Happy Thursday my sweetheart! So it has been a few super fun weeks at the antique shop and those of you who follow me on Instagram will have seen a few of these photos already, but here I can tell you a bit more about them!
I may have had a little play around with all the beautiful aquamarine and diamond rings from Moira and Richard Ogden…
I have such a soft spot for Aquamarines and they sure tally up well with diamonds! When you get a really beautiful one it is like gazing into the Mediterranean Ocean, with that light-blue, see-through colour, where you almost expect little tropical fish to swim past!
Multicoloured gold necklace from Moira Fine Jewels
Ahh this was a funny story..! The guys at Moira Fine Jewels asked me to wear this necklace in the shop and I took a few photos of it for their social media. I then unwrapped it once around my neck to take it off – only to realise that I got myself into a real tangle and sure couldn’t get out! One of my colleagues tried to help me but gave up after five minutes – fortunately my favourite jewellery craftsman walked through the door that very moment and decided to help and after another five minutes I was freed! But that ridiculous feeling of being trapped sure came over me for a split second – although I can think of worse ways to go than in a £23,000 necklace with garnets, aquamarines and amethysts! We also decided to measure it as it is so super long, and here is a live shot from the exercise:
How to measure jewellery
There were no two ways about it: it had to be done manually with a tape measurer and we made sure that all the aquamarines, sapphires in a rainbow of colours, citrines, peridots and zircons were included – and ended up with an impressive 7 feet!
So anyway, that is what we have been up to lately and I will now be going away for two weeks, and I won’t have very much internet connection, so it means that I will see you again after the 13th of June! Wishing you a wonderful summer until then – and make sure to wear all your most beautiful pieces during that time!!
Cushion cut diamond ring from Moira Fine Jewels
And here is one more for good luck – a stunning cushion cut diamond from Moira Fine Jewels… and we swoon!
Decades of Elegance 