3 wishes

I am a firm believer in wishes.  Do they always come true?  Nope.  Should they always come true?  Nope.  Are we happy when they do?  You better believe it.

My daughter loves to wish on stars.  I love driving down the road and hearing from the backseat, "Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight."  Her wishes range from being a princess to being a mermaid...oh to have those kinds of dreams.  I remember those days.  I loved dreaming about being a princess.  Fancy dresses and jewels, just waiting for my prince to come.  Glad to see she gets that from me.  :)

But nowadays my wishes are a bit more practical.  Oh don't get me wrong, I'd love to wish to be a princess, but reality just won't let me anymore.  The other day my daughter and I were making wish bracelets and she was smiling and telling me her three wishes (to be a princess of course was in there) and she looked up at me and said, "Momma, what are your wishes?"  For once I was really at a loss for words.  I felt bad that I didn't want to share them, mainly because they were for her. 

Gracie is 7, and a very sweet girl, but she has some very big problems.  For one, she doesn't really have many friends.  She has had behavioral problems, attitude problems, ADHD, and a major fear of everyone leaving her.  We've been trying to work on all of those things with a mix of her seeing a psychologist, medications, natural things, behavior modification, just to name a few.  So my 3 wishes are for her 1) to make friends, 2) get her behavior back on track, and 3)her to be happy again.

So what did I say to her?  I looked her in they eyes, put my hand on her cheek and whispered to her, "My wishes are for you, and if I told you what they were they might not come true.  So let me keep them here on these beads and when they come true I'll tell you."  To my surprise the child that normally chimes in "why" on just about anything you say sat there all quiet.  Then slowly a huge smile creeped up on her face and she said, "yes mommy, you keep it a secret okay?"  Bless  her lil' heart. 

So I made my wishes, tied on my bracelet, and now wait for it to fall off and hopefully come true.  :)  Now my question for you, and yes, I know I'm new so I might be the only one to read this (LOL), is what are your 3 three wishes????

So what is a DirtyGirl? ;)

Back when first trying to decided what to name my jewelry creations I kept coming across the same thing...the diamonds I was using were considered "dirty", meaning they were flawed.  They weren't the VVS or VS that you'd pay thousands of dollars for.  I mean lets face it, with the economy the way it is, why would you want to spend that kind of money on a diamond when you can spend less on the diamond and more on other things.  And the more and more I looked at these "dirty" diamonds, the more and more I saw the beauty in their flaws.  I remember the first one I ever bought....it was a stunning olive green almost opaque 2 carat round solitaire.  It had slight red splashes in it and the more and more I looked at it, the more depth I saw.  And it hit me...the flaws in the diamond were just like the flaws in myself.  My struggles with my weight, my monthly breakouts, my gray hairs that keep poking out randomly, my over talking...all the little things that maybe I don't particularly like about myself but all the things that make me up and make me different from everyone else.  And I saw that in reality, it is the flaws in the diamonds that make it so beautiful in it's own way, and therefore the flaws in me that make me beautiful in my own way.  So if the diamond is "dirty" then I guess I'm a "dirty" girl.   And from that was born DirtyGirlDiamonds. 
I admit that I do love that beautiful crisp, clear, colorless and nearly flawless diamond too but I still love the unique and flawed.  When I work with my suppliers on getting my stones I look for the ones that maybe no one else wants, the ones they consider too flawed.  And those are the ones I go after.  I can get them at better prices that way too.  One of my most favorite finds that I recently made into a pendant is the 1.95 carat rose cut chocolate diamond that I made into "Intoxicating Chocolate" pendant  (http://www.etsy.com/listing/84761838/enrapture-intoxicating-chocolate-genuine).  This diamond just amazes me.  It has yellow, gold, orange, deep brown, tan, white...so much uniqueness packed into one stone.  So many things that by a grading standard would be flaws, that make such an amazing stone.  Which is also why we say:  Unique...Like You!
So that is what a DirtyGirl is :)  And that is why I love what I do.  I hope you'll celebrate with me the things that make us unique...our flaws...and be a DirtyGirl (or DirtyBoy ;) too!