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Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Saturday, November 17, 2007 - 7:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
SERATE: YOU ROCK!!! Thanks a million!!! :-)

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Saturday, November 17, 2007 - 7:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Can you provide links for the Zales one? I found the JCPenney one!

Serate
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08-21-2001

Saturday, November 17, 2007 - 7:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Zales personalized rings

Serate
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08-21-2001

Saturday, November 17, 2007 - 7:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
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.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Saturday, November 17, 2007 - 8:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Thanks again!!! You are a sweetie to help me look!

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Saturday, November 17, 2007 - 9:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
I wear sterling, and it's great.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Sunday, November 18, 2007 - 5:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
There's absolutely no reason you can't wear sterling silver. Whomever told you that is incorrect. Most of my daily jewelry is sterling.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Sunday, November 18, 2007 - 7:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Cool! Thanks EEyore and Costa!!!! I believe I googled it...using:
"difference between white gold, platinum and sterling silver"

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Sunday, November 18, 2007 - 7:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
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.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Sunday, November 18, 2007 - 8:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
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.

Pippin04
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10-26-2007

Monday, November 19, 2007 - 5:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pippin04 a private message Print Post    
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?

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Monday, November 19, 2007 - 6:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
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.

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Monday, November 19, 2007 - 8:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
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.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Monday, November 19, 2007 - 10:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
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

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Monday, November 19, 2007 - 11:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
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.

Beekindpleez
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07-18-2006

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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.

Karen
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09-07-2004

Monday, November 19, 2007 - 12:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
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.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

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Yeah Karen, that sounds about right, I THINK I've had a few surgical steel backs and stud/posts on earrings over the years.

Nyheat
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08-09-2006

Monday, November 19, 2007 - 4:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nyheat a private message Print Post    
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.

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Monday, November 19, 2007 - 5:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
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?

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Monday, November 19, 2007 - 7:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
Pippin, I didnt even know such things existed, hopefully some of the helpful ppl here will come here with some ideas

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, November 19, 2007 - 8:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
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

Chiliwilli
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09-04-2006

Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - 1:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chiliwilli a private message Print Post    
Julieboo, try www.ice.com

Bearware
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07-12-2002

Wednesday, November 21, 2007 - 5:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bearware a private message Print Post    
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.

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Monday, November 26, 2007 - 2:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
http://www.luxe-design.com/pdfs/2007_WEBSHOP_Customizable_Charms_Sayings.pdf