Diamonds!

I am so excited! I've been planning this for awhile, but it took me some time to get everything into place. I'm now going to be offering a line of conflict free diamond jewelry. This means those purchasing any items made from these diamonds can be certain their jewelry purchase is not financing in any way the bloodshed and mistreatment associated with so many stones on the market today. Additionally, the "rose cut diamond" is experiencing a resurgence in popularity. A "vintage" cut, combined with the new availability of stones previously considered low grade and undesirable, have created a uniquely beautiful look. Now, these diamonds are available in all sizes, shapes, and colors, with absolutely fantastic sparkle and the same hardness and shine as their much more expensive counterparts. As soon as I saw my first rose cut colored diamond, I fell in love. I knew I had to design my own line of jewelry using them, and so, here is the first:



Total weight is 1 carat, and I've set it in argentium sterling silver, with 14k gold accents. 



If you go to my Etsy store and select the listing, then click on the pictures, it blows them up bigger, and you can see the red feathering through the cream of the stone. All of the light reflecting off the stone in the pictures is sparkle when it moves. This particular ring is sized 9.25, and could be sized up to a 10, but more rings will be coming in the future. 

*cries*

I am posting this from my husband's iMac, since my Macbook Pro won't turn on. It chimes, and then the apple logo appears, with a spinning circle...and it spins, and spins, and spins, and then the apple logo changes to a "stop" symbol. So right now I'm trying to boot it in safe mode. It's been at least fifteen minutes. It appeared to be working, with the progress bar underneath the apple logo, but then that switched back to the spinning circle, which is still spinning, and spinning...

Next, I'll be trying to boot from the install disk. The good news is, I have AppleCare. the bad news is, it's been a really long time since I bothered to Time Machine. :( Oh, and I have a paper due for school tonight. And writing files that are only on my hard drive. *tries not to freak out*

I hope this problem gets resolved without losing everything on my computer and/or needing to send it off to Apple for weeks. 

Edit: I have tried resetting the PRAM or whatever, and that didn't work, so now I am trying to reset the SMC, which actually all of the symptoms sound very familiar, so *fingers crossed* this might be it.

F*ck

Disk Utility doesn't see my hard drive. That's probably a bad sign.

And we're calling it.

Well, that's it. According to those far more in the know than I (ie, the experts who hang around the apple discussion forums), it's either the HD, or the HD cable. Best case scenario, it's the cable and the data is still there waiting for me. If it's the HD, probably not recoverable, and I'm out whatever isn't backed up (which is a lot). AppleCare should pay for it all, at least. If they have the parts there, it could be an in-and-out Genius Bar fix. If not...I'm sending it off for repair. :(