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Friday, December 17, 2010

12 Days of Christmas with Kelly & Nancy: Day 9

A big THANK YOU to everyone who left all the wonderful comments about Day 7. In all honesty, I’ve been a bit apprehensive about going to Budapest for Christmas. Mainly because I really don’t know much about it, other than it’s in Hungary and paprika comes from Hungary! But reading all your positive comments has made me feel less apprehensive and more excited! And a special thank you to Sally from Mes Amies and her mom Kate from Manningroad who are in Budapest right now :-) They’re having a great time so far, and have told me that I’ll love it there. Yay! Can’t wait to check out the Christmas Market and the home decor stores!

If you missed Day 8, be sure to head over to Marcus Design to see the eight colourful things on Nancy’s wishlist. And while you’re there, you can catch up on Days 2, 4, and 6 too :-) So what’s up next? Day 9, of course!

♪ ♫ On the ninth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me… ♪ ♫Oh yeah, I just love yummy chocolate diamonds! They’re so…. well, yummy! Seriously, if it’s chocolate, I’m all over it :-)

If you missed any of our days so far, just click the links below to see what else is on our wishlists:

Don’t forget to check out Day 10 tomorrow at Marcus Design! And then Sunday is my last day to share my wishlist with you. And I have to say, Day 11 was a tough one! Can you guess what I chose?

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Chocolate + diamonds: A girl’s two best friends

Is there any woman who doesn’t love chocolate and diamonds? I think not! So what could be better than a chocolate diamond?

No, not THAT kind of diamond – this kind of diamond. {14K White Gold Smoke Topaz Diamond and Brown Diamond Ring}

How yummy is that?! I’ll tell you how yummy – VERY yummy! Did you know that brown diamonds are the most common colour variety of natural diamonds? Up until the 1980s, brown diamonds were used mainly for industrial purposes – they were considered worthless for jewelry. {Lost the source – I’ll keep looking!}The Argyle Diamond Mine was developed in Australia in 1986. The Argyle mine produces 35 million carats (that’s 7,000 kgs or 15,432 lbs) of diamonds a year. 80% of those diamonds are brown. {Le Vian ZAG 102 Medallion Chocolate Diamond Pave Watch}

The marketing strategy for brown diamonds changed in the 1980s, and they became popular for use in jewelry – although they’re usually less expensive than other colour groups. {Left: Brown and white diamond eternity ring Right: Le Vian 14ct white gold amethyst chocolate and white ring}