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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Saturday, November 17, 2007 - 7:27 pm
SERATE: YOU ROCK!!! Thanks a million!!! 
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Saturday, November 17, 2007 - 7:28 pm
Can you provide links for the Zales one? I found the JCPenney one!
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Saturday, November 17, 2007 - 7:42 pm
Zales personalized rings
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Saturday, November 17, 2007 - 7:43 pm
sorry it took me so long I'm still looking. *L* I LOVE looking at rings. Don't like to wear them but love looking at them.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Saturday, November 17, 2007 - 8:38 pm
Thanks again!!! You are a sweetie to help me look!
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Saturday, November 17, 2007 - 9:53 pm
I wear sterling, and it's great.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Sunday, November 18, 2007 - 5:59 pm
There's absolutely no reason you can't wear sterling silver. Whomever told you that is incorrect. Most of my daily jewelry is sterling.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Sunday, November 18, 2007 - 7:03 pm
Cool! Thanks EEyore and Costa!!!! I believe I googled it...using: "difference between white gold, platinum and sterling silver"
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Sunday, November 18, 2007 - 7:04 pm
And the first link I got was: http://gilletts.com.au/information.php?info_id=39 The part that stuck out is: Silver is a popular metal for use in jewelry such as earrings, pendants, bracelets, necklaces and dress rings. It is best used for jewelry that will not be worn every day for an extended period. For that reason it is usually not recommend to be chosen for ladies and men's wedding rings, and is not suitable for ladies engagement rings.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Sunday, November 18, 2007 - 8:31 pm
Doesn't matter. I have two silver rings I wear almost every day. I seem to recall you wanted to spend less than $100? Then you're not going to get platinum or white gold of any value. You get what you pay for, especially in jewelry where the weight determines the cost. If you're worried about "value" don't get anything "plated" or "overlaid". The overlay will wear off. Finally, and I've said this before, do not believe everything you read on the Internet. Particularly from a site where they are selling the items you're questioning (and yes, they would want to sell you the higher priced items, wouldn't they now?). Your best bet is to go to a jewelry store, look at the options, talk to the jeweler. You're not spending enough money for it to be an investment, so you don't need to spend any more time than that.
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Pippin04
Member
10-26-2007
| Monday, November 19, 2007 - 5:50 am
I need help. I want to go green this Chritmas. Anyone know where I can get solar christmas lights? Has anyone tried these> Are they any good?
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Monday, November 19, 2007 - 6:16 am
I am with Cost on this. Good silver jewelry is just as sturdy if not more so than alot of your 'finer' jewelry, especially the plated cr@p.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Monday, November 19, 2007 - 8:10 am
And I'm with Costacat and Texannie about sterling silver. Years ago I had the season "color thing" done. I'm a winter = white metal. So I wear mostly silver. One platinum ring. (Platinum = $$$.) I have a few white gold pieces of jewelry. A jeweler recently told me that white gold is not really so bright and shiny, so it is plated with rhodium to give it the final sheen. You can have yellow gold rhodium plated. I have had an older pair of earrings and an antique ring that were originally yellow gold (which I don't wear) rhodium plated. Now after years of not wearing them, I am again. Though rhodium may (or may not) wear off, so may need re-plating. And a low karat gold is soft.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Monday, November 19, 2007 - 10:00 am
Just butting in to say gold is a soft metal, but low carat gold is harder than high carat gold, i.e. for a wedding ring that you'd wear everyday you'd want to choose a lower carat gold, 10 ct or less, compared to a necklace or something like that where you might choose a 24ct piece. Solar Christmas lights, if you put "solar christmas lights" into google products you get some cute ones. google search results
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Monday, November 19, 2007 - 11:15 am
I envy those of you who can wear silver. I can only wear hypo allergenic metals and gold or platinum. I get a bumpyrash with any kind of silver or metal. So to get the silver effect I wear white gold or platinum instead. DH says I have expensive allergies. I do! LOL.
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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Monday, November 19, 2007 - 11:44 am
DH has had several of his gold pieces coated with rhodium (including his wedding ring which he doesn't take off even when showering) and it has held up very, very well. He really likes it.
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Monday, November 19, 2007 - 12:00 pm
Mame, I have nasty metal allergies, too... my sister told me that one of her friends had the same problem, so bad the button on her jeans would leave a rash on her abdomen. Her friend started coating all her metal with clear nailpolish, and says she hasn't had a rash since. I tried it with a cheap silver ring I had, and no problems. Surgical steel is usually OK too for metal allergies, and gives the silver look cheaper than platinum.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Monday, November 19, 2007 - 1:25 pm
Yeah Karen, that sounds about right, I THINK I've had a few surgical steel backs and stud/posts on earrings over the years.
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Monday, November 19, 2007 - 4:01 pm
Julieboo let us know what you go with. I've always had good luck with silver but I'm not huge into jewelry. I find rings too resrictive so don't wear them much anymore. Necklaces give me more of a "free" feeling. Whatever. I'm sure you'll find something great! ...solar Christmas lights? Wow, I know nothing about that. Beats the fire hazard lights we strangled the tree with every year as a kid.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Monday, November 19, 2007 - 5:05 pm
I've had pierced ears since 1973. Only one pair of earrings have ever irritated my ears -- and it was only last year. They were a pair of silver Judith Jack posts. In the beginning they were my "go to" earrings. Wore them quite a lot. Then the holes got infected. So I cleaned my ears and the posts with alcohol. Didn't really help. I let my ears heal over a few weeks / couple months. Tried again. Same thing. Let them heal. Tried again. Same thing. That was many months ago. I'm thinking about trying one more time. Maybe this time will be OK?
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, November 19, 2007 - 7:42 pm
Pippin, I didnt even know such things existed, hopefully some of the helpful ppl here will come here with some ideas
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, November 19, 2007 - 8:04 pm
Pippin here are a couple places I found online. I've never heard of solar Christmas lights, but those are kinda cool. Some of them are kinda expensive for lights, but I'd think if you ran them alot all month long it'd probably be more than worth the price for them. siliconsolar solarilluminations shopping
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - 1:11 am
Julieboo, try www.ice.com
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Bearware
Member
07-12-2002
| Wednesday, November 21, 2007 - 5:13 pm
Color, I wouldn't do them again. It sounds like you've developed an allergy to some metal in them. I'm allergic to the nickel that is in almost all silver jewelry. The nail polish tip Karen gave does work, so you might try that, or get them plated at a jeweler if you're really attached.
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Monday, November 26, 2007 - 2:00 pm
http://www.luxe-design.com/pdfs/2007_WEBSHOP_Customizable_Charms_Sayings.pdf
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