I love emeralds; their dark green color is really beautiful. They are the gems of youth. The Emerald is actually a member of the beryl family.

May is gone. It was a great month though. Spring has finally got here. Everything is green and the flowers are beautiful.

I love Mother’s Day! I’m not one of those women who don’t like it. But then I’ve got a great husband who pampers me. He made me breakfast in bed to start the day and it just got better from there.

Greeks dedicated the emerald to the goddess Venus, and Incas worshipped an emerald goddess. Cleopatra had emerald mines that were famous in 2000 B.C. They have long been appreciated for their beauty.Emeralds are said to enhance your insight and intelligence.

I didn’t find my jewelers jewelry diamond ruby necklace but I did find this gorgeous diamond emerald necklace.

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All diamonds feature 4 C’s. First is the cut. In the overall appearance of the diamond, the cut is the most important. A diamond relies on light refracting and reflecting from it. This makes it sparkle and shine. Therefore it’s important to get a good cut for a brilliant shine. Marquise cut, emerald cut, round cut, and princess cut are a few of the cuts you might request.

The next C is clarity. Clarity is crystalline fractures inside of the diamond. This is tested with a microscope under a 10X magnification. The most beautiful diamonds are flawless in clarity.

Next comes the color. The rarest diamonds are white or colorless. Poor quality diamonds tend to be yellow. A good diamond choice appears nearly colorless. Have you heard a jeweler tell you that a diamond “faces up” to the eye? The color of the diamond is graded from the bottom of the stone. This gives you the illusion that there is less color in it than there really is.

The last C is Carat weight. The carat weight is referred to in fractions. A half-carat stone can be called 50 points also. If you have multiple diamonds in your ring the carat weight is the total weight of all the diamonds in the ring. If you have a solitaire ring it is just the weight of the one diamond.

You must rely on all four C’s to choose your diamond ring. If it has an attractive sparkle, a colorless color, and a few minute flaws. It is a beautiful ring. Then you can choose the size of carat that will fit in your budget.

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The pearl is an organic gem. It is made when a little piece of sand or any foreign irritant gets into an oyster’s shell. It is a natural defense to an irritant. The mollusk then secrets nacre, which is thin layers of calcium carbonate in an attempt to cover the object. The continual layering of nacre will almost always make a misshapen pearl.

A cultured pearl is formed in almost the same way; only man supplies the irritant instead of nature. They use a mother of pearl shell, which they insert into the animal. A pearl will take from 2 to 6 years to grow. The farmer must keep a watchful eye on the pearls.

The ancient people once thought of pearls as tears of the Gods.

In 1920 they were used as a nuptial gem when getting married. Pearls stand for wisdom, purity and femininity.

Pearls are a 3.0- 4.0 on the MAHS hardness scale for gems. This means that they are relatively soft compared to other gems.

If you are celebrating a wedding anniversary, pearls are the gems for the eight-year anniversary. A very romantic idea for an anniversary is to go to Hawaii and let your sweetheart pick out her own shell and see what pearl is inside. We did this for one anniversary and I got a beautiful cream pearl, which my husband had made into a necklace for me.

Honora pearls are good quality and they supply the very best freshwater pearls. Honora has over 60 years of experience in cultured pearls. When picking a cultured pearl you should consider these six qualities: size, roundness, cleanliness, nacre thickness, luster, and color.

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It will be our 37th anniversary this year in July. Each year has a different traditional gift that is just for that year. Each year my husband surprises me with something beautiful.

On our first year anniversary the traditional gift was paper. He didn’t like that gift very well so he gave me a purple pig instead. At least it starts with a P!

On the fifth anniversary the traditional gift is wood. He built me a charming oak cabinet.

On our tenth anniversary the traditional gift is tin. He gave me a pie plate to fill with his favorite pie.

On the 15th, which is crystal traditionally, he took me to Germany. We went to the glass blowers shop and got a set of crystal goblets.

Of course china is for the 20th wedding anniversary. I did receive my set of china for this anniversary.

On my 30th wedding anniversary he took me to Hawaii and I hand selected my pearl. This is the traditional gift for this year.

The 35th year is coral.

This year on our 37th wedding anniversary there isn’t a traditional gift. I don’t know what to expect. I hope he continues the Hawaii tradition. I would like black pearl earrings.

The 40th anniversary is ruby and of course the 50th is gold.

The place on the Internet that I found has links to lots of online jewelry shops. I liked this because I could look at many different black pearl earrings at one time from the various jewelers. They ranged in price from $20 to $2,000 and everywhere in-between.

Oh, I almost forgot, the place is www.lookingoodagain.com Check it out; I think you will like it as much as I did.

I think we should make the 37th anniversary, the black pearl earring wedding anniversary!