Swooping into thrift shops searching for quality and collectible items. Selling on eBay as tam_gonza. Focusing on quilting, sewing, and upcycling fabric-related items.
The Writing Challenge prompt is "imagine that." Imagine that I have not worn a ring for nearly ten years, for various and sundry reasons. I have missed it so and have decided it was time, time for a ring. It was in part to celebrate completion of my one-year probation as a State employee and seemed an apt way to start 2015.
Oh, not just any ring but a pave of diamonds from the Le Vian Exotics line. I purchase fine jewelry in the days after Christmas when it is discounted to the lowest possible price. While it is still outrageously expensive, this piece was worth the delight it will bring me for years to come. I have fallen in the love with the ring. Irrevocably and totally in love. It is like Gollum from the Lord of the Rings.
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