Remember how I was drooling over larimar and some larimar rings? Well, I did try to order the Marah Lago ones but they wouldn't ship to Singapore. Some stupid USPS regulation that prohibits jewellery from being sent here via post. So I ordered 2 rings direct from a Dominican Republic seller late August - and they took a darned long time to arrive. I thought they'd been lost and had already emailed the seller to report that I hadn't received them after a month. But the postman finally rang my doorbell with them yesterday morning and I immediately wore one out when I went to do my hair!

Here's a pic - the 2 rings I got are actually the same design anyway, just different sizes so I can wear them on different fingers. Yes, I am that crazy about it. The out-of-this-world colour is something like I've never seen, not even on the prettiest Sleeping Beauty turquoise (which tends to look flat anyway). There are subtle markings on the stone that give it a mysterious depth and an unexpected organic feel. I'm seriously considering buying a strand to make stuff with but, apart from being quite costly, it's not a very well-known stone. I don't know how it would be received. It's definitely harder, though not impossible, to sell pricier items. I could always keep the pieces for myself though. LOL. I need to have job benefits too, right?

See, this is something I struggle with sometimes. I normally buy stones I like and make things that I like from them. I don't really bother much about what people might or might not buy, or whether they have the same taste as I do. (That's why each person who tells me they like my work is giving me a little self-esteem boost, and I'm especially grateful for that!) I'm afraid I don't make a very good businessperson after all. I mean, I can separate very clearly what my head and heart are telling me, but usually the head consciously lets the heart win. I wouldn't be able to answer to myself otherwise. Am I even making sense??