Married Again!

Last week my husband realized the diamond fell out of his wedding band. What was most surprising about it all is that he not only noticed it, but actually found the diamond in the house right in front of the refrigerator. I was ready to have the stone of an old earring replace the diamond in his ring. So we found a jeweler in Alexandria to repair it. In the meantime, his finger looked very strange without his wedding band, and I couldn't let him walk around like that! So I found some old Christmas ribbon that shined multicolored, and cut a piece to the right size. He good heartedly wore it the last week - and it even looked quite interesting if you didn't gaze at it too hard. So today we picked up the real thing, and it is all shiny and new. They did a nice job building it up to keep the stone in place. It's so shiny you can see your reflection. We don't have a lot of jewelry in our household. Regardless, this is one piece of jewelry that must be repaired! It means a lot more than just a ring in his finger. 

The Almost Lost Diamond

I don't know how he found it, but when my husband said the other day that he lost the diamond from his wedding band, I was already figuring on having to replace it. But he is very dogged about finding anything when it is lost with usually positive results. The last time was when I lost a very small earring. He managed to find it in the vacuum cleaner. Just the idea that he noticed it when he did - because it could have happened anywhere - was a miracle. So he started looking around the house and there it was, an inch in front of the refrigerator in the kitchen. Well, he couldn't go around with a big hole in his ring, so we had to find a jewelry repair shop outside of Washington, thinking it might be cheaper (?). My husband hates everything about jewelers. And we have saved a lot of money not buying jewelry. The only jewelry I ever wear are two diamond studs with screw backs so they will never fall off, and a simple wedding band like his. So we made our way to Belle View Jewelers after lunch. It will cost about $200 to get the thing repaired, including a shine to boot. It won't be ready until Wednesday, so he will be walking around with a dent in his finger until then. It really looks weird and I don't much like it. Maybe I can think of something to use in the meantime? Any ideas?