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October 2016 Moms
kmalls
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AW thread: show off your bling!
kmalls
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In an attempt to get the board a little more active today, let's have a super AW thread! Show off your favorite jewelry, and interpret "favorite" however you like. It can be flashy or sentimental, it just has to be your favorite. Bonus points for a good story behind it!
Re: AW thread: show off your bling!
he ended up getting me the one ring I saved a pic of, he never went in my phone and no one else even knew. that's how I knew he was perfect for me LOL
Sorry if if the picture is huge. I'm on mobile. And also, I was about to give DD a bath so ignore the monkey towel and bubbles in the background
edited because of words.
The ring had to have an entirely new band put on it tho, so it wasn't ready in time for Christmas. At the end of January I finally admitted I knew about it and very shyly asked what the hold up was. I was worried he was second guessing himself. He said it was ready but he was working on the getting the cash to pay for it. He was struggling at the time and I wasn't, so I gave him the cash, told him my money was his money, and we got engaged just 3 months after we started dating. We were married a year and a half later and I added this cute little band to compliment, but never outshine, the ring my husband picked for me.
i I also love how these posts show everyone's personal style.
side note: mazoezi is the word exercise in swahili and that is pretty much how I always read your name.... hah
My second favorite piece of jewelry is my "push present" diamond ring that I wear on my right hand, but today is literally the one day I don't have it on to show!
Mine would also be my engagement/weddings rings. DH picked the engagement ring out himself, and I had no clue.
He asked me Christmas morning, after being together for 7 years. He is really anal about blinds facing the wrong way. When I woke up and walked into the living room, they were facing the wrong way. He was making breakfast and asked me to fix them. This is what it said on the other side:
Fell in love: Dec 2005 // Married: Feb 9, 2013
Little Miss Rosalie Harper--Born Jan 9th, 2014
Don't judge my messy desk, I'm in discovery and trial hell.
Me: 28 DH: 27
PCOS baby due October 09, 2016
Beta #1: 22.5
Beta #2: 74
TTC#2: BFP: 8-23-15 MMC: 10-29-15
DD 2: 9-15-16
DD 3: 9-16-17
FI is super traditional, and despite us getting pregnant with LO before we were engaged, he refused to buy a ring to propose with that was less than half of his monthly wages. We just couldn't afford it at the time, and I couldn't allow him to do that while we had other things that needed paid at the time. So, one day while we were at the laundry mat, he put a quarter in one of the jewelry machines and came back with one that had my birth stone and told me he at least wanted SOMETHING on my finger from him, and even though it was just 25 cent costume jewelry, it was beautiful and special to me and I loved it.
Obviously my new favorite it my engagement ring, which also has a neat story because he proposed to me in the dentist office while I was having my teeth pulled! He was laughing at me because half of my face was numb and limp, and the nurses told him he was being mean. He said "I'm not being mean, I love her no matter what, as a matter of fact I'll show you how much I love her", he got down on one knee and proposed to me right then and there, and after I cried for a minute and avvepted, he kissed me right on my limp, bloody mouth ♡
My other favorite is this huge, tacky, tahitian black pearl he bought me. He overheard me talking about loving black pearls, and bought me one. He couldn't tell from the picture how huge it really was until it arrived, but I love it regardless for the thought! It is AW jewelry to the extreme, but I wear it casually anyway haha
I love my wedding set, but my most special piece is a ring that was my grandmother's and was also worn by my great and great-great grandmother. I got it after my grandmother passed away (right before we found out about our baby). it's sentimental value is priceless. (Sorry if picture is huge..on mobile)
DH: 34
Married: May 2011
TTC #1: May 2015
DS: 10/20/2016
TTC #2: June 2019
#2 EDD: 2/20/2020
The one on the left is my maternal grandmother's engagement diamond surrounded by the diamonds from the watch my grandfather gave her on her wedding day. My aunt had them reset into a gaudy pave piece my grandmother never wore, and I also didn't like, so when my mother gave the ring to me about 12 years ago, I had it reset into a custom setting.
The one on the right is the ring my father gave my mother the day I was born. It's so 70's and extremely gaudy and I hardly ever wear it, but I can't bring myself to change it. My father passed away in 1999.
Baby GIRL born 9/16/201
BFP! EDD 8/1/2019 CP 4w2d
PCOS baby due October 09, 2016
Beta #1: 22.5
Beta #2: 74
I also have a necklace that was my 2 year dating a anniversary present, but one of the stones fell out and I haven't been able to get it fixed yet.
This is the Badali Nenya - it was designed from the description of the Lord of the Rings books, before the movies came out. While we are fantasy fans, I picked it more because I love the leaves than the LOTR association.
DH picked this out all by himself & it's very, very special to me!
Me: 32 & DH: 37
BFP #2: 2/8/16 - EDD 10/20/16
IT'S A BOY!!!!
DS Born 10/16/16
DH did great without any direction.
TTC only since Dec 2015. I had some weight to get off. Been working hard in the gym for over a year.
BFP 02-15-16 with our first
IT'S A BOY!!!
He proposed to me at Disneyland! I was there with a girlfriend and he had it all planned out. Her husband and DH are best friends and planned this whole elaborate surprise. I had no idea they were there too. My friend and I were walking around and I see her husband quickly walking towards me with a video camera and they were all saying "Turn around!" then there was my husband down on one knee! BUT his friend didn't hit record so we don't have the footage lol. We have pics though! Apparently I kept ruining the plan because I kept suggesting rides away from the proposal spot. Finally my friend was like, "THIS is my favorite ride, PLEASE can we go"... It was a kiddy ride, so I was like - "ehhhh... yeah... ok." Looking back I guess she was acting kind of weird, but I was totally oblivious.*** Sorry the pic is huge!
BFP #1: 7/15/15, SB: 11/14/15
Rainbow baby DS born 9/29/16!!
BFP #3 3/26/18 | Due 12/3/18
I waited 7 years for this ring, so it's definitely my favorite bling. My husband proposed while we were in Kauai sitting on the beach under a blue moon. It was perfect. And the wedding band belonged to my grandmother, who I miss dearly.
I have a feeling this pic is huge to people who aren't mobile. I'm sorry! This is my engagement ring, which I am absolutely in love with. We picked out the setting together. She had a few picked out but wanted me to love it so asked for my final opinion. Wedding band irritated my finger (allergy to white gold) so we will be getting a platinum one sometime in the near future to match it.
Edit to add- we went to the store together to shop. I picked out my favourite three but made it pretty obvious This was my absolute favourite, though any 3 of them would of been awesome! I just didn't want any claws.
Beautiful rings ladies