PB - Shiny Rocks

Emeralds
Rubies
Sapphires

Tanzanite - but it's very "soft" so I can't wear it all the time...

Diamonds.

I like peridot (my birthstone- its what I have in my engagement ring!)
I also like sapphires and rubies and emeralds
After seeing the movie Blood Diamond I don't want to ever buy a diamond....

My grandparents are jewelers and I have a geology degree, so I love ALL pretty rocks!!
My favorites are stones that come in lots of different colors, so you can find unusual colors or unique combinations. I love natural diamond crystals (uncut with octahedral shape), garnets in every color (orange, deep green, purples), sphalerite in burgundy, sapphires in deep ocean blue-green, tourmaline with rainbows of color, fluorite in green and purple bands, celestite in shimmery powder blue, lepidolite like lavender fish scales...love love love!!!
One of my favorite pieces of jewelry has a slice of a meteorite. I love wearing something that was formed at the same time as the birth of our solar system! A little physical connection to the infinite :)

I LOVE emeralds. I also really like peridot. (I love green!) Sapphires and amethyst are also very pretty. I don't care for diamonds, but I do love my engagement ring. pretty much the only diamond ring I have ever liked!

pearls and sapphires. Well, and aquamarines.
I wear my pearls always---stopped changing my earrings out to match my outfit a long, long time ago... pearls go with everything. My 11 yr old daughter sticks with her pearls mostly, too. :)

Sapphire is my birthstone. I have a beautiful sapphire and diamond pendant necklace that my aunt gave to me. She did not have any children, and we share our birth month. She sent it to my mom to give to me, and when I was miserable with non-stop nausea with my 2nd pregnancy, she presented it to me. Really added to the sentimental value.
I only stopped wearing that every single day, because my husband got me a Mother's Day necklace with a floating heart and the kids' birthstones. I get lots of compliments on it. But the stones are not really my favorites.

Aquamarine. It is my birthstone plus I have always thought it was beautiful.

I am really not big into jewelry but what I have tends to have Aquamarines in them. Well my wedding ring is all diamonds but I am traditional like that. :) Wana know how much it costs??!! :p I kid I kid!!

Opal - it is my birthstone (October)
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I love aquamarines. love the blue!!
I really can't stand ruby. blech.
I also really love pearls.

Peridot (my birthstone), diamonds, rubies, amethyst .... Heck, if it's shiny and pretty, I like it!

I'm not real into stones, but I like metals.
But for stones, I like:
Opals
Ceylon Sapphire (I like the lighter blue ones)
Apple Jade
Water Jade
Amber
Rubies, rough cut
Emeralds, rough cut

I'm not real into pearls.

Amber is my favorite stone to wear.
Fire opals...opal is my birthstone and I'm also a fiery Scorpio.
Moonstone is so pretty and calming for me.

I am sooooo not a jewelry person. That being said, I find diamonds to be the most beautiful stones. My birthstone is Ruby...hate it.

Opals and moonstones(or labradorite, I've had these earrings in for about two or three years now) , garnets. All favorites. Pearls, too.

I love pearls too!
Diamonds, Onyx, sapphires, amethyst

I love all diamonds especially colored diamonds fave being yellow and black diamonds.

I also like blue topaz

Emeralds (my birthstone) and tanzanite. Not together of course).

I like them all, but I only wear diamonds.

Amethyst, Sapphire, Obsidian can be mesmerizing if it's cut into an interesting stone, I have a heart shaped Malachite set in a silver heart shaped setting (it looks especially gorgeous on dark solid black), I cut a cabochon from a really pretty Jasper, and Rhodocrosite is really pretty but I don't own any pieces using it and I haven't cut any myself.

Star Sapphires and Rubies
turmaline -the teal blue ones and the watermelon colored
but really I love all rocks, fossils, shells etc.
Had a really good collection of all of them until the house fire... :(

I love gem mining in NC and beach combing anywhere!