Well, Merry Christmas to me!  

Despite, or perhaps because of, all the mess going on in my life, my mother sent me an incredible Christmas present.  It was not, unfortunately, from DBL; but that she'd even try to find such a thing on her own?  Yipes!  I'm extremely impressed.

I had told her about the pendant I was building with the bloo Jay.  And we talked about an all white vs colored diamond pendant.  To refresh some memories, I was thinking along the lines of a detail from a Shaumet tiara owned by Lala Hasnas.  (detail 1)

Really quite impressive given that Mom isn't into bling.  She told me she wanted the pink because of PANK birthday cakes from the past (there's a whole 'nother story there), and a heart because, well, because.

Blown away.  Snockered in my snox.  I'm sitting here with her check in my pocket for the family Christmas, and she goes and does this on top of it all.  Been crying all morning again.  Good tears this time.

 

Actually, I should have brought on the Christmas can can dancers. After all, not many times of the year they can be used.....

Oh my, I am sooooooooooo 




I think that is so sweet. You Deserve it, and like you said, Every cloud has a Pank lining. 

Nailed it in one, Squigs!  It is a bitty Pank Thang.  That is just too east Texas!  LOL

Guess I better get it in the mail to David, pronto, before I lose it.  (At least once it gets to DBL, I know it'll be safe snuggled up with the blooJay until I can buy the 3rd diamond and get it all set.)   We got word today that our rental agreement on the pretty little house down the street has been approved.  Time to start packing.  Again. 

WOW- that's a cool stone bloocat!!
Congratulations!!!
We'll have to spank mommy because I hate to think that she went outside the family to get something- but we'd love to set her and care for her for you.

You can spank Mommy (ma'am, yes ma'am, MRS. GENERAL, MA'AM!!!)  If you DARE - I sure wouldn't.  She scares the bejeepers outta me and has done so for more than 50 years!

But yes, you will be doing this piece, of course, David!  I will be relying on you to find the perfect yellow asscher to sit between Pank Thang and the blooJay, in the not too distant (knock on wood) future.  Hopefully with a little non-bloo fluorescence - like yellow or white? (knock on wood again...)

Now we might have to sugar coat that Thang since it's so tiny, but I'd truly rather just have her in PANK gold claws.  I'd want the asscher closer in size to the widest point of the pear, or something  like, with maybe either yellow claws or a slender bezel aroung its girdle.  The pear in white gold claws.  I'd like the 3 diamonds to be somewhat flexible, like 3 links in a tennis bracelet, where you can't really see how the stones are actually hooked together.   All over 18k yellow chain with DBTY in pink-yellow-white diamond series down to the heart.  OK, so maybe that's over the top.  I'll just have to take it day by day until I can become a productive citizen again.    But this is where I'm sort of driving towards....

I came back to get another look and re-read the posts.  That is one diamond.  Congratulations and wear it in good health.

That's awesome!  A pink bezel would be stunning, but then again, it'll be beautiful no matter how it's set.  Congrats!

Mikla

PANK.  Well, it's nothing to do with CDI or DBL, but long ago in a galaxy far, far away....

Like 20 years plus when my parents first moved to TX from the east coast,  I was headed down to their new place to spend a week with them over my birthday and Mom had ordered a cake from the local grocery store.  Now, back east, you order a birthday cake with pink roses, you get pastel pink, relatively realistic colored roses.  Not so in San Antonio.  You get PANK roses.  Screaming fuschia and watermelon PANK.  You can't miss 'em, they're so extreme they practically glow in the dark.

Poor Mom was mortified when she picked the cake up.  I thought it was an absolute hoot, and after a couple glasses of wine, so did she.  So for years after, no matter who's birthday it was, even my Dad's,  the cake had to have PANK roses.  Last I heard she was contemplating PANK roses for my Dad's 100th this coming April.  LOL

Of course, we learned that you don't do the cake kicking contest with PANK roses - there's so much color in them there's no way to get it out of the carpet, the placemats, or anything else it touches.  We do that with chocolate cake, unfrosted, after that first year of PANK.  We've also moved it out doors.  Da grandbabies are too big (now in their late twenties, early thirties, and they all have good kicking range for field goals.

A pink tutu for PANK THANG?  Hmmmm, if OMC and Mikla both suggest it, sounds like a plan if we need to boost her size.

...and D, I know you're kidding.  It was just the visual - somebody trying to spank Mrs. General.  I was rolling on the floor!  But she really is an awesome person and a killer Mom, especially since I'm not 15 anymore. 

Okay that is so funny and so sweet.  I've seen some of those PANK roses here.  One of the bakeries here has day glow bright colors.  You ask for pink and you get PANK! 

I intentionally avoid their bakery because of that.  Though I do like the way the cakes taste.

Oh and in the southern part of my state you'd think you were in the deep south.  Probably why I can feel the pank thang so wonderfully.  My aunt even has a cute little drawl that makes me smile

Don't hold too high hopes on that one. The inscription is tiny and it's on the girdle, which is the best place to hold the diamond...

But who cares. What matters is what HankyPanky looks without a microscope. 

She did very well indeed, I'd say!