PearlyQueen
Liverpool Supporter
Well since Xmas was more or less cancelled for me this year, I decided to have a nice big delivery from Rocks and I could open it on Xmas day to cheer myself up. I got kind of carried away with the Xmas spirit though, and the delivery came in a box 3 foot cubed, lol, what an embarrassing thing that was! It wasn't easy to leave it alone for two whole days, but I managed it - and the results definitely cheered up my Xmas!
I've been intrigued by this for a while - but I'm still not convinced by carnelian, and I think that this one is going back.
This one is a bit of a different colour from my usual, but I think I like it! I have the design in blue topaz, and it's nice on. I suspect this one stays.
This was a bit of a risky buy - I returned the matching earrings for being horrible! However, the necklace looked much better. I was actually a bit disappointed when I tried this one on - until I realised that I disliked the lack of a central focal point. Tied the two middle drops together, et voila - pretty as a picture and staying!!!
I'm now undecided about this one. I love the colour of the pearls, think the leather cord is quite funky, but I'm still not sure. It's a bit long, and only sits right when I adjust it with the loop right up agains the pearls. At first I was convinced I'd keep it, but this photo is actually helping to put me off!
Very pretty, maybe a bit similar to some other bits I have but it was sooo cheap I can't help but keep it!!! The colours are fabulous in real life. Does anyone know if the silver bits are the real deal in these bracelets?
Sadly these earrings to match my necklace failed the weight test for me, so they have to go back unopened. Boohoo.
Wow wow wow wow wow... I love this!!! I knew I would though... Just stunning, what a big look!
This is much prettier than I expected, I adore it! The pearl colours are more pastel pink than I thought they would be from the picture - and better. Love the lurex cord too, lovely and soft. Yum.
I'm not the world's biggest fan of turquoise but I loved the design of this and decided to give it a shot. Sadly, this turquoise is not very nice, so I'm returning it - would be good if Rocks opted to do this design in some other stones though, as it's sooooo pretty!
My big extravagance from the haul was this apatite and zircon ring, which I've coveted for some time. I won some money just before Xmas and decided to blow it on this one. It's a lovely design and it makes the most of the stone.
Yeah, I know, it looks like teeth...
At first that put me off, but it's grown on me. Those teeth are fabulously irridescent, and I really like the pearls too! Now staying, despite an initial berth on the returns pile.
How pretty is this???? It's too bloody long for me, but I found a complicated knot affair at the back:
keeps it on my wrist. So once again my ingenuity (lol) has enabled me to spend more money!!! Honestly, the stone is amazing, I was gutted till I came up with the cunning solution...
This is every bit as nice as the purple one above. I do think they're a bit dense on pearlage, I like a bit of skin to show through, but they were end of line bargain basement prices, I really can't bear to part with them!!!
As with the matching necklace at the start, I just don't like it. Bye bye.
I'm still undecided on this one - it's a pretty stone, but I have some very similar things already. Lovely colour though, I'm still tempted!!!
My photo does this no justice - I think it's one of my favourite items from this delivery. Very twinkly indeed, and a lovely shape. Yum.
Another I'm undecided about is this green amethyst. It was definitely staying for a while, but then I went off it - especially compared to the concave cut green am bracelet above. Very low price though, so still thinking about it.
More mystic blue, this one was the one I chose originally, but it disappeared off the website before I could buy, presumably sold out. I got the other two on the rebound... I imagine I got a return here. Love it, what can I say...?
I also snagged the peach one... Again, low cost, lovely pearls, no chance it's going!
A bit like the "tooth" bracelet, this was originally going back, but it's grown on me a lot. Loads of garnet and silver for the money, I think it's staying now.
Additionally, I got a celtic cross in amber for hubby's Xmas (he loved it loads, couldn't photograph coz he's wearing it to work today) and two of the mystic blue ring in the same design as the green amethyst one. Rocks refunded the one I returned last time instead of replacing it - but I got these for much less money so actually worked out quite well. So low I bought one for me as well as the replacement for my friend.
Any advice on the bits I'm not so sure of would be appreciated! Really thought I'd return about half of this lot, that's about normal for me, this was a major triumph of a haul in comparison - especially considering how much of it was bought because of bargain prices rather than because I really wanted it!!! CC is not a happy bunny as refund will be rather smaller than expected!
Took ages to do the pics today, in a freezing cold garden, I need to defrost now!!! Excuse the nails, they're having their annual polish free week, but they always look ghastly due to my psoriasis damage on them, hence I never go without polish most of the year. I also took the chance to chop them down to the bone!
It's been epic...lol
I've been intrigued by this for a while - but I'm still not convinced by carnelian, and I think that this one is going back.
This one is a bit of a different colour from my usual, but I think I like it! I have the design in blue topaz, and it's nice on. I suspect this one stays.
This was a bit of a risky buy - I returned the matching earrings for being horrible! However, the necklace looked much better. I was actually a bit disappointed when I tried this one on - until I realised that I disliked the lack of a central focal point. Tied the two middle drops together, et voila - pretty as a picture and staying!!!
I'm now undecided about this one. I love the colour of the pearls, think the leather cord is quite funky, but I'm still not sure. It's a bit long, and only sits right when I adjust it with the loop right up agains the pearls. At first I was convinced I'd keep it, but this photo is actually helping to put me off!
Very pretty, maybe a bit similar to some other bits I have but it was sooo cheap I can't help but keep it!!! The colours are fabulous in real life. Does anyone know if the silver bits are the real deal in these bracelets?
Sadly these earrings to match my necklace failed the weight test for me, so they have to go back unopened. Boohoo.
Wow wow wow wow wow... I love this!!! I knew I would though... Just stunning, what a big look!
This is much prettier than I expected, I adore it! The pearl colours are more pastel pink than I thought they would be from the picture - and better. Love the lurex cord too, lovely and soft. Yum.
I'm not the world's biggest fan of turquoise but I loved the design of this and decided to give it a shot. Sadly, this turquoise is not very nice, so I'm returning it - would be good if Rocks opted to do this design in some other stones though, as it's sooooo pretty!
My big extravagance from the haul was this apatite and zircon ring, which I've coveted for some time. I won some money just before Xmas and decided to blow it on this one. It's a lovely design and it makes the most of the stone.
Yeah, I know, it looks like teeth...
At first that put me off, but it's grown on me. Those teeth are fabulously irridescent, and I really like the pearls too! Now staying, despite an initial berth on the returns pile.
How pretty is this???? It's too bloody long for me, but I found a complicated knot affair at the back:
keeps it on my wrist. So once again my ingenuity (lol) has enabled me to spend more money!!! Honestly, the stone is amazing, I was gutted till I came up with the cunning solution...
This is every bit as nice as the purple one above. I do think they're a bit dense on pearlage, I like a bit of skin to show through, but they were end of line bargain basement prices, I really can't bear to part with them!!!
As with the matching necklace at the start, I just don't like it. Bye bye.
I'm still undecided on this one - it's a pretty stone, but I have some very similar things already. Lovely colour though, I'm still tempted!!!
My photo does this no justice - I think it's one of my favourite items from this delivery. Very twinkly indeed, and a lovely shape. Yum.
Another I'm undecided about is this green amethyst. It was definitely staying for a while, but then I went off it - especially compared to the concave cut green am bracelet above. Very low price though, so still thinking about it.
More mystic blue, this one was the one I chose originally, but it disappeared off the website before I could buy, presumably sold out. I got the other two on the rebound... I imagine I got a return here. Love it, what can I say...?
I also snagged the peach one... Again, low cost, lovely pearls, no chance it's going!
A bit like the "tooth" bracelet, this was originally going back, but it's grown on me a lot. Loads of garnet and silver for the money, I think it's staying now.
Additionally, I got a celtic cross in amber for hubby's Xmas (he loved it loads, couldn't photograph coz he's wearing it to work today) and two of the mystic blue ring in the same design as the green amethyst one. Rocks refunded the one I returned last time instead of replacing it - but I got these for much less money so actually worked out quite well. So low I bought one for me as well as the replacement for my friend.
Any advice on the bits I'm not so sure of would be appreciated! Really thought I'd return about half of this lot, that's about normal for me, this was a major triumph of a haul in comparison - especially considering how much of it was bought because of bargain prices rather than because I really wanted it!!! CC is not a happy bunny as refund will be rather smaller than expected!
Took ages to do the pics today, in a freezing cold garden, I need to defrost now!!! Excuse the nails, they're having their annual polish free week, but they always look ghastly due to my psoriasis damage on them, hence I never go without polish most of the year. I also took the chance to chop them down to the bone!
It's been epic...lol
