With Youngest & Partner getting engaged it got me thinking about engagement rings and how personal they are. This is the new ring, below, and it is very pretty. Mine was designed by DH and has a diamond in the centre with a ruby each side of it and is set in 18ct gold band with the stone settings being white gold.  It is in fact at the moment being repaired as I have broken a claw on one of the rubies and did not want to lose the stone.  It is now thirty seven years old and over the years I have had it cleaned and maintained but when we took it in to the jewellers they said they could repair the claws or actually take all the stones out and re-set them completely.  This worried me because obviously it would be my ring and the stones would just be re-set but I was concerned that it would look exactly the same and I was assured by the Jewellers it would.

The above ring is Meghan Markle’s when she became engaged to Prince Harry and it has been reported today that she has altered this ring for the fourth time since this original one above!  Apparently she has had the band changed from the plain gold to one which is much thinner with diamonds in it and the central stone has changed from this shape to one which is now an emerald cut and apparently a few other alterations have been made, picture below.

However this is not the ring she got engaged with!  Would you change your ring so much that it does not resemble the ring you were first given?  I know I wouldn’t.  I do know of other celebs who have kept the original engagement ring but then had others bought for them, since the marriage, which have bigger or different coloured stones.  Apparently Victoria Beckham has fifteen engagement rings varying from diamonds to rubies, sapphires, emeralds and a moonstone!  Nice I suppose if you can afford it but again it is not the one you got engaged with!

I will have to get some pictures of mine when it is back having been repaired.  Talking of repairs a clock which was inherited by DH from his family which sits in our sitting room, is off being repaired at the moment.  He took it in to the Clock makers in Ashbourne before Christmas and we have not heard anything from them since so we are hoping that it is not so bad and they can fix it!  It strikes the hour and the half hour and I really miss hearing it strike during the day, it is so quiet without it.

Today is home jobs day and tomorrow I have to go to the Dentist in the morning to get a small filling!  I hate going to the Dentist at the best of times and especially don’t like getting a filling but decided I should get it done as soon as!  At the weekend DH is out all weekend at the County Swimming Championships so I have two whole days to begin the two quilts I need to get done for May this year!  Our weather over the last few weeks has been dull and grey although we did see the sun a little bit yesterday and it has been very cold with the odd day of rain thrown in for good measure!  Hey ho, hopefully Spring will soon be here.

Have a wonderful weekend you lovely lot. 

Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco xx