Keeping that in mind I tried to quell my excitement about seeing the work of master artisans: Van Cleef & Arpels, but something happened when those spotlights in the museum hit the jewels and they didn’t just glisten and glitter, they blazed and dazzled and drew me…
Turns out I am distracted by bright, shiny, objects.
Can you blame me?
And I, like Lorelei Lee, much prefer bracelets to rings, anyhow.
I’m an odd duck: I don’t particularly care for jewels (costume jewelry is another matter, though). My husband, much to my delight, proposed without giving me an engagement ring. Most people find that weird, but I do not care!
My husband didn’t either 😉 — maybe that’s the secret to a long and happy marriage. Hugs to you and the Chef!
Perhaps it is! 🙂 Three years later, still no engagement ring. I’d rather have books, anyway.
You are a gal after my own heart!
Ditto, from here. And, at the time, we were living in a diamond producing country and next door to another!
I have a little art deco sparkler on my hand now, but it was for an anniversary 😉 .
I did it this way….a diamond pendant came within the first year. Then, somewhere along the line, the diamond from the pendant was put on my grandmother’s wedding ring and made pretty. And, for another anniversary, I got a new diamond for the pendant and diamond earrings. And that’s plenty enough for me 😀 Mmmmmm…but I like diamond bangles/bracelets…..
Haha, I’d be distracted too!
I do like rings, but only the ones I wear every day. As soon as you leave out a ring, even after wearing just a few hours, it feels like your finger is missing.
Bracelets rock.
No missing fingers! Put that ring back on! xox, V
I agree with you on bracelets! I much prefer a piece of arm candy over a ring.
I don’t know what it is, I just like that cuff of sparklers! They send me!
When someone proposes to their Beloved, it’s the Love not the rock that matters, no?!
“Diamonds are forever/sparkling ’round my little finger/unlike men the diamonds linger/men are mere mortals who it’s not worth going to your grave for…” Apparently Shirley Bassey has forthright views on the subject of diamonds and disagrees! I’m a big fan of that Bond theme, it’s softly funky and tres melodramatic. 🙂
“No wedding bells for me anymore. I’ve been happily married to my profession for years.” Dame Shirley Bassey
Dame Shirl! The very definition of “Diva”? One can’t talk to or laugh with or kiss or cuddle or comfort a profession tho’, it seems rather sad and lonely. But each to their own-ly!
I think she gets her love from the audience. It’s got to be quite a rush.
I like bright, shiny things too 😀
Say! Some young, bright shiny thing…like YOU…was going to send an email 😉 .
’tis coming! Hard to tell. I think you probably know the end, no?
Can’t wait!
And I never skip ahead to the end. xox, V
I might be missing the point but I simply admire the photography here: captures the women’s beauty (apart from Jean Harlow, I admit I never quite got the frenzy about her – esp. her dark, hidden little eyes have something threatening and otherworldly) and the fantastic shine and lustre of the jewels.
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