MrsD
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A little background on this special bracelet that I have been excited to show on PG:
I received the mother’s day special discount from a PP email in 2013. I asked for a custom order for a bracelet. I told them my budget, and I wished for white, AAA, FWs in a triple/quad strand. Together we came up with an awesome design. Unfortunately, the final price was 50% of the budget OVER the budget, and even though I wanted it soooo badly, I am too responsible for my own good. I thanked her for her time. She said that she would hold it in case anything changed in the future. I was pretty disappointed, but it is what it is. I wasn’t upset with the woman that was helping me. She was so kind. I was upset that we came up with such a fantastic design, that I couldn’t wear anything else, so I would have to file it away for “maybe in the future”. I kept it in my “Pearls” email folder and kind of just forgot about it.
So, fast forward to January 9th 2015, my 5th wedding anniversary and WHAT does my husband produce in front of me, you ask?? The pearl bracelet that wasn’t meant to be! I had completely forgotten about it because I try not to obsess over what I cannot have, so I was floored. First, I can’t believe he even remembered that I wanted this bracelet because a) it was so long ago, and b) I didn’t really talk to him too much about it when I was working with PP to make it because I was buying it for myself. I actually haven’t asked him how he did it, now that I think about it… I know that in October or November 2014 he emailed someone and said, “Hey, does anybody remember this?” or something like that, but that’s pretty much it. I should ask... I could not stop looking at it. It’s so shiny. It’s heavy and I feel like I am wearing something special when I have it on. I love the feeling that it's cold when I put it on, and then it warms up with my skin (my diamonds don't do that!). I have been dying for a time to wear it since January, and I did, on my 30th birthday dinner this month with our friends and family. That’s why I have been back on PG actually. I wanted to upload a picture for everyone because it is beautiful and I love all of the beautiful pictures myself, and also because I haven’t bought myself any pearls in two years!! So I have been looking for inspiration. I am going to try to not and get “too big for my britches” or let my “eyes get too big” because it was a rough experience wanting something so badly that I could not have. I am learning the difference between window shopping and coveting--it's the finest of lines. Those 16mm champagne south seas though….
I hope you enjoy the pictures. Most are of the new bracelet, but I added one of me and my pearls (and the husband that has connected us) in our glory on my birthday last week.
On a funnier note: one of the girls at the dinner table asked me if they were cultured pearls. In my head I was thinking--in the lightest of spirits, of course-- NOPE, the queen of England is a special friend of mine and pulled out these pearls that the queen of Egypt gave her family… But I just said, "yes, they come from freshwater mollusks." I am proud of my pearl knowledge.
Ps. Assuming that this is the original bracelet, the largest center pearl is 11mm and they graduate down from there. The two outer strands are 6-7 mm.
I received the mother’s day special discount from a PP email in 2013. I asked for a custom order for a bracelet. I told them my budget, and I wished for white, AAA, FWs in a triple/quad strand. Together we came up with an awesome design. Unfortunately, the final price was 50% of the budget OVER the budget, and even though I wanted it soooo badly, I am too responsible for my own good. I thanked her for her time. She said that she would hold it in case anything changed in the future. I was pretty disappointed, but it is what it is. I wasn’t upset with the woman that was helping me. She was so kind. I was upset that we came up with such a fantastic design, that I couldn’t wear anything else, so I would have to file it away for “maybe in the future”. I kept it in my “Pearls” email folder and kind of just forgot about it.
So, fast forward to January 9th 2015, my 5th wedding anniversary and WHAT does my husband produce in front of me, you ask?? The pearl bracelet that wasn’t meant to be! I had completely forgotten about it because I try not to obsess over what I cannot have, so I was floored. First, I can’t believe he even remembered that I wanted this bracelet because a) it was so long ago, and b) I didn’t really talk to him too much about it when I was working with PP to make it because I was buying it for myself. I actually haven’t asked him how he did it, now that I think about it… I know that in October or November 2014 he emailed someone and said, “Hey, does anybody remember this?” or something like that, but that’s pretty much it. I should ask... I could not stop looking at it. It’s so shiny. It’s heavy and I feel like I am wearing something special when I have it on. I love the feeling that it's cold when I put it on, and then it warms up with my skin (my diamonds don't do that!). I have been dying for a time to wear it since January, and I did, on my 30th birthday dinner this month with our friends and family. That’s why I have been back on PG actually. I wanted to upload a picture for everyone because it is beautiful and I love all of the beautiful pictures myself, and also because I haven’t bought myself any pearls in two years!! So I have been looking for inspiration. I am going to try to not and get “too big for my britches” or let my “eyes get too big” because it was a rough experience wanting something so badly that I could not have. I am learning the difference between window shopping and coveting--it's the finest of lines. Those 16mm champagne south seas though….
I hope you enjoy the pictures. Most are of the new bracelet, but I added one of me and my pearls (and the husband that has connected us) in our glory on my birthday last week.
On a funnier note: one of the girls at the dinner table asked me if they were cultured pearls. In my head I was thinking--in the lightest of spirits, of course-- NOPE, the queen of England is a special friend of mine and pulled out these pearls that the queen of Egypt gave her family… But I just said, "yes, they come from freshwater mollusks." I am proud of my pearl knowledge.
Ps. Assuming that this is the original bracelet, the largest center pearl is 11mm and they graduate down from there. The two outer strands are 6-7 mm.
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