Missed out the ear shot of the big hoops.

Here is a small family shot of some of my earrings...you can see some pearl studs there including my golden pearls and peacock pearl earrings.

Here are my amethyst briolettes

And leverback diamond circles

My asscher earrings

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beautiful earrings!

Thank you for taking all those pictures. I particularly love the marquise flower ones.

Thanks, everyone.

WM, the marquise are one of my favourites. They're really very versatile and seem to go with everything.

On a separate but sort of related note...while I was posting these pictures just before lunch, I felt my office building sway, thought I was hallucinating since it was close to lunch time and then it swayed again. It turned out to be tremours from a 6.3 quake in Sumatra. We evacuated the building and then came back after lunch. Then we felt the quake again around 2pm (Singapore time)...my company closed the office but fool that I am, I went for a conference call at my client's office - where they also felt the tremours but did not send everyone home and they're always harping about safety but when it counts, they continue working because they were told the building was safe. Well, Singapore is not in an earthquake zone so I don't think our buildings are constructed to withstand any quakes. Was then stuck from 3-8pm with a call with India. On hindsight, I'm really quite upset with the client and felt that I should have just left and gone home! I'm feel like such an idiot for staying.

Fortunately for me, we didn't feel any more tremours after the second roung but so far some 70 people were killed in the quake, so all in all, a sobering day and sad day.

I agree...incidents like that remind me of how blessed I am in my life and family. I think my client really needs to sort out their workplace safety. The biggest irony is that they start off each meeting talking about safety and when reality beckons, they ignore it.

Well...I'm lucky nothing happened but we need to pray/help those people in Indonesia. They were badly hit by the tsunami, bombings, earthquakes and now another earthquake.

Maria

Gosh that's awful DiaDiva.  I'm glad you are okay.  I think in situations like that, you need put your foot down and do what feels right.  I often think back to 9-11 when so many people went back to work after being told their tower was safe.

I experienced one earthquake in my life and to say I freaked out would be an understatement.  Standing in the jewellers I worked for with a colleague, everything starts rumbling, the lights and pictures on the wall are shaking violently and I'm standing there all confused.  I'm thinking that's one massive truck going by.  After a few seconds, I look at my co-worker and I go, "Ian?  What is that?"  He looks me straight in the face and, almost grinning, says, "That would be an earthquake!"  Well I FREAKED!  I started screaming.  I'm talking, hear me at the other end of the mall screaming.  I dragged Ian by both forearms under a doorway and I had him so wigged out by this point that he was screaming back at me.  I think I cut off his circulation in both arms.

The next day I arrived in the store to see Ian under the doorway with the entire staff huddled round as he told them of my meltdown........I didn't live it down for quite some time!

Anyway, I hope you have no more aftershocks and I will certainly offer up some words for those affected.

I'm glad you're OK Maria. Earthquakes can be so scary. I've been through several (living in the West Coast). My heart goes out to the victims.

  that is a beautiful earring collection. 

Just feels like Indonesia can't cop a break lately......thankfully you were ok DiaD, I can't imagine how scary it would be to feel an earthquake - even the aftershocks!

Now on to happier topics - your earrings are beautiful!!  I really like those briolettes and the lovely marquise flower earrings - soo sweet!

Ummm I'll take them all!! I wish!!! I really love the hoops as I want a pair like that some day!!

And again your marquise earrings were once an earring project that I had in mind until I bought yellow studs... Might have to revisit that project again:)

Thanks for sharing!!! Gosh, your collection is just phenomenal!!!

Now about that quake? Gosh that has to be scary!!! I'm glad that you're ok, and I hope that those who were hit directly are ok:(

Maria! OMG!  I thought your ring collection was stunning, but these are equally gorgeous!  I especially love the marquise earrings and the hoops.  Just  !

Sorry you had to endure an earthquake, but I'm glad you got through it safely.  They're awful.  I live in Southern California and lived through the Northridge earthquake.  Very scary indeed.  Our house was very damaged, but luckily we were not hurt.  Earthquake, tornados, hurricanes, floods - they're all awful.

Er.........WHAT!!!  I thought I was safe from that stuff here!!!  Okay, you have me freaked OUT!  I'm standing under the doorway to type this!  

Gosh DiaDiva - the sparklies never end!  What a lucky girl!