sent lot of inventory to Tyson store for their grand opening. They did have few stock items though just nothing that we have haven’t already seen. Also I was so disappointed with the heritage section. It was just a case with few items…..I guess I was expecting a museum lol.
The all diamond pair looked the best.