A royal hit to your wallet

Who knew that delaying my blog would give me an opportunity to talk about the man who played one of the best hide and seek games known to man. I’ll tell you what, a big sigh of relief trickled across America. The ‘Where in the world is Osama Bin Laden’ game, ended after a ten year hunt from the moment the world trade center went down on that horrific day on September 11, 2001. I’ll tell you what, thank god that’s over and thank god all those family members of the 3000 plus that perished on that day and any other attacks that had Bin Laden was linked with, received some sort of justice and closure.

Did I wake up at 4:00am to watch the royal wedding? No, I didn’t. I was navigating through my third dream by that time. I’m sad to say that I was NOT part of the two billion people that watched Prince William and Kate Middleton tie the knot on April 29th, 2011. I did however, watch the 5 minute round up video of the wedding just to catch up. Kate’s wedding ring has caused some sort of frenzy to replicate, duplicate, etc.. I saw a knock off of the ring on some retailers website for $80 today. As is tradition for royal brides, the ring has been fashioned from Welsh gold, valued for its quality and scarcity. The people of Sri Lanka were represented in the wedding by providing the center stone for Princess Diana’s wedding ring. The 12 carat, ceylon sapphire was the choice for the center stone that was wrapped around with 14 round diamonds. The ring is estimated to valued at $500k. So, well done to Prince William for hooking up his bride with his mother’s – Princess Diana’s – wedding ring. Keeping it in the family and keeping it real with traditions.

Now here is a section where if you continue reading, your stomach will turn from the horror of hearing about another broken Tanzanite story. The biggest rule when it comes to Tanzanites – do not expose it to extreme temperature changes or you will get cracks inside the stone and you will be forced to call me to replace it for you (I thought it was funny). My customer comes in with this 14 carat, cushion cut, gem color of a Tanzanite. You wanna talk about having no luck? This wasn’t a clean break so you could completely salvage the stone. This stone had multiple cracks and I decided to have a go at it and start slicing up the stone to see where and how I can salvage it. The pictures below pretty much tell the rest of the story. Read my older post about a similar topic here. Till next time…