(Originally written Aug. 19, 2005)

We're still working on getting the right centre stone. When we were in the shop, we'd found a heart-shaped ruby in the right size, but not the right colour, so we found another large, pear-shaped ruby that had the right colour for comparison. So they've been trying to track down the perfect ruby. The next batch wasn't anywhere close. The centre stone is the comparison colour.

A week or so later, he got in some other stones from NY. Now we're getting somewhere! The top left and bottom right still have that pinkish hue. Upon brightening up the image, so did the third one down on the left. The bottom left one seems to have the nicest shape, but I have a feeling that's just due to the angle of the stone in the photo. So it looks like it's the top right, bottom left, or second from the top on the left. Any of those look fine to me! Steve is replying today to tell him to use whichever one of those three is best.

Three weeks... :)