Pretty Pretty!

I’m feel­ing acquis­i­tive. Dammit, Sam, you should NOT have got­ten me hooked on eBay!

My birth­stone is topaz. I’ve NEVER liked it. Come on, it’s ORANGE! I do not like any shade of orange, peri­od. No, it isn’t gold—it’s orange. (And if I want to wear a gold stone, I wear amber, which is mag­nif­i­cent.) No, smoky topaz isn’t better—that’s brown (blah). Blue topaz (which I think must be syn­thet­ic, as I’d nev­er heard of it ’til after CZs came onto the mar­ket) is a wimpy blue.

But THIS is a pret­ty topaz. This I’d wear:

Isn’t that lovely?

The pur­ple stones are tan­zan­ite, which is what I had put in my high school class ring.